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Janice Barber
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Work Department
Regulatory and healthcare.
Position
Hempsons’ managing partner, Janice Barber has experience in many areas of healthcare law; specialises in regulatory and employment law, data protection and information law. Leading cases in which Janice has been involved include R v Cox [1992], manslaughter, euthanasia, acting for the defendant; Howard v Dorset Health Authority [1993], hospital negligence, applicability of res ipsa loquitur principle in clinical negligence cases, for the defendant; Thomson v Black-James CA [1997], re foreseeability; Gryf-Lowczowski v Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust [2005] EWHC 2407 (HCL) QB; Stanley Royd Hospital Inquiry, salmonella inquiry, led to the lifting of crown immunity for hospital kitchens 1984; Orkney Child Abuse Inquiry [1991]; defended Mr Ledward in HC(90)0 GMC proceedings and prosecuted Mr Steven Walker Blackpool; United Leeds Hospital v Duncan Walker [1997], inquiry under HSG(95)25 and subsequent appeal to the Secretary of State; 2000 BSE inquiry; 2004, the Neale and Haslam inquiries. She was a member of the Chief Medical Officer’s Revalidation Advisory Group, which led to the publication of ‘Good Doctors, Safer Patients – proposals to strengthen the system to assure and improve the performance of doctors and to protect the safety of patients’ (2007) and a member of the Department of Health Working Party on Tackling Concerns Locally, sitting on the sub-group which reviewed the Performers Lists and chairing the Information Management sub-group.
Career
Articled Hempsons; qualified 1983; partner Hempsons since 1984; currently conducts seminars and lectures in all her specialist areas of practice.
Education
University of Reading (1978 BA Hons first class); UCL (postgraduate diploma in employment law); King’s College, London (2005 postgraduate diploma in European law).
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Employment; Healthcare
