Areas of Work

Clinical Negligence and Healthcare Law

Clinical negligence is strongly represented in chambers with members of the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Group acting for both claimants and defendants at first instance and in the appellate courts.

On the claimant side we work for publicly funded as well as trades union clients and undertake CFA work.

On the defence side, we act for NHS Trusts and Health Authorities as well as GPs and other individual healthcare professionals.

We have experience of all aspects of clinical negligence from consent to limitation, from low value dental cases to high value birth injuries, from screening errors to failed sterilisations and from assault to psychiatric injuries sustained by secondary victims.

In the wider field of healthcare law, we have experience of disciplinary matters relating to serious professional misconduct as well as fitness to practise, issues of confidentiality and disclosure of records and public enquiries, for example Shipman and Kerr Haslam (an NHS Inquiry into the handling of complaints of sexual misconduct against two psychiatrists).

There is a strong commitment to pro bono work and our clinical negligence specialists are particularly aware of the difficulties faced by families who have suffered a bereavement as a result of clinical error but who cannot obtain public funding for the inquest.

Chambers is a member of AVMA.