Recent

Last 12 months include:

• Conclusion of multimillion pound 2 year international commercial arbitration as a co-arbitrator for the LCIA
• Cerebral palsy case settled at the court door for the highest known sum in a Caribbean jurisdiction
• Cerebral palsy case resulting from failure to monitor adequately during labour (judgment awaited)
• Cerebral palsy case (now quantum only) arising from failure to treat hypoglycaemia in a neonate
• Fatal case of a man treated for tuberculosis when he in fact had a lymphoma
• Delay in the treatment of breast seroma following breast cancer surgery – case settled
• ARB v IVF Hammersmith and R [2018] EWCA Civ 2803 – instructed by the Third Party in IVF appeal: whether legal policy in tort McFarlane v Tayside Board [2000] 2 AC 59 applicable to a claim for breach where a strict to strict contractual clause.
• Speaking at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales on my favourite topic: expert evidence.

Current Activities include

• Claim for limb amputations from a failure to diagnose and expeditiously treat appropriately a case of sepsis – with causation in issue
• Claim for paraplegia as a consequence of failure to diagnose spinal abscess and treat appropriately (liability settled – quantum to be determined)
• Claim of brain damage caused by a therapeutic overdose of parenteral opiates
• Working on criminal appeal against conviction in an alleged shaken baby syndrome (“SBS”) case
• General Editor of multi-author book “Expert Psychiatric Evidence” 2nd Edition with Professor Keith Rix
• Co-writing a text on Risk Management in the NHS with Omar Malik and Professor Philip Steer
• As an examiner for the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physician, setting examination questions for the primary FFLM
• Training new advocacy tutors at Cumberland Lodge for Lincoln’s Inn
• Updating Equality and Diversity training
• Post Call Advocacy training at Highgate House for Lincoln’s Inn barristers
• Professional Negligence Bar Association Annual Clinical Negligence Conference, Oxford

Further developing my interest in the piano by promoting the annual Milton Combe Piano Festival: https://www.mcpfestival.co.uk

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