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12 BYROM STREET
MANCHESTER
M3 4PP
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Sally Hatfield KC
Work Department
Clinical negligence; medical law; inquests; personal injuries.
Position
Specialist in medical law, principally in clinical negligence in cases involving injuries of maximum severity, such as birth injury, spinal or cauda equina injury, or other clinical conditions of great complexity or life-changing outcome.
Also has a personal injury practice, again particularly involving catastrophic injury or complex medical issues of causation.
Career
Called to the bar in 1988, practised at Doughty Street Chambers in London until a move to Manchester in 2000, where she became a tenant at Peel Court Chambers and then Byrom Street Chambers from 2008.
Appointed Silk in 2013.
Became a Recorder of the Crown Court in 2004, and of the County Court in 2015, Assistant Coroner for Manchester Central in 2008.
She lectures regularly on issues relating to clinical negligence, particularly on liability trials.
She is trained as an arbitrator with the PiCARBS scheme.
Languages
French
Memberships
PIBA, PNBA, INQUEST Lawyers’ Group, Human Rights Lawyers Association.
Education
Portsmouth High School; Lincoln College, Oxford (1986, BA Hons, Jurisprudence First Class).
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Sally Hatfield KC – Byrom Street Chambers ‘Sally is devastatingly effective in achieving successful outcomes in large conferences with experts and in negotiation with the defendant. She is fiercely intelligent and on top of her brief at all times, highly pragmatic in finding great solutions and in moving cases forward, and very efficient with her time and in turning around papers.’