The Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Pod from St John’s Chambers

Our  Personal Injury  &  Clinical Negligence  teams have created a compelling channel for lawyers which will provide news, insights, and some personality to complex legal cases. Our podcasts convey thought leadership throughout our episodes, share insights, and simplify and discuss implications of key cases in personal injury and clinical negligence law. We also aim to save solicitors some tim...

Our  Personal Injury  &  Clinical Negligence  teams have created a compelling channel for lawyers which will provide news, insights, and some personality to complex legal cases. Our podcasts convey thought leadership throughout our episodes, share insights, and simplify and discuss implications of key cases in personal injury and clinical negligence law. We also aim to save solicitors some tim...

Our  Personal Injury  &  Clinical Negligence  teams have created a compelling channel for lawyers which will provide news, insights, and some personality to complex legal cases. Our podcasts convey thought leadership throughout our episodes, share insights, and simplify and discuss implications of key cases in personal injury and clinical negligence law. We also aim to save solicitors some tim...

Our  Personal Injury  &  Clinical Negligence  teams have created a compelling channel for lawyers which will provide news, insights, and some personality to complex legal cases. Our podcasts convey thought leadership throughout our episodes, share insights, and simplify and discuss implications of key cases in personal injury and clinical negligence law. We also aim to save solicitors some tim...

  Our  Personal Injury  &  Clinical Negligence  teams have created a compelling channel for lawyers which will provide news, insights, and some personality to complex legal cases. Our podcasts convey thought leadership throughout our episodes, share insights, and simplify and discuss implications of key cases in personal injury and clinical negligence law. We also aim to save solicitors some t...

Our  Personal Injury  &  Clinical Negligence  teams have created a compelling channel for lawyers which will provide news, insights, and some personality to complex legal cases. Our podcasts convey thought leadership throughout our episodes, share insights, and simplify and discuss implications of key cases in personal injury and clinical negligence law. We also aim to save solicitors some tim...

In this short episode, Sophie Howard and Lauren Karmel delve into the recent judgment in Man v St George’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 1304 (KB) and discuss practical guidance on witness evidence for both Claimant and Defendant practitioners. With a notable increase of interlocutory applications as regards the status of witness evidence in clinical negligence, this podcast is a time...

Episode 26 - Expert evidence in anaesthesia and intensive care (Part 2): in conversation with Professor Jerry Nolan In this episode, Beatrice Baskett and Rhodri Jones sit down with Professor Jerry Nolan and discuss his experiences providing expert evidence in the civil context in the areas of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. This is part two, where the first episode considered Jerry’s experience in...

In this episode, Beatrice Baskett and Rhodri Jones sit down with Professor Jerry Nolan and discuss his experiences providing expert evidence in the Coroner’s Court, including his role in both the Hillsborough Inquiry and the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry (following the Novichok poisoning in Salisbury). Professor Jerry Nolan is a consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal United Hos...

Episode 24 - Mild Traumatic Brain Injury In this episode, James Marwick and Ben Handy discuss some of the challenges of brain injury litigation and the key learning points from some of the big cases of recent years.

This edition of the Personal Injury Pod features a discussion between barristers Matthew White and Rachel Segal about Life Expectancy in Personal Injury claims: the nature of life expectancy data, how and why that affects approaches to calculation of future losses, and the impact of negative and positive discount rates.

In this podcast, Deputy Head of Clinical Negligence, Louise Asprey and Beatrice Baskett of St John's Chambers Inquests team consider the coronial concept ‘neglect’: its development, what needs to be proven for a finding of neglect to be returned and examples from their own practices where the issue has been raised.

In this episode Sophie Howard and Beatrice Baskett will discuss approval hearings, covering the basics, some practical tips on preparing for hearings and what to look out for, together with a look at claims on behalf of child dependants in Fatal Accident Act claims.

Our  Personal Injury  team have created a compelling channel for personal injury lawyers which will provide news, insights, and some personality to complex legal cases. Our podcasts will convey thought leadership throughout our episodes as well as simplify and discuss implications of key cases in personal injury law. We will also aim to save solicitors some time in summarising and explaining devel...

Our  Personal Injury  team have created a compelling channel for personal injury lawyers which will provide news, insights, and some personality to complex legal cases. Our podcasts will convey thought leadership throughout our episodes as well as simplify and discuss implications of key cases in personal injury law. We will also aim to save solicitors some time in summarising and explaining devel...

On the approach to his fiftieth anniversary at the Bar, St John’s founder Christopher Sharp KC talks to Ben Handy about his distinguished career, reflecting on life as a pupil in the 70s, the changes and developments he has seen over the decades, the cases he has won (and lost!), what St John’s means to him, and his plans for the next 50 years.

In this podcast, Richard Stead and Jonathan Lindfield provide a road map for those dealing with claims brought under the Animals Act 1971. A notoriously difficult piece of legislation, Jonathan and Richard focus on the structure and meaning of the Act, breaking it down into its constituent parts, with the aim of de-mystifying the process of how best to run or defend these claims. In considering th...

In this podcast, James Marwick and Justin Valentine discuss the Supreme Court decision in Paul v Royal Wolverhampton which has definitively closed the door on secondary victim claims in clinical negligence in the context of delayed diagnosis where the breach in duty was many weeks or months before, in each case, the tragic death of the family member.  The Supreme Court has followed Taylor v Novo i...

Christopher Sharp KC and Ben Handy of St John's Chambers Personal Injury team discuss the latest developments in lost years claims for children, reflecting on their history, their relationship to dependency claims under the Fatal Accidents Act, and the disconnect between the quantification of claims brought during and after a claimants’ lifetime. They consider the practical impact of that on advic...

We hear the term Galbraith plus used all the time in the Coroner’s Court but when was the last time you looked into what the test really requires a Coroner to do and what threshold it puts into place? Off the back of the case of Officer B50, Louise Asprey and Lauren Karmel of our  Inquests & Public Inquiries team answer these questions in this podcast. 

Rachel Segal and Matthew White of our Personal Injury team discuss an issue arising out of the use of practice of the damages claims portal. Rachel and Matthew were against each other in a case earlier this year which included many procedural problems all springing from the fact that the DCP is full of trip wires. They will discuss the issues and steer you on how to avoid the pitfalls. The is a DC...

In this podcast, Louise Asprey and Lauren Karmel of our Inquests & Public Inquiries team review the Supreme Court decision handed down earlier this year and the clarification that it provides in respect of the application of article 2. Whilst this case dealt with the application within a healthcare setting, it assists in a consideration of the application of article 2 generally.

In this podcast, James Marwick and Jonathan Lindfield of our Personal Injury team discuss the introduction of the intermediate track and the wider application of fixed costs to higher value cases.  This podcast will address the essentials of the new regime and how it might affect your day to day work as a personal injury practitioner.  The podcast will also discuss some of the proposed updates alr...

On this podcast, James Hughes and David Forster of St John's Chambers Personal Injury team consider recent case law developments regarding Part 36 offers in personal injury litigation.  Specifically, David and James look at when the courts have decided that it would be unjust to apply the normal Part 36 consequences for the late acceptance of an offer and the effect of Mundy v TUI [2023] EWHC 385...

On this podcast, Rhodri Jones and Rachel Segal of St John's Chambers Personal Injury team have a whistle-stop discussion of some general issues and principles associated with cosmetic surgery litigation.  This taster session includes a brief overview of relevant recent authorities such as Laura Clarke v Adam Kaleciński & Others [2022] EWHC 488 (QB).