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David Body
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Work Department
Personal injury.
Position
Partner specialising in medical negligence and product liability cases for claimants; cases include: Maynard v West Midlands RHA; Bolitho v City and Hackney HA; Aboul Hosn v Trustees of National Hospital for Nervous Diseases; Hopkins v McKenzie; the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Litigation Group A; R v North Derbyshire HA ex parte Fisher; ‘K’ v Plymouth HA; the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Litigation Group B; representing families of variant CJD victims at the BSE inquiry; negotiating the terms of the v CJD compensation trust; presently implementing the terms of the CJD no fault compensation scheme; Re Jonathan Simms (treatment decision).
Career
Articled DJ Freeman and Co; qualified 1981; Halls 1981-91, partner 1984; partner Irwin Mitchell 1991; member executive committee: APIL 1989-91; chair Medical Negligence Group: APIL; publications: chapter on ‘The Conduct of Proceedings’; Powers and Harris ‘Medical Negligence’ (1st and 2nd edition; 3rd edition with Charles Gillott) – ‘Review of Civil and Criminal Liability of Anaesthetists’ (published British Journal of Anaesthesia August 1994); chapter on ‘The CJD Litigation’ for ‘Multi-Party Actions’ OUP (2001); article on ‘Redress for CJD’, Clinical Risk January 2005 (with Jonathan Glasson).
Member
AVMA Lawyers Support Group; APIL; Law Society Medical Negligence Panel (Member and Assessor) ATLA and ATLA Birth Trauma Litigation Group.
Education
Hereford High School; Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1976 BA Hons).
Leisure
Savouring the renaissance of Welsh Rugby, taking blurred photographs.
Practice Areas
Clinical negligence - claimant; Personal injury - claimant; Product liability
