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Peter is ranked by the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a leading junior in clinical negligence and healthcare law at the London Bar. His principal areas of expertise are complex clinical negligence and personal injury cases, including product liability. He is also in demand for his expertise in relation to coroners’ inquests and related fatal accident litigation. He acts for both claimants and defendants.
Peter practised as a hospital doctor and as a solicitor specialising in product liability and healthcare law, before transferring to the Bar. He is a practising mediator and a former Assistant Deputy Coroner in London. He is the author and assistant editor of a number of leading medico-legal textbooks. He is a regular chairman and speaker at medico-legal conferences, for both lawyers and healthcare professionals.
Key cases
- Hayhurst v Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: brain injury complicating attempted cerebral aneurysm ablation therapy.
- Ashton v Yorkshire & Humber Strategic Health Authority: obstetric negligence causing cerebral palsy.
- Williams v MOD: failure to diagnose kidney disease, provisional damages award.
- Re Havard deceased: jury inquest, gross failures of paediatric anaesthesia, nervous shock
- Eastgate v Oxfordshire County Council: applicability of manual handling regulations to worker failing to declare full medical history
Contact Peter Ellis
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7242 3555
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7242 2511
Email: clerks@7br.co.uk