20th July 2022
St John’s Chambers hosted an extremely successful charity dinner on Thursday, 26th May at the Bristol Harbour Hotel, raising a fantastic sum of £5,700 for Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) who are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. This event was sponsored by Frenkel Topping Group, and was attended by over 160 legal professionals. Guests…
9th May 2022
St John’s Chambers would like to congratulate Sophie Howard in successfully completing her specialist third six pupillage under the supervision of Jimmy Barber. Sophie (Call 2016) joins our market-leading Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Inquest teams. Having successfully completed a common law pupillage at 5 Pump Court, Sophie then made the move to St John’s…
7th March 2022
Andrew McLaughlin has successfully defended a High Court clinical negligence claim against Betsi Cadwaladr Local Health Board brought by the widow of a man who committed suicide in the case of Williams v Betsi Cadwaladr Local Health Board [2022] EWHC 455 (QB). The claimant alleged (1) that the Health Board had inadequate arrangements for out…
1st March 2022
Dr Rachel Segal of St John’s Chambers has published the 2022 edition of the Denton Resource – an invaluable time-saving research aid for practitioners dealing with applications for relief from sanctions. This latest edition (covering relevant higher authorities reported up to 31 January 2022) now includes summaries of upwards of 300 cases in which the…
5th January 2022
St John’s Chambers are seeking applications from practitioners of 10 years’ call and above, to join our busy and dynamic Clinical Negligence team. Working co-operatively, sharing ideas, knowledge and business opportunities is at the forefront of our team. We are committed to providing all of our barristers with first class business development, and our clerking…
30th November 2021
On 29th November 2021, the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary published new guidance in relation to electronic court bundles (e-bundles) for court hearings. The November 2021 guidance replaces the previous guidance published in May 2020, and is subject to any specific guidance or directions provided from courts for individual cases. It will therefore be necessary to…
12th August 2021
St John’s Chambers is currently recruiting. We are particularly interested in applications from established personal injury and clinical negligence practitioners who wish to join our Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Inquests teams. Our barristers are recognised for their expertise, excellent advocacy, quality of service and client interaction. We provide a friendly workplace, and the opportunity…
3rd August 2021
We are pleased to announce that Marcus Coates-Walker and Robert Mills will be deputy heads of our Clinical Negligence team. Robert is a clinical negligence specialist with experience of litigation across a wide range of areas of medicine, with a particular interest in obstetrics, brain injuries, oncology, orthopaedics and cardiology. He is experienced in handling…
21st July 2021
We are pleased to announce that Matthew Phillips QC will be head of our Clinical Negligence team. Matthew was called to the Bar in 1993, and was appointed Silk in 2017. He represents both claimants and defendants nationally in a wide variety of claims of significant value. He has particular experience in the fields of…
13th July 2021
We are pleased to announce that Darren Lewis and Louise Asprey will be deputy heads of our Personal Injury team. Darren has over 17 years’ experience in personal injury law, and has developed a specialist defendant practice focusing on fundamental dishonesty, S57 & fraud in employers, public liability and industrial disease litigation. He represents local…
