News & Events
News & Events
Samantha Presland appeared recently on behalf of the family of a baby girl at the inquest into her death at a hospital run by Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust. Ava Parkes died at just seven hours old after one of her shoulders was trapped against her mother’s pelvis during birth (shoulder dystocia). The coroner found that the delay between delivery of the baby’s head and the rest of the body placed her under increasing stress, with her brain being starved of oxygen. The coroner returned a narrative verdict, finding that the baby took significantly longer to be delivered than the notes of NHS staff suggested. Ava Parkes’ family has called for the NHS to review their systems to ensure no repeat…
News 13 Sep, 2012
Jonathan Hand and Patrick Sadd are guest speakers at AvMA’s North West Lawyer’s Support Group meeting on 5th November 2012. They will give a presentation on the implications for clinical negligence litigation of NHS Outsourcing. For more info please contact Norika Patel at AvMA on 020 8688 9555 email: norika@avma.org.uk.
Events 11 Sep, 2012
Alan Jenkins instructed to represent army doctor Dr Keilloh at GMC proceedings which commenced 11th June 2012. The doctor has been accused of covering up the death of the Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa, who suffered 93 separate injuries at the hands of British soldiers.
News 11 Jun, 2012
Date: 18th June 2012 – 10:30 to 16:00. Venue: The Peter Chalk Centre, Exeter University. This year Outer Temple Chambers is holding its annual clinical negligence conference in the West of England. The conference will be of interest to both specialist litigators in this field as well as mainstream personal injury practitioners and is designed to bring you up to date with a range of important developments. Chambers is charging a registration fee of £25 per delegate, all of which is going to Headway Devon, a local charity that provides essential services across Devon and Torbay for people with acquired brain injuries, their families and carers. Topics: Causation after Bailey Article 2 Inquests Coroners’ Reform US Trial Presentation De Puy…
Events 22 May, 2012
Anthony Haycroft has successfully defended a Preston GP who was a paediatric specialist in the GMC accused of lying and perjury. The GP faced allegations in connection with two patients. The first was a 3 week old baby who died the day after the GP saw the baby in February 2009 of a very rare condition, myocarditis.
News 14 May, 2012
Anthony Haycroft has defended a single handed general practitioner at a fitness to practice panel hearing in the General Medical Council. The doctor faced numerous failings including alleged dishonesty in retrospectively altering clinical notes as well as failings concerning missed referrals, not following up blood test results and not having a proper system to action over 500 pieces of correspondence found in his room.
News 24 Apr, 2012
Ben Bradley, instructed by Anthony Gold to represent the family of the deceased, successfully invited HM Coroner for NW London to make a rule 43 recommendation to the London Ambulance Service (“LAS”). LAS currently automatically cancels ambulances in circumstances where patients are triaged into the lowest category of severity. The coroner will ask LAS to review the manner in which it communicates this cancellation to service-users. At present, service-users could be left with the impression the ambulance is still on its way. The coroner was not critical of LAS but has recommended that their systems be reviewed. The coroner also found that failings on the part of one of the NHS Trusts involved in the care of the deceased, contributed…
News 24 Apr, 2012
Judgment was handed down today at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the case of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Browne. Mr Browne who was represented by Andrew Short QC and Andrew Allen at the EAT, was successful in resisting the Trust’s appeal.
News 10 Feb, 2012