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1 Crown Office Row
TEMPLE, LONDON
EC4Y 7HH
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Rachel Marcus
Position
Rachel Marcus has developed a specialised healthcare practice. She acts in high-value clinical negligence matters, including birth injury and spinal injury claims.
She is a highly experienced inquest advocate, appearing on behalf of both families and healthcare providers in inquests involving hospital and mental health settings, prisons and the community. Rachel is experienced in front of juries and in Article 2 inquests.
She also acts in the Court of Protection on behalf of the Official Solicitor as well as healthcare providers and funders, and in the Mental Health Review Tribunal, as well as in the various healthcare disciplinary tribunals.
Career
Call: 2005; Inner Temple (exhibitioner; Pegasus scholarship).
Co-author with Philip Havers KC and Kate Beattie of the chapter on Human Rights in ‘Clinical Negligence’, forthcoming 3rd edition (Powers and Harris, eds); co-author with Caroline Cross of the chapter Public Accountability: Public Law, Public Participation and Access to Information in ‘Environmental Law’ 3rd ed (Burnett Hall and Jones, eds); contributor of five chapters to the forthcoming ‘Inquest Casebook’ (Hart Publishing, 2014); contributor to 1COR’s UK Human Rights blog.
Languages
Fluent French, German, Hebrew.
Memberships
PIBA; HRLA; ALBA; Liberty; UKELA; Medical Justice; AvMA’s Lawyers Services.
Education
Chesterton Community College and Hills Road Sixth Form College; Magdalen College, Oxford (BA First Class Hons Modern Languages); Institut des Etudes Politiques, Paris (Diplôme international de sciences politiques et sociales).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Rachel Marcus – 1 Crown Office Row ‘A punchy, pragmatic advocate.’
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Rachel Marcus –1 Crown Office Row ‘Rachel takes the time to think things through when handling a difficult inquest.’