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News & Events
Fiona Horlick QC succeeds in demonstrating that an expert called by the GMC in proceedings against a consultant surgeon did not have the expertise to give a suitably qualified opinion. As a result there was no case for Fiona’s client to answer. Fiona represented a renowned Consultant Vitreoretinal Surgeon who faced complex allegations in a MPTS hearing concerning the consequences of vitreoretinal surgery that he had carried out including allegations concerning a suprachoroidal haemorrhage and carrying out a procedure that was not clinically indicated. In order to support its case, the GMC called an Ophthalmic Surgeon who had to admit under cross-examination by Fiona that he was not a vitreoretinal surgeon, that he had never performed a vitreoretinal procedure independently,…
News 23 Jan, 2020
Fiona Horlick QC successfully defends a Consultant in sequential proceedings. Dr Basu, a consultant cardiologist, was charged in criminal proceedings involving sexual allegations in relation to three female patients. Fiona defended Dr Basu at the trial at Woolwich Crown Court and he was acquitted. Following the trial, the GMC investigated the allegations and brought Fitness to Practice proceedings against Dr Basu. Following a hearing in front of a MPTS Tribunal in November in which again Fiona defended, Dr Basu was cleared of all allegations. Fiona specialises in defending professionals in criminal proceedings and regulatory proceedings. Should you wish to instruct Fiona or find out more, please contact Graham Woods or Chris Rowe on +44 (0)20 7353 6381.
News 5 Dec, 2019
As part of the newly-created Certificate in Common Law and DIFC Courts Practice, Keith Bryant QC and Jonathan Hand QC have successfully delivered training on Appeal Advocacy and judged the final Advocacy Assessment Exercises for students at the DIFC Academy of Law in Dubai. The group was made up of some twenty aspiring trial lawyers, all of whom have benefitted from three sessions of advocacy training run by Outer Temple barristers John McKendrick QC, James Counsell QC, Fiona Horlick QC and Benjimin Burgher, since the beginning of 2019. Jonathan Hand QC commented: “This was a very rewarding opportunity to teach advocacy in a different environment, to a diverse group of students, many of whom didn’t come from a common law background,…
News 3 May, 2019
We are pleased to announce that a team of six members of Outer Temple Chambers will provide advocacy training within the Certificate in Common Law and DIFC Courts Practice programme in Dubai. The DIFC Academy of Law have launched this course for Emirati Advocates and other civil law trained lawyers, in-house counsel, and legal professionals seeking to diversify their skills and enhance their professional development. In early March and April 2019, James Counsell QC, Benjimin Burgher, John McKendrick QC, Fiona Horlick, Keith Bryant QC and Jonathan Hand will be delivering specialised training on trial advocacy and witness handling, oral submissions and appeal advocacy, and written advocacy. Other trainers include expert legal faculty members from the Middlesex University, Dubai-College of Law, and…
News 25 Feb, 2019
Fiona Horlick, instructed by Jane Lang BLM Cardiff, has again successfully defended a consultant psychiatrist charged with historic sexual abuse with regard to his male patients. She has appeared for the doctor in all three sequential Crown Court trials. Fiona ran a successful Abuse of Process argument to stay proceedings in the latest trial. Also, Fiona, instructed by Julie Matheson at Kingsley Napley, headed up the prosecution team on behalf of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (the IFoA) in the disciplinary hearing of Mr Oketch, a South African actuary. The IFoA is the global regulator of actuaries. The case involved pensions litigation in Kenya and serious professional misconduct on the part of Mr Oketch. Mr Oketch was erased at…
News 11 Oct, 2018
Fiona Horlick has successfully defended a consultant cardiologist and general physician at Woolwich Crown Court. The consultant was charged with ten sexual offences against three patients including assault by penetration. After a 3 week trial, the consultant was acquitted of all charges by the jury. The case garnered considerable media interest. Please see BBC (here and here) and MailOnline (here and here) Fiona was instructed by Eastwoods Solicitors and the MDU. For information about Fiona’s expertise, see this page.
News 27 Sep, 2017
Fiona Horlick, instructed by Eastwoods Solicitors, successfully defended a doctor charged with criminal offences of sexual assault. Fiona represented him at the trial at Wood Green Crown Court trial where he was acquitted of all charges under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 by the jury. The doctor, a general practitioner of long standing, was accused of sexually assaulting an elderly patient during a home visit and sexually assaulting a nurse when he was on duty at a hospital. Fiona has a particular expertise in defending professionals charged with criminal offences across a range of criminal offences including fraud, violence and sexual offences.
News 16 Nov, 2016
Outer Temple Chambers is pleased to have been nominated in two categories for the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2016. Within Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence, Cara Guthrie has received nominations for Junior of the Year and Fiona Horlick is nominated for Junior of the Year within Professional Discipline. The Awards ceremony will take place on 27th October. To instruct either Cara or Fiona please contact Paul Barton, Business Development Director, Health team.
News 20 Sep, 2016
Fiona Horlick acted for Harlow District Council in their prosecution of G4S Cash Solutions Ltd for serious breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. G4S were sentenced on 2nd September 2016 at Chelmsford Crown Court. The Judge found a ‘flagrant breach of the law’ following G4S’s persistent failure over a number of years to protect its staff and visitors from the risk of exposure to legionella bacteria which carries a risk of death from Legionnaires Disease. G4S, a company with a turnover of £250 million, were fined a total of £1.8m and ordered to pay all the prosecution costs. The Judge, in applying the new sentencing guidelines, found very high culpability coupled with a statistically low risk…
News 7 Sep, 2016
The BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in April 2010 led the European Commission to review the safety of offshore oil and gas activities. Three years later it published the Directive on Safety of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations (OSD). On 19 July 2015 amended regulations – the Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc) Regulations 2015 – came into force, which are seen as the ‘key to the management of offshore health and safety and environmental major hazards’. Richard Lissack QC & Fiona Horlick have identified and analysed the main points of the 2015 regulations in an article written for the New Law Journal. The article can be found here through the NLJ website.
News 30 Sep, 2015
Fiona Horlick appeared for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) in a recent disciplinary hearing involving allegations brought by IFoA against two scheme actuaries. The facts involved their misconduct in relation to three pension schemes including breaches of the pensions legislation in relation to scheme actuary work, breaches of the TASs and incompetence in relation to their work. Both were expelled from membership.
News 19 Jul, 2015
Fiona Horlick successfully represented a doctor who appealed against a GMC MPTS panel’s decision to hear his FTP case in his absence and where he had no legal representation. The issues in the case were very serious, justifying erasure. The High Court ruled that the ‘panel erred in a number of serious ways in their approach to the exercise of their discretion’.
News 2 Dec, 2014
