LITTLEWOODS, Solicitors
Nicholas Millar is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and of the High Court of Hong Kong . He has always specialised in litigation or dispute resolution.
Nicholas Millar is a competent advocate and enjoys appearing before a variety of tribunals including Masters, District Court judges,High Court judges and arbitrators as well as, on occasion,statutory tribunals including the Coroner. He is admitted as a Higher Courts advocate in civil proceedings in both Hong Kong and in England and Wales. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an accredited mediator.
His extensive experience includes commercial disputes, construction and insurance claims together with more general common law and employment claims. In latter years he has dealt with many personal injury and medical negligence claims, particularly the latter.
He has an especial interest in the interaction of medicine and the law whether arising from medical negligence claims, mental health issues, rights of patients generally, regulatory issues, and related matters.He has acted in a diverse range of medical negligence(medical malpractice or clinical negligence) claims, including arising from obstetric claims and has acted for several "brain damaged babies". He is also interested in brain and spinal cord injuries and has acted for paraplegics and quadriplegics. Defendants against whom sucessful claims have been brought include the Hospital Authority, local doctors and hospitals, a cruise line company and the Hong Kong government.
He is a past chairman of the New Medico Legal Society of Hong Kong and is a member of various other organisations. He has given talks to both doctors and other professionals,as well as patients, parents of disabled children and representatives of N.G.O's.He has had several articles published and been heard on local radio.
He can be contacted on jnmillar@netvigator.com