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Sally Smith KC
Work Department
Associate Member / Barrister
Position
Areas of practice include medical law (including extensive experience of GMC disciplinary work), clinical negligence (claimant and defendant) and personal injury; special interest in class actions; cases include: Benzodiazepine group action, representing health authorities; RAGE group action (Breast cancer) representing health authorities; Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust organ retention inquiry and group litigation representing the National Health Service Litigation Authority; prosecution of Dr Wakefield and two colleagues in GMC; mid-Staffs hospital public inquiry.
Career
Call: 1977; Inner Temple; KC: 1997.
Sat on pilot committee for new GMC rules -defective performance in doctors advised Royal College of Physicians on legal aspects of guidelines on valvular heart disease; past member of St Thomas’ Hospital Ethics Committee; past member of the Royal College of Physicians Ethic Committee; past member of the Medical Research Council Ethics Committee; past member of the UK Biotanks Ethics and Governance Council.
Memberships
Professional Negligence Bar Association.
Education
London University (LLB).