Ewan Tant
Partner
Ewan specialises in asbestos-related disease claims, as well as silicosis claims, particularly those involving engineered stone
Ewan is a partner in the personal injury department.He is a recognised expert in asbestos claims.
What the directories say
He's brilliant, with a really good analytical mind.
Chambers and Partners 2024
Legal expertise
Ewan read History at the University of York, before completing his legal training and qualifying as a solicitor. He developed a particular interest in asbestos claims and worked in the industrial disease team at Boyes Turner from 2010 to 2013. Ewan joined Leigh Day in October 2013 and continues to specialise in cases involving asbestos exposure. Ewan also represents claimants with life changing industrial diseases, such as acute silicosis.
He has successfully represented many claimants who had been exposed to asbestos and subsequently developed asbestos-related injuries, such as mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer and pleural thickening. Ewan has had many successes in claims involving tricky and novel points of law. Ewan is a particular specialist in settling claims with provision for future medical treatment costs, particularly immunotherapy.
Ewan has represented people who have been exposed to asbestos in many different lines of work, including construction workers, engineers, laggers, demolition workers, shipyard and railway workers, carpenters, plumbers, painters and decorators, electricians, paper mill workers, teachers, shop workers, carers, nurses, doctors and laboratory assistants. Ewan has also acted for many asbestos sufferers who came into contact with asbestos by way of family members, including spouses, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters whose work clothes had been contaminated with asbestos.
Ewan acts quickly where claimants have a short life expectancy. He has secured compensation for clients as quickly as within three months of the first visit.
Ewan regularly deals with cross-jurisdictional cases, including cases in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Spain and Japan.
Membership
Ewan is accredited as a Senior Litigator, and as an occupational disease specialist and asbestos disease specialist, by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. He has spoken at medical and legal seminars, including providing a case study for a Roy Castle Lung Cancer Patient Information Day in Plymouth.
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Accreditations
Dorset family receive six-figure settlement from Poole Hospital trust following retired porter’s death from asbestos-related cancer
The family of retired Poole Hospital porter Geoffrey King, have received a six-figure settlement following his death from asbestos related cancer.
Witness appeal from family of former firework maker after death from asbestos cancer
The family of a Kent woman who may have been exposed to asbestos when she worked making fireworks in a hut damaged by the Great Storm of 1987 are appealing for witnesses.
Stonemason quits job to “save his life” after being diagnosed with silicosis linked to working on engineered stone kitchen worktops
A stonemason from Ipswich, Suffolk says he had to quit his job to “save his life” after medical experts effectively warned that continuing to work with engineered stone, or quartz, could destroy his lungs.