Cases
T v Barnsley Hospital NHS Trust (2024)
St John’s Chambers is one of the ‘go-to’ clinical negligence sets on the Western Circuit and beyond.”
Clinical Negligence
- Client Quotes
“I use St John’s Chambers a great deal for all my clinical negligence cases. They have a large number of very competent and experienced clinical negligence barristers all of whom I trust, and find brilliant. They provide excellent training courses.”
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St John’s Chambers is the leading clinical negligence set in the South West with an enviable reputation for the breadth of expertise within this specialist team. We advise and represent clients nationally in the full range of cases, from minor injuries to catastrophic injuries and death. We are praised by instructing solicitors as “a fantastic set with very strong barristers.”
Our clinical negligence barristers have detailed medical as well as legal knowledge to provide the best possible result in every dispute. Our set can cover claims in a number of medical areas including those involving; doctors, nurses, dentists and other healthcare professionals. We pride ourselves on our sensitive, pragmatic approach to cases ranging from pharmacology and medical product liability claims to GP and dental negligence with our clerks always providing a professional, friendly service.
We act for both claimants and defendants, and work on behalf of a wide range of clients including private individuals, NHS Trusts and Health Boards, Ambulance Trusts, medical defence organisations, government bodies, and private medical and related institutions, in complex and high-value disputes and in clinical negligence inquest proceedings.
Areas of particular expertise for the team include cases arising from surgical negligence, dental negligence and failures in diagnosis. Members are also regularly instructed in obstetric and neonatal injury, gynaecology and fatal accident claims.
Our clinical negligence barristers also appear in a variety of healthcare related tribunals such as those covering professional negligence, personal injury and Court of Protection hearings.
Our expertise includes:
- All cases in which complex issues of medical and legal causation arise
- Catastrophic injuries
- Surgical negligence
- Misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis claims
- Obstetric, neonatal and perinatal injuries
- Cardiology
- Nephrology
- Coloproctology
- Oncology
- Gynaecology
- Pharmacology and medical product liability claims
- GP and dental negligence
- Ophthalmic cases
Our team also provide representation at Coroners’ Inquests and Public Inquiries in which death has followed medical treatment.
Our Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Clerking team won ‘Team of the Year 2023’ by Bristol Law Society.
Our Clerking team enjoy a national reputation for the reliable, helpful and efficient service they provide to clients, always going that extra mile. The clerks headed up by Adam Marston and Hugh Maguire and their team, Lara Hanney and Jordan Yandell, are consistently praised for their high standard client service in Chambers UK and The Legal 500.
Training
We are committed to providing training to the wider legal and medical communities, and we design and deliver many seminars and workshops; we are always happy to provide bespoke training to meet your team’s individual needs. Please contact Adam Marston or Hugh Maguire to discuss the extensive portfolio of workshops and bespoke seminars that we offer clients.
Conditional Fee Agreements
Barristers are happy to act under Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) where appropriate.
Public Access
Some barristers accept instructions direct from members of the public under our Direct Access to a barrister programme.
View our Clinical Negligence digital book here for further details about how we can help you.
Clinical Negligence Team
Christopher Sharp KC
- Call: 1975
- Silk: 1999
Matthew Phillips KC
- Call: 1993
- Silk: 2017
Richard Stead
- Call: 1979
Andrew McLaughlin
- Call: 1993
Justin Valentine
- Call: 1999
Louise Asprey
- Call: 2007
Patrick West
- Call: 2007
Jimmy Barber
- Call: 2008
James Marwick
- Call: 2008
Ben Handy
- Call: 2008
James Hughes
- Call: 2011
Rachel Segal
- Call: 2013
Sophie Howard
- Call: 2016
Jonathan Lindfield
- Call: 2017
Rhodri Jones
- Call: 2017
Lauren Karmel
- Call: 2017
David Forster
- Call: 2018
Tara-Lynn Poole
- Call: 2019
Beatrice Baskett
- Call: 2021
Directory Quotes
Always able to provide a simplistic and easy to follow format, despite cases being complex. This helps to then advise clients on their claim and give them a better understanding of the legal implications.”
St John’s Chambers is well regarded for its expert representation of both claimants and defendants, including several NHS trusts, medical defence organisations and private individuals, in complex and high-value disputes and in clinical negligence inquest proceedings.”
St John’s Chambers is well regarded for its expert representation in complex and high-value disputes in clinical negligence and inquest proceedings. Barristers are very analytical and able to forensically examine expert reports in conference.”
The clerks are helpful and get things done quickly. They are very responsive and go out of their way to help.”
A ‘go-to set’ in the South West for clinical negligence.”
The clerks are fantastic. The clerks are always very on the ball and have always been very helpful, approachable and friendly.”
St John’s Chambers is well regarded for its expert representation of both claimants and defendants, including several NHS trusts, medical defence organisations and private individuals, in complex and high-value disputes and in clinical negligence inquest proceedings.”
The clerks are very on the ball and are always very helpful, approachable and friendly. The team all work like a well-oiled machine and they always call you back. The set provides an excellent clerking service – it is prompt, efficient and personable.”
The ‘fantastic’ St John’s Chambers is ‘a strong clinical negligence set’, housing members with strength in handling a range of defendant and claimant work.”
Resources
Client Quotes
“I use St John’s Chambers a great deal for all my clinical negligence cases. They have a large number of very competent and experienced clinical negligence barristers all of whom I trust, and find brilliant. They provide excellent training courses.”
Seminars & Events
- Past Event
Clinical negligence conference: 24 hours in A&E - medical claims in an emergency setting
Venue: St George's, just off Park Street, Bristol - Past Event
Catastrophic and serious injuries conference - life ending and life shortening accidents
Venue: Bristol Beacon, Trenchard St, Bristol BS1 5AR - Past Event
Catastrophic Injury conference - Bristol
Venue: Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel
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