Charles Foster
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Practice summary
Charles Foster was awarded the '2011 Chambers Bar Award' for Junior of the Year in professional discipline.
A specialist medical law practitioner. Areas covered include consent to treatment, withdrawal of treatment, disciplinary and regulatory work (GMC, GDC and others), healthcare resource allocation, clinical confidentiality and clinical negligence.
Publications
Author, editor or contributor to well over 30 books. Hundreds of articles. Details are at http://www.charlesfoster.co.uk/
- R (on the application of Purdy) v DPP
- The assisted suicide litigation in the House of Lords
- The NHS Trust A v MB
- Should life-sustaining ventilation be withdrawn from a child with Spinal Muscular Atrophy?
- GMC v Samuels
- Design and conduct of a clinical trial of extra-thoracic negative pressure ventilation for neonates
- Meaning of “review”: jurisdiction of Family Health Services Appeal Authority.
- R v Chief Constable of West Mercia ex p Jepson
- Judicial review of a decision not to prosecute for late abortion of a child with cleft lip and palate
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust v As, Bs and others
- Lloyd’s Rep: Med. 151: The Times, 26 February 2003; [2003] 1 F.C.R. 599; (2003) 100(17) L.S.G. 28;
- Black twins born to white mother as a result of an IVF mix up. Issue of legal fatherhood. Construction of s. 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and compatibility of that section with the ECHR.
Also has an interesting and varied practice. His is a caseload full of high-value obstetrics cases, and he is known as "a good man for the more idiosyncratic cases”. Clinical Negligence, Chambers and Partners 2012
Medical law expert Charles Foster is, according to many voices in the area, "one of the first we turn to." He appears in messy, sensitive cases involving multiple allegations of wrongdoing and breaches of medical ethics. Professional Discipline, Chambers and Partners 2012
‘highly regarded for his efforts. He is a tried and tested performer’ Clinical Negligence, Chambers and Partners 2011
‘ is very much a specialist in medical law, and regularly appears in front of the GMC's fitness to practise panels. He is rated very highly by clients, who admire and appreciate his "courtroom fireworks." Professional Discipline, Chambers and Partners 2011
Appointments & memberships:
- Recorder of the Crown Court and County Court
- Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford
- Tutor in Medical Law and Ethics, University of Oxford