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Dr Peter Ellis is ranked by the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a leading junior in clinical negligence and personal injury at the London Bar: “...impresses sources with his medical know-how, approachability and depth of knowledge beyond that of his contemporaries... you win cases with him because he helps everyone through the evidence calmly and effectively and makes over-aggressive hired guns seem foolish...".  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.

Dr Ellis practised as a hospital doctor and as a solicitor specialising in healthcare and product liability litigation before transferring to the Bar. He is an Assistant Deputy Coroner in London and a qualified mediator. 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

  • Carrigan v Barts & The London NHS Trust: delay in diagnosis of epidural haematoma complicating implantation of spinal cord electrode, paraplegia. Out of court settlement, capital value £3.7M.
  • Defoe v Luton & Dunstable Hospitals NHS Trust: delay in diagnosis of congenital cardiac rhythm disturbance, hypoxic brain damage. Out of court settlement, capital value £4M.
  • Hayhurst v Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust: delay in diagnosis of brain haemorrhage complicating radiological ablation of arterio-venous malformation. Out of court settlement, capital value £5.5M.
  • Hubley deceased: inquest, fatal haemorrhage complicating laparoscopic cholecystectomy in independent treatment centre, absence of blood products on site, neglect verdict. A widely reported case which featured in a BBC Panorama documentary on fatalities at independent surgical treatment centres.
  • Reynolds v Strutt & Parker LLP [2011] EWHC 2263 (QBD):  duty of care owed to employee injured during office outing.

Contact Peter Ellis

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7242 3555
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7242 2511
Email: clerks@7br.co.uk