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Charlotte Jones
Position
Barrister specialising in clinical negligence, acting for claimants and defendant health authorities, NHS trusts, private hospitals and medical defence organisations in all types of clinical practice. Particular interests include cases involving catastrophic birth injuries, oncological treatment, spinal surgery, brain injury, psychiatric care and anaesthetics. Recent cases include: eight day High Court trial successfully defending a hospital’s post operative care of a patient who suffered a fatal bleed following colorectal surgery; successfully defending a trust’s care of a psychiatric patient who absconded from the ward before a formal assessment of mental state; successfully acting for claimants injured at birth by failure to monitor their condition in labour. Ongoing cases include acting for claimants in unsuccessful back surgery; delayed diagnosis of cancer; acting for defendants in cases of brain damage peri operatively; paraplegia following epidural anaesthesia. Numerous quantum assessments including valuing high-value catastrophic injuries, advising on periodical payments, indexation and funding of care.
Career
Called 1982, Middle Temple. Sits as a Recorder in crime and civil cases.
Memberships
Professional Negligence Bar Association; LCL and CBA.
Education
Queen’s School Chester; Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1981 MA Law).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Charlotte Jones –Crown Office Chambers ‘Incredibly intelligent with great attention to detail and a terrific advocate.’
Fielding ‘some excellent KCs’, along with its ‘strength in depth, particularly in defence work’, the clinical negligence counsel at Crown Office Chambers are involved in a range of complex and high-value cases. Alexander Antelme KC, for example, represented NHS Resolution in GHK v King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a case pertaining to a liver transplant performed on a 7-month old, in which liability and quantum was in dispute – the matter settled. Charlotte Jones was notably active in Paul, Polmear and Purchase v Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust and others, a leading case in clinical negligence that reached the Supreme Court testing the law on claims by individuals who suffered psychiatric injuries after watching a loved one coming to harm as a result of negligence.