Ms Heather Beckett > Chambers of Roderick Johnson KC and Victoria Wilson > London, England > Barrister Profile

Ms Heather Beckett

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Work Department

Civil

Position

Barrister

Career

Heather had a successful career as an NHS Hospital Consultant before being called to the Bar. She was also for many years a highly sought-after expert witness in Restorative Dentistry in clinical negligence and regulatory Fitness to Practice proceedings.

Her legal practice is focused on civil work, with a specialist emphasis on medical and particularly dental negligence, personal injury and disciplinary regulatory matters before the healthcare regulators, GMC, GDC, HCPC and NMC. Heather’s in-depth dental and medical knowledge and practical experience in addition to her ability to assess and test expert witness evidence proves particularly valuable at the assessment and pre-action stages of litigation for Claimants and Defendants alike. For more information, see www.dentalbarrister.co.uk

Heather is an experienced mediation advocate in clinical and professional negligence claims as well as contractual matters.  She has undertaken mediation training with the London School of Mediation.

She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Dentistry of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a former Clinical Panel member for the Dental Complaints Service and a trained volunteer Gateway Assessor for the Citizens Advice Bureau.

Heather is able to accept instructions on a direct access basis.

Memberships

• Association of Personal Injury Lawyers

Education

• BPTC (Very Competent), Kaplan Law School (2012-2013)
• Advocacy scholarship, Kaplan Law School (2012)
• Graduate LLB, Nottingham Trent University (2013)
• GDL (Distinction), Nottingham Trent University (2010-2012)
• LLM (Distinction), Medical Law & Ethics, De Montfort University (2010)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Evidence-Based Practice (Distinction) Portsmouth University (2005)
• Dental qualifications – BDS; FDS, RCS (Eng.); MSc.