Clinical Negligence

St John’s Chambers is ‘a ‘go to’ set in the Western circuit for good quality clinical negligence work’ with ‘strength and depth at both the junior and senior junior end.

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Clinical Negligence Overview

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.