Our barristers specialise in medical and health care law, mental health law, personal injury law and coroner's inquests, professional conduct law, general regulatory law, employment law, and commercial law connected to the health care and regulatory law sectors. Call Gerard Quirke on 07983 565690.

We are specialists in Commercial Law, Education Law, Mental Health Law, Sports Law, Trading Standards Law, Agricultural Law, Animal Protection Law, Veterinary Law, Police Disciplinary Law, Employment Law, Regulatory Law, Personal Injury Law, Family Law, Criminal Law, Land and Property Law.

Chambers regularly acts for families, professionals and hospitals at coroner's inquests.

Care Standards Law, Care Home Law and Nursing Fees Challenges

Coroner's Inquests and Public InquiriesClinical Negligence & Professional Negligence

Court of Protection and High Court Applications

Criminal Law

Medical Law

Employment Law

Personal Injury

Mental Health Law

Public Law Challenges

Professional Conduct, Fitness to Practise and Health Committee Law

Serious Case Review Authorship and Independent Chairing
Regulatory Law and Licensing

Care Standards Law, Care Home Law, Nursing Fees

Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) England

Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW/CSSIW) 

Care Quality Commission (CQC)

Care Home closures and registrations

Emergency Care Home Closures

Care Home Standards and Protocols

Care Home Commercial Disputes

Challenges to NHS assessments of primary health care needs and nursing fees, whether total care or Registered Nursing Care Contributions (RNCC)

Legal Responses to CSCI CQC Criticism

Appeals to Care Standards Tribunal (CST) and other similar bodies

Ofsted Inspections and Closures: Children's Homes, Nurseries and Schools. Legal responses to critical reports and notices of cancellation.

Clinical Negligence & Professional Negligence:

Clinical accidents and Personal Injury

Surgical failings and errors

Acts and omissions leading to injury or death - Fatalities

Faulty clinical products or inappropriate use of medicines

Pressure Sore development

Incompetence clinically or managerially

Birth injuries and Defects

Both claimant and defence work undertaken in all clinical and paramedical specialities

General Professional negligence for industries and professions allied to health

Pharmaceutical Claims and Medical Research Law

Coroner's Inquests and Public Inquiries

Inquests into unnatural or violent deaths, or deaths from unknown causes.

Advice on evidence and verdicts, including narrative verdicts. Verdicts can include: suicide, unlawful killing, accidental death, death by misadventure, death from clinical or other neglect or self-neglect.

Advice on appealing under s.13 Coroners Act 1988 (with the Attorney General's Fiat or Permission) or judicially reviewing a coroner's decision. 

Representing:

Families

Clinicians

Individuals

Professionals

Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Local Authorities

Commercial Organisations

National Bodies

Other 'interested parties'

Prisons and Police Forces


Criminal Law:

Medical Malpractice - Assault (treatment without consent)

Unlawful killings (accidental killings, homicide)

Causation medical issues (death and serious harm)

Indecent assault in clinic (allegations of improriety)

Clinical Fraud, Overclaiming fees for services not provided

Defence of doctors, nurses, dentists, physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals in criminal proceedings

Health and Safety prosecutions and defence

Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) Challenges

Office of Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) prosecutions

Public Law, Court of Protection and High Court Applications:

Medical law and ethics generally

Patient's refusal to consent

Advance directives - Living Wills

Capacity - adults, minors

Withdrawal of treatment

Capacity Act 2005 legal issues

Injunctions and Injunctive Relief

Challenges to Hospital Doctors and Coroners Decisions

Challenges on Grounds of Religious Belief (Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.)

Public Health Law

Public Law Challenges

Serious Case Review Authorship and Independent Chairing

Public Inquiry Representation

Independent Chairing

 

Employment Law (Medical and General Employment):

Employer Disciplinary Hearing Representation

Unfair Dismissal Claims

Discrimination Claims

Employer and Employee Advice and Representation

Advice on Settlements

Personal Injury:

Complex and simple injuries

Tripping and Slipping

Fatal accidents

Workplace accidents

Catastrophic injuries

Both claimant and defence work undertaken

Product Liability

Criminal Injuries Compensation Awards


Mental Health Law:

Mental Health Act 1983 & 2007 Matters

Mental Capacity Act 2005 Matters

Court of Protection Act 2007 Matters

Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs)

First and Second Tier Mental Health Cases


Personal Injury:

Complex and simple injuries

Tripping and Slipping

Fatal accidents

Workplace accidents

Catastrophic injuries

Both claimant and defence work undertaken

Product Liability

Criminal Injuries Compensation Awards

 
Regulatory Law:

General Medical Council (GMC - doctors - all legal aspects including fitness to practise, interim orders registration, revalidation and licensing)

GP Performance Lists Suspensions, Hearings, Appeals, Advice

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC - nurses and midwives)

General Dental Council (GDC - dentists)

General Optical Council (GOC - opticians and optometrists)

General Social Care Council (GSCC) and Care Council for Wales (CCW) Cases - Social Workers, Personal Care Workers, Other Carers)

Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB - pharmacists and pharmacy technicians)

General Teaching Council (GTC - Teachers)

Royal Society of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Veterinary Practitioners - Vets and Veterinary Nurses Regulation

Alternative Medicine Practitioners

Council for Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) Law

Domicilary Care Agencies and Providers Regulatory Law

Sports Bodies & Regulators (Sports law)

Appeals and judicial review from tribunal decisions (JR)

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act (SVGA), Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) Law, Protection of Children Act (POCA) and Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) Referrals, Writen Responses, and Appeals to the Care Standards Tribunal (CST)

Trading Standards Law

Financial Services Regulation

Agricultural Law, Animal Health Prosecutions

Animal Cruelty Law and Regulation

Alcohol Licensing and Regulation

Police Law, Police Discipline and Police Misconduct:

Police Conduct Regulations 2008

Police Conduct Regulations 2004

Health Professions Council (HPC) governing:

Art psychotherapist, Art therapist

Dramatherapist, Music therapist

Biomedical scientist, Medical laboratory technician

Chiropodist, Podiatrist

Clinical scientist

Dietician

Occupational therapist

Orthoptist

Paramedic

Physiotherapist,

Prosthetist, Orthotist,

Operating department practitioner

Radiographer

Speech and language therapist, Speech therapists.

Call Gerard Quirke on 07983 565690.