St John’s Chambers

Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Inquests & Public Inquiries

Call: 2024

Michael is a barrister specialising in clinical negligence, inquest, and personal injury.

Before coming to the Bar, Michael worked as a doctor, predominantly in hospital medicine and surgery. He also continues to work as a lay chair for the General Dental Council’s education team. Michael draws on this medical, surgical, and dental experience in his work:

• First-hand experience of NHS workplace culture is particularly helpful in NHS employer’s liability claims, in which Michael is frequently instructed.

• In clinical negligence (and when handling all medical evidence), Michael’s medical knowledge enables him to quickly grasp complex factual problems and to test expert and lay evidence.

• Further, through his work as a doctor, Relevant Person’s Representative (RPR) and Independent Health Complaints Advocate, Michael has developed the skills to establish good client rapport quickly and to provide sensible, accessible advice on complex issues.

Michael is regularly instructed in a broad range of clinical negligence, dental negligence, inquest, and personal injury work, in and out of court.

Michael has experience drafting particulars of claim, defences, skeleton arguments, advices on quantum and liability, schedules and counter-schedules, and advising in conference.

Michael welcomes instructions across the full spectrum of work undertaken by the team.

• PIBA

• Formerly president of the South Yorkshire Medico Legal Society

• BSc, MBChB, PGCertMedEd, MA, BPC