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Dr Peter Ellis

02076435000 peter.ellis@hailshamchambers.com

Position

Dr Peter Ellis joined Hailsham Chambers in January 2018. He is ranked by the Legal 500 (Tier 1) and Chambers & Partners (Band 1) as a leading junior in clinical negligence at the London Bar. Legal 500, 2021 say: ‘He gives thorough, well considered advice born of many years’ experience.’

Dr Peter Ellis is instructed by many of the UK’s leading firms on complex clinical negligence cases, including obstetric and other brain and spinal cord injury claims. His practice benefits from his experience as a former hospital doctor specialising in internal medicine, and as a former solicitor at DAC Beachcroft. Dr Ellis is also a CEDR trained mediator, and is experienced at representing parties at round table settlement conferences and other forms of ADR.

Dr Ellis is in great demand for his expertise in relation to coroners’ inquests, where he uses his experience as a former Assistant Coroner in London for 20 years’. He is regularly instructed in complex healthcare cases, including cases involving medicinal products and devices, and deaths in nursing homes. He also undertakes cases involving workplace accidents and road traffic accidents, where issues of sub-standard medical treatment arise. He has represented bereaved families, healthcare providers, employers, insurers, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and company officers. He undertakes a significant amount of related fatal accident litigation.

Career

Year of call: 1997

Memberships

• Professional Negligence & Personal Injuries Bar Associations
• Coroners’ Society of England & Wales
• Inquest Lawyers Group
• Medico-Legal Society
• Society of Doctors in Law
• Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of London
• Royal Society of Medicine
• Royal Navy Medical Club

Education

• Royal Hospital School, Ipswich, Suffolk
• St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London University, Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery (MB.BS, Waller & Morris Prizes)
• Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, Diploma in Medical History (DHMSA)
• Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of London (MRCP(UK))
• Westminster University, Diploma in Law
• College of Law, Solicitors’ Final Examination (2nd class honours)
• Centre for Dispute Resolution, accredited mediator