Clinical negligence
Members of chambers have experience in all areas of clinical negligence, including cases involving injuries at birth, catastrophic brain damage, and injuries from pharmaceuticals. A team of leaders and juniors can be assembled to deal with any case.
The current edition of the Legal 500 recommends the 'innovative' Allan Gore QC, and Frank Burton QC for their respective clinical negligence practices.
Members of chambers have also advised in relation to complaints and disciplinary proceedings.
Ronald Walker QC sits as President of Mental Health Review Tribunals.
Members of chambers have been involved in the following recent cases:
Rahman v Arearose [2001] QB 351 - Correct approach to apportionment between original tortfeasor and negligent treating hospital;
Ling v (1) Test Valley Borough Council (2) Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust [2003] EWHC 490 - Employers liability for accident leading to clinical negligence at hospital, namely failure to diagnose and treat pneumonia leading to rare complication of paraplegia;
Kinnear v Falconfilms NV - Substantial clinical negligence action concerning the death of an actor from injuries sustained from an accident on a foreign film set;
Various Claimants v Ledward & East Kent Health Authority - 60 women making claims against three health authorities in Kent arising out of severe sexual abuse at the hands of the disgraced gynaecologist Rodney Ledward;
LSD group litigation (ongoing) (arising out of the medical use of LSD therapy in psychiatry between 1950 and 1970);
Breast radiation injury group litigation - Group action for over 130 women injured by excessive radiotherapy in treatment of breast cancer;
Riddell v Wessex Regional Health Authority and Camden and Islington Health Authority (2003) - Failure to diagnose fracture of odontontoid peg leading to tetraplegia.
Barringer v Ashford & St Peter's Hospital NHS Trust (2005)- Cerebral palsy case - £1.8 million plus periodical payments.