2 Temple Gardens

Clinical & lawyer’s negligence. Catastrophic injury. Medical Research & Product Liability. Insurance. Specialist in complex clinical & legal issues.

Clinical negligence: Williams (Privy Council. Material contribution causation); Woods (Antenatal CTG interpretation); Colley (Fundamental Dishonesty in multi-£m claim. Discontinued. Successful contempt application for Litigation Friend); ISD (Congenital syphilis causing catastrophic brain damage); MZN (secondary victim liability to natural mother in context of surrogate birth); Maytum (Causation. Obverse of Gregg v Scott). Negotiated settlements in numerous £20m-£40m cerebral palsy claims, including atypical clauses in Periodical Payment Orders and variable PPOs.

Lawyers negligence: Whitehead (CofA. Underlying wrongful birth claim. Novel issues: duty of care to father; when events after notional trial can be taken into account).

Personal Injury: Mohammed (£7.5m multiple-injury RTA & fundamental dishonesty); Mather (material contribution causation in multiple sclerosis); Merrett (£14m brain damage. Pre-existing tetraplegia. ‘Injury-on-injury damages’; non-delegable duty; vicarious liability for agency nurses); Lyons (Psychiatric injury. Material contribution causation cf Jobling).

Insurance: Willsher (£2m PHI claim. Discontinued after cross-X of claimant); Miley (CofA. Meaning of dishonesty).

Medical Research and Product liability: Trans-vaginal and abdominal mesh claims; Experimental laser therapy; Alleged inappropriate recruitment into Pre-Term Birth research.

Member of: Gene Therapy Advisory Committee (to 2009); Human Genetics Commission (to 2012); National Research Ethics Advisory Panel (to 2012). Expert witness to House of Lords Science & Technology Committee (cloning, employment and insurance in genetics).

PNBA (former Chair of executive committee)

Publications

Medical Ethics and Genetics, in Powers and Harris, Clinical Negligence (2008)