Gatehouse Chambers' PI & Clin Neg Team

Huge congratulations to @BagotBriefs on winning Clinical Negligence Silk of the Year 2024 *on top of* winning Personal Injury Silk of the Year 2023! Incredible work from our semi-aquatic colleague! @GatehousePI

Great talks yesterday from my PI colleagues at the ‘Head Injury Litigation Insights, Opportunities and Pitfalls’ conference @gatehouse_law @GatehousePI #PersonalInjury

Thanks to the 140 or so of you who tuned in today to hear @JakeRowley1989 and me have a chat about the latest cases on #fundamentaldishonesty We regularly have these 30 minute Brews so keep up to date on our website gatehouselaw.co.uk/area/clinical-…

Out of touch with the latest on #fundamentaldishonesty ? Catch up over a half hour webinar with @cruellacivil and @JakeRowley1989 TOMORROW. Details here: gatehouselaw.co.uk/event/what-is-…

Looking forward to hearing tips and insights about inquests and the Coroner’s Court from two Assistant Coroners @VanessaMcKinlay and Leila Benyounes #PIBACon24

Always great to have an entertaining and enthusiastic law professor like @jamessflee take us through complex areas of law such as duty of care - where even the judges disagree whether it is a developing area of law or not #PIBACon24

And we’re off! Our Chair @BagotBriefs opens the #PIBACon24 at Keble.

Beautiful morning for a PIBA breakfast and talks @PIBarAssoc #PIBACon24

A proud day celebrating the appointment of Michael Wheater KC today. Many congratulations! 👏

"...One of the best ways to see that those without funding are not shut out from legal representation is to donate to Advocate when you renew your practising certificate". - @BagotBriefs, Chair of @PIBarAssoc. Find out more ➡️bit.ly/ProBono35 #ProBono35

"We're gonna need a bigger shelf ..."

Are Roses red? That may be subjective. But you are most definitely, My Overriding Objective. #legalvalentines

JC Guidelines just out. Good to see image based abuse being included in the Psych chapter and some helpful notes about loss of amenity and inflation.

My thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision on secondary victims yesterday in Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS & ors, co-authored with one of my Instructing Solicitors in the Supreme Court, Joanna Lloyd, Partner @BevanBrittanLLP : gatehouselaw.co.uk/the-supreme-co…

The Supreme Court has dismissed claimants' appeals in the secondary victim cases of Paul v R.Wolverhampton NHST & ors. Doctors owe no duty to a patient's family to protect them against harm from witnessing a death or medical crisis from clinical negligence supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uks…

TODAY AT NOON!

Griffiths v TUI [2023] UKSC 48 appeal allowed! SC finds that both trial J and CA “erred in law in a significant way”and gives guidance as to cross examination of witnesses and Part 35 questions to experts. supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uks…

In case you missed "The Big Short(fall)" - this article by Martyn Griffiths and myself is now on @CostsLawyers' Costs Lawyer Journal #Costs #ProtectedParties #BudgetOverspend @gatehouse_law @GatehousePI associationofcostslawyers.co.uk/journal-hub/Th…

Our Annual Lecture is on Weds 29 Nov - a week from today! Come to Inner Temple and hear Lord Justice Sales speak about the interface between tort law and statute law. More details here: piba.org.uk/2023_annual_le…

Master Stevens updates the JC Guidelines for inflation when deciding the amount of an interim payment in DEE v WELSH AMBULANCE SERVICES NHS TRUST [2023] EWHC 2765(KB) bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/…