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Gerard Boyle KC KC
Position
Gerry is a recognised specialist in medical and police law. His medical work includes regular appearances on behalf of practitioners before various regulatory bodies, including the General Medical Council, General Dental Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council. He is also frequently instructed by the Medical Defence organisations (MDU, MPS, MDDUS), the NHSLA and leading Claimant clinical negligence solicitors in civil actions and Inquests. Gerry’s police practice covers the full spectrum of police work. He regularly represents the Metropolitan Police and other forces in high-profile police disciplinary and appeal tribunals. He has extensive experience in police civil actions and Inquests arising from fatal firearms operations and deaths in custody. He is accustomed to giving tactical advice and advice concerning the use of information, handling covert human intelligence sources, the actions of under cover police officers and duty of care issues generally.
Career
Called 1992; Gray’s Inn.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Gerard Boyle KC – Serjeants’ Inn Chambers ‘A commanding advocate with an uncanny ability to get the court on side.’
Serjeants’ Inn Chambers garners praise from clients as ‘excellent as a whole in respect of professional disciplinary and regulatory law’. Gerard Boyle KC is ‘superb on his feet and grasps the intricacies of the case very quickly‘, and Sarah Clarke KC is ‘an absolute master at cross-examination‘. Jonathan Holl-Allen KC, who is head of the team in chambers, has an established track record in representing medical and dental practitioners in disciplinary proceedings. Among the juniors, Anthony Haycroft garners praise for being ‘one of the finest barristers when it comes to handling complex cases before the medical regulators‘, and David Morris is a highly regarded senior junior, with solid expertise in defending healthcare practitioners.
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Gerard Boyle KC –Serjeants’ Inn Chambers ‘Gerard is a leader in the field, a brilliant advocate, tactically astute, incredibly personable and good with clients.’
London Bar > Police law (forces and constables)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Gerard Boyle KC –Serjeants’ Inn Chambers ‘Gerard is an extremely able and hardworking advocate. He has an ability to communicate clearly with even the most difficult of clients, provides realistic advice in a courteous but straightforward way. His advocacy is well-structured, eloquent and effective.’
Serjeants’ Inn Chambers is ‘a stand out set,’ with a ‘first class team,’ involved in cases at all levels and all areas of police law. The breadth and depth of the set’s members’ practice covers judicial reviews, misconduct and misfeasance cases, and a large range of advisory work in addition. Dijen Basu KC instructed on a death in custody inquest representing Great Manchester Police after a man died in custody, following a physical struggle with police, after a cocaine overdose. Gerard Boyle KC successfully defended a judicial review of the decision to not dismiss Robyn Williams, a Metropolitan Police superintendent who was convicted of possessing indecent images of children after having received, but not viewed, an unsolicited video of a girl engaged in sexual activity with an adult male. James Berry represented the British Transport Police in an Investigatory Powers Tribunal claim arising from surveillance of a police officer suspected of conducting an affair while on duty, successfully arguing that the IPT does not have jurisdiction to hear the claim because it was during a misconduct investigation.