Partner at Irwin Mitchell
An expert medical negligence solicitor with extensive experience as a product liability solicitor also.

Cases include:

• Maynard v West Midlands RHA
• Bolitho v City and Hackney HA
• Aboul Hosn v Trustees of National Hospital for Nervous Diseases
• Hopkins v McKenzie; the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Litigation Group A
• R v North Derbyshire HA ex parte Fisher
• ''K'' v Plymouth HA; the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Litigation Group B; representing families of 63 variat CJD victims at the BSE inquiry; presently negotiating the terms of the BSE No Fault Compensation Scheme.

"He is just outstanding - his achievements in the field are extraordinary"
Chambers and Partners Directory - 2007/08

• Articled DJ Freeman and Co
• qualified 1981
• Halls 1981-91
• partner 1984
• Partner Irwin Mitchell 1991
• Member executive committee: APIL 1989-91
• Chair Medical Negligence Group: APIL

• Chapter on 'The Conduct of Proceedings'
• Powers and Harris 'Medical Negligence' (1st and 2nd edition; 3rd edition with Charles Gillott)
• 'Review of civil and criminal Liability of Anaesthetists' (published British Journal of Anaesthesia August 1994)
• Chapter on 'The CJD Litigation' for 'Multi Party Actions' (in press).

• AVMA Lawyers Support Group
• APIL
• Law society Medical Negligence Panel (Member and Assossor) ATLA and ATLA Birth Trauma Litigation Group