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Mr Jeremy Roussak

Position

Jeremy practices almost exclusively in the fields of personal injury and clinical negligence.

Career

Jeremy practices almost exclusively in the fields of personal injury and clinical negligence. He qualified as a doctor in 1983 and worked in hospital medicine for more than ten years before being called to the Bar. He underwent training in general surgery, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and then specialised in surgery of the heart and chest.

Jeremy is instructed on cases of all values, including very high value claims involving catastrophic injury at birth or in road traffic accidents. He is particularly interested in cases arising out of fatal accidents, in which damages are claimed for dependency, and those involving analysis of future loss where career progress was uncertain.

From February 2008 to April 2010 Jeremy was Counsel to the Redfern Inquiry into human tissue analysis in UK nuclear facilities. This was a government inquiry into “body snatching” by the nuclear industry. The report was presented to the House of Commons on 16th November 2010.

Jeremy was appointed to the Attorney-General’s provincial panel of Counsel in 2002 and re-appointed in 2007 and 2012. He has appeared on behalf of government departments, including the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Justice, in personal injury and clinical negligence cases and at inquests.

Memberships

Personal Injuries Bar Association (PIBA)

Professional Negligence Bar Association (PNBA)

Treasurer, Northern Circuit Medical Law Association (NCMLA)

Education

St John’s College, Cambridge: BA 1980 (medical sciences); BChir 1983; MA, MB 1984

Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: Fellow 1988

City University: Diploma in Law 1995