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Alastair Wright
Work Department
Clinical Negligence
Personal Injury
Disease
Position
Alastair acts for both Claimants and Defendants in Personal Injury and Professional Negligence work, but has an exclusively Claimant practice in Clinical Negligence. He has represented clients before all levels of the Judiciary, including the House of Lords.
His PI work encompasses maximum severity head and spinal injury litigation and his clinical negligence work includes cerebral palsy and other birth injury as well as surgical mismanagement.
Alistair is Head of the Industrial Disease Litigation Group at St John’s Building’s.
Career
Called 1991; Lincoln’s Inn.
Memberships
Personal Injury Bar Association
Northern Circuit Medical Law Association
Education
Hulme Grammar School, Oldham; Oxford University (1988 BA; MA); Polytechnic of Central London (1990 Diploma in Law).
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Alastair Wright – St John’s Buildings ‘Alastair has a calm and reassuring manner in even the most challenging of cases. As a result, he is greatly appreciated by clients, and his straightforward approach makes him a very impressive advocate.’
St John’s Buildings is praised as ‘an excellent chambers providing a good selection of solid barristers in the clinical negligence field’. One such member is Philip Grundy, who has significant expertise in handling cases around consent and cauda equina, in addition to delayed diagnosis of illnesses. The set is also home to Henry Vanderpump, who works almost exclusively for claimants, and his cases often involve complex surgical procedures and delayed cancer diagnoses. Like Vanderpump, Richard Norton also focuses on claimant work, especially cases regarding surgical negligence and negligent post-operative care. Alastair Wright has a well-established clinical negligence practice, and Rebecca Titus-Cobb is another notable name, acting for claimants and defendants, including NHS trusts.
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Personal injury
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Alastair Wright – St John’s Buildings ‘It is always an absolute pleasure to work alongside Alastair. He has a calm and reassuring manner in even the most challenging of cases, and as a result, he is greatly appreciated by clients. His straightforward approach makes him a very impressive advocate.’