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Christopher Briggs
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Work Department
Clinical and healthcare risk.
Position
Christopher has over 22 years experience in the healthcare sector. Following completion of his articles in Oxford he joined Hempsons and spent 15 years (eight as partner) advising medical practitioners and NHS Trusts. He specialised in high value clinical negligence claims, the duties and obligations of trusts in respect of patient confidentiality, and representation of doctors and dentists in disciplinary proceedings before the General Medical Council, the General Dental Council and also before the criminal courts. He was involved in the first instance cases of Bolitho v City and Hackney HA, and Salih v Enfield HA and advised several North West Trusts in the putative recombinant factor 8 litigation. He was also involved in defending several general practitioners in the benzodiazepine litigation. Following a period with former Hempsons partner Michael Ryan, where Christopher continued to represent medical practitioners in a wide variety of cases (Hall v Egdell, Wardlaw v Farrar (CA)), Christopher and his team joined the Healthcare team at DLA Piper in 2006 and continued to represent medical practitioners primarily on behalf of the Medical Defence Union. Christopher represented the defendant in Holt v Edge (CA) and also the first medical practitioner successfully to apply for restoration to the medical register following the introduction of the five year erasure rule. The DLA team moved to Halliwells in 2008 where Christopher led a four solicitor team specialising in both clinical negligence and disciplinary cases.
Career
Articles Herbert & Gowers, Oxford 1985-87; solicitor Hempsons 1987; partner 1995-03; solicitor Ryan Solicitors 2003-06; associate DLA Piper 2006-08; partner Halliwells LLP 2008-10; partner Beachcroft’s healthcare and clinical risk team 2010. Christopher has lectured on a number of healthcare related issues.
Member
Law Society; fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine; member of the Board of Clinical Practice of the Institute of Medicine Law and Bioethics at the University of Manchester (2002-03).
Education
Manchester University (1984 LLB Hons).
