"They offer a very strong clerking team with a can-do attitude. The clerks are clearly experienced and aware of each barrister's strengths and their recommendations and advice can be relied upon."; "It is a responsive and helpful clerking team."; "The clerks are really good."; "The clerks are excellent and respond to emails almost immediately every time."
Chambers & Partners 2025
'A good range of talent and experience.'; 'Great breadth and strength in medical negligence cases.'; 'Very professional set and competent in their area of work, with good availability of barristers.'; 'Very good strength in depth at both silk and junior level in the clinical negligence space. One of the heavyweights in the industry.'; 'The chambers have a broad range of skills and depth to call upon whenever needed.'
Clinical Negligence, Legal 500 2025
"Outer Temple has a very responsive clerking team who go out of their way to help their clients."
Clinical Negligence, Chambers & Partners 2024
"The clerks at Outer Temple Chambers are very responsive and accommodating. Chris Rowe is particularly helpful."
Clinical Negligence, Chambers & Partners 2024
"The service from the clerks is first class. They'll do everything in their power to accommodate you and your clients."
Clinical Negligence, Chambers & Partners 2024
"Outer Temple is an established, top-ranking chambers. It has both track record and a modern commercial approach. There are many strong choices of counsel. It is a most impressive set."
Clinical Negligence, Legal 500 2023
"Strong set with regard to personal injury and clinical negligence practitioners."
Clinical Negligence, Legal 500 2023
"A very personable set and lovely to work with. We have always been able to access appropriate counsel easily."
Clinical Negligence, Legal 500 2023
"There is excellent strength-in-depth across Outer Temple Chambers as a whole and we have been impressed with the quality of the advice given across the board from junior junior barristers up to KC level."
Clinical Negligence, Legal 500 2023
"Leading set of chambers recognised for their expertise in personal injury and clinical negligence."
Clinical Negligence, Legal 500 2023
"Fast becoming a junior of choice on some very significant instructions."
Clinical Negligence, Legal 500 2022
A 'first choice' for high-value catastrophic injury clinical negligence cases, the set fields a strong team.
Legal 500 2020
Please contact Paul Barton on +44 (0)207 427 4907 for more information. Our experienced practice management team will be pleased to provide you with more details of our expertise in this area.
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Our clinical negligence barristers cover various claims involving; doctors, dentists, nurses and other health professionals. We are frequently instructed in the most demanding and highest value cases, including birth injury and other serious neurological injuries. We act both for patients and their families and for bodies such as the NHS Resolution and the medical defence organisations.
In the wider healthcare field, we represent families, professionals and other interested persons at coroner’s inquests. We advise patients, doctors, NHS Trusts and regulatory bodies on law and policy in this area, including; public law and human rights. We appear in the range of tribunals where healthcare issues can arise, including the Administrative Court and the Court of Protection. We act in disciplinary and criminal proceedings involving doctors and other healthcare professionals, as well as dealing with the associated contractual and employment disputes: see our section on Disciplinary & Regulatory work for further details.
Outer Temple Chambers is proud to have been ranked Set of The Year 2017 for Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury.
We provide specialist advice and advocacy to both claimants and defendants in all aspects of clinical negligence and in a wide range of other healthcare work.
Our team of barristers are specialists in a wide range of clinical negligence areas including:
We have wide experience of multi-party clinical negligence litigation, public inquiries, internal NHS reviews and other extra judicial investigations. Indeed, in the last two decades our barristers have regularly been instructed in the most important and complex as well as high profile cases in this field: from the Kennedy Inquiry into paediatric cardiac surgery in Bristol and the Shipman Inquiry, to more recently the Thompstone periodical payment indexation cases and the inquests into patient deaths at Gosport Hospital.
The Ogden compensation tables with explanatory text have now been published on the GOV website. Only accessible online, they may be viewed here.
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