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Mr Anthony Haycroft
Work Department
Professional disciplinary and regulatory law (including police law), crime and common law (especially personal injury and clinical negligence).
Position
Extensive experience in trials involving civil and criminal jurisdictions, as well as a busy advisory practice in all areas. Mainly practices in the regulatory field, defending doctors, dentists and pharmacists in disciplinary work at the General Medical Council; General Dentist Council and General Pharmaceutical Council respectively, police misconduct cases and appears for hospitals and doctors at inquests as well as at internal disciplinary hearings. Substantial criminal experience of over 30 years (including as a Grade 4 prosecutor taking leading briefs in murder, fraud and sexual offences cases) used in defending healthcare professionals against criminal charges. Clinical negligence and personal injury practice covers both claimant and defendant work. Leading cases include: Monibi v GMC (2014) – dishonesty in regulatory cases; Re Shaw (2014) – Inquest bias; R v Bell [2010] EWCA Crim CA – double jeopardy, Chaaban v R (2003) C.L.R 658 CA – precursor to case management. Also experience of representing directors in directors disqualification proceedings.
Career
Called 1982; Middle Temple. Registered Pupil Master.
Memberships
PIBA; CBA; HSLA; ARDL.
Education
Southend High School for Boys; University of Reading (1979 LLB Hons 2(1)); Wadham College, Oxford (BCL 2(1); CLE 2(1)).
Leisure
Fitness, skiing, classic cars, hockey player and qualified coach, trustee of inner city hockey charity taking hockey into primary schools.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Anthony Haycroft – Serjeants’ Inn Chambers ‘A superb advocate who provides excellent tactical advice.’
Serjeants’ Inn Chambers garners praise from clients as ‘excellent as a whole in respect of professional disciplinary and regulatory law’. Gerard Boyle KC is ‘superb on his feet and grasps the intricacies of the case very quickly‘, and Sarah Clarke KC is ‘an absolute master at cross-examination‘. Jonathan Holl-Allen KC, who is head of the team in chambers, has an established track record in representing medical and dental practitioners in disciplinary proceedings. Among the juniors, Anthony Haycroft garners praise for being ‘one of the finest barristers when it comes to handling complex cases before the medical regulators‘, and David Morris is a highly regarded senior junior, with solid expertise in defending healthcare practitioners.