28th May 2020
As you may be aware, the Designated Circuit Judges on the Western Circuit have drawn up a Protocol to apply to fast and multi track trials listed between 1 June and 1 October 2020. A copy is attached in case you have not as yet seen it. The idea is to try to get trials…
1st April 2020
In Whittingham Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14 the Supreme Court has decisively over-ruled the earlier Court of Appeal decision in Briody v St Helen’s and Knowsley Area Health Authority [2001] EWCA Civ 1010 and held that the costs of surrogacy using donor eggs and foreign commercial surrogacy costs were recoverable as a…
25th March 2020
Barrister: James Marwick The Coronavirus Bill was published Thursday 23rd March and it is before Parliament this week. It is an extraordinary piece of legislation which will introduce wide ranging emergency provisions aimed at addressing the unprecedented public health crisis presented by the covid-19 pandemic. The situation is constantly evolving and this article simply serves to…
10th February 2020
We are pleased to announce that Dr Rachel Segal of St John’s Chambers has produced the latest edition of the Denton Resource – an invaluable time-saving aid for practitioners finding themselves on either side of relief from sanctions applications. The Resource summarises relevant recent judgments in the higher courts of England and Wales on relief…
27th November 2019
St John’s Chambers sponsored the University of West of England (UWE) 2019 Mooting Competition, and on Thursday, 21st November was the final of the three stage mooting competition at UWE, with the results being announced. The winner was Monica Young and the runner up, Ella White who have both received a mini pupillage experience at…
17th October 2019
Rhodri Jones and David Forster successfully completed their specialist pupillages within St John’s Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence teams, and were accepted as full tenants in October 2019. Rhodri is now building on his experience to develop a broad practice acting for both claimants and defendants in small claim and fast-track cases. He is experienced in…
28th August 2019
Andrew McLaughlin has successfully defended a clinical negligence claim against a professor of colorectal surgery who was accused of dividing a ureter of a patient during laparoscopic surgery to remove cancer from his bowel which was found in the rectum. Andrew was instructed by Cwm Taf University Local Health Board, and the case was heard…
23rd May 2019
Justin Valentine reviews the issues of consent in clinical negligence cases in, and subsequent to, the case of Montgomery. He examines the extension of the Montgomery principle, to advice-giving in general in clinical settings and the renewed focus on causation as it relates to consent in the case of Duce v Worcestershire which suggests that…
14th January 2019
Marcus Coates-Walker, Barrister at St John’s Chambers and Ali Cloak, Associate Solicitor at Royds Withy King are raising money for medical accidents charity, AvMA UK by taking part in London’s Big Half Marathon, ‘Vitality Big Half 2019’ on 10 March. AvMA UK is the leading patient safety charity in the UK, they help people get the…
8th January 2019
On Wednesday 13th February 2019 AvMA (action against medical accidents) will be coming to Bristol to host their ‘Experts and Lawyers – Working Better Together’ CPD seminar, where two of St John’s Chambers Clinical Negligence barristers will be speaking. Christopher Sharp QC will examine witness and expert evidence, looking at the choice of expert, the report and…
