Jane Tracy Forster > Hailsham Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile
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CHAMBERS OF JULIAN PICTON QC
4 PAPER BUILDINGS, TEMPLE
EC4Y 7EX
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Jane Tracy Forster
Position
Jane specialises in medical law including clinical negligence claims and applications in the Court of Protection relating to the medical care of patients lacking capacity. She is also instructed in diverse employment and disciplinary disputes, usually for the employers, and in catastrophic personal injury claims.
In the clinical negligence field, her instructions emanate from claimant firms, panel firms of the NHSLA and medical defence societies and insurers of private hospitals. In recent years, her employment practice has developed in relation to the education sector. She has represented many colleges and universities in tribunal, High Court and internal disciplinary proceedings. She is particularly interested in the interface between disciplinary processes relating to the employment of medical and allied professionals.
She is a trained mediator and is experienced in the use of mediation in all her fields of interest. Jane has also been instructed in several inquests involving deaths in hospital. She is ranked as a leading junior in the field of clinical negligence in both The Legal 500 and Chambers UK. In 2017, Jane was shortlisted for Legal 500’s Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence Junior of the Year Award.
Career
Called 1975, Inner Temple.
Memberships
Professional Negligence Bar Association; Personal Injuries Bar Association; Employment Law Bar Association.
Education
LLB (Hons).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Jane Tracy Forster –Hailsham Chambers ‘Jane is meticulous and thorough with her analysis of records and expert evidence; and can really identify the nub of a case with ease.’
The ‘first-class’ clinical negligence barristers at Hailsham Chambers are ‘experts in their field’, acting for claimants and defendants. The set also has professional negligence and inquest practices, and members are experienced in mediation. Alexander Hutton KC was recently involved in the case of HM v Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – acting for the trust in an claim against them involving complications in an operation which led to brain damage. Tejina Mangat has experience in maximum severity injury cases, with significant medical expertise; Jane Tracy Forster has substantial experience in birth asphyxia claims, including claims involving cerebral palsy.