Chris Gutteridge has been committed to working on behalf of seriously injured people and bereaved families for nearly two decades. He has an established track record of achieving excellent results for claimants in high-value clinical negligence claims. Chris represents claimants who have suffered catastrophic injuries as a result of medical negligence. He has a reputation for quickly “getting to the heart” of a clinical negligence claim and providing “clear and eloquent” advice. He is always happy to be involved in the earliest stages of a claim to discuss tactics, expert evidence and a claimant’s rehabilitation needs. Chris has a wealth of experience as an advocate in the King’s Bench Division. He has represented claimants at trials of breach and causation as preliminary issues as well as for assessment of damages. He is adept at cross-examination of medical experts and medical lay witnesses. He is recognised the legal directories as a “brilliant” and “extremely tough” advocate. Chris has a special interest in the engagement of vulnerable claimants in their claims for compensation. He successfully represented the claimant in the first reported case on the ‘vulnerability’ provisions in CPR PD1A: AXX v. Zajac [2022] EWHC 2463.
Mr Robert Macadam is a consultant general surgeon of 21 years standing in the NW with over 15 years of experience in medico-legal practice. He currently receives more than 50 instructions per year from both claimant and defendant solicitors, and has experience giving evidence in court and participating in joint expert meetings. His areas of expertise include emergency general surgery, upper gastrointestinal surgery, surgical decision-making, post-operative complications, and the prevention of avoidable harm. Robert has served as a Patient Safety Specialist and Assistant Medical Director at his NHS trust and as a CQC Specialist Advisor in general surgery. He is regularly invited to lecture on medico-legal matters, including by several of the UK’s largest clinical negligence law firms and the Advancing Quality Alliance (AQUA) in the North West. He also teaches on his Trust’s education programme, delivering sessions on the prevention of avoidable harm to patients. Robert has completed expert witness training with Bond Solon and is registered with the National Expert Witness Agency. Robert can also be contacted via his website: https://www.liabilityandcausation.co.uk
Aneurin Moloney is a clinical negligence and inquests junior at Gatehouse Chambers. His practice is predominantly claimant based, although he is also regularly instructed on behalf of defendants, and in particular private medical practitioners. Nye is ranked as a ‘Leading Junior’ in the Legal 500. He has particular expertise in claims arising out of delays in the diagnosis of cancer, the management of neurological emergencies, surgical errors, and issues of informed consent. Nye also regularly appears on behalf of families and NHS Trusts at inquests, a number of which have been reported in local and national press.
James Miller is one of very few barristers to have tripled qualified as a barrister, solicitor and costs lawyer. He is frequently instructed in high value and complex detailed assessment hearings before Regional Costs Judges and Costs Judges in the Senior Court Costs Office. James deals with test cases, appeals and all aspects of Costs and Case Management. He is a recognised expert in Fixed Recoverable Costs cases and regularly deals with disputes relating to misconduct and wasted costs.
Adam Grant is a Costs Lawyer and one of the Technical Leads at Peak Legal Costs. With over 15 years’ experience in legal costs for receiving and paying parties he has seen the development of costs management and budgeting since its inception. Adam predominantly works on high value clinical negligence matters and has been ranked as ‘up and coming’ by Chambers and Partners. He has also served on the Association of Costs Lawyers Council with responsibility for policy development.
Martyn Elliott is a Team Leader within Fletchers’ Liverpool office, leading one of their serious injury clinical negligence teams. He has represented injured Claimants for over 25 years handling a variety of injury claims of differing values, and has worked exclusively in clinical negligence since 2013. He joined Fletchers in 2020 and in recent years has focused on cases involving serious and disabling injuries with complex care, accommodation, and other lifelong loss claims. He has been recognised in the Legal 500. Martyn now manages and supervises a clinical negligence caseload of predominantly serious and catastrophic injuries, with particular interest in stroke and brain injury, amputation and vascular injuries, fatal dependency claims, neurological, cauda equina and spinal injuries. Martyn also has experience of a wide range of clinical negligence cases including cancer, colorectal, ophthalmology, hepato-biliary, orthopaedics and surgical injuries.
Alison Hills is a Solicitor Advocate specialising in medical negligence claims, having qualified in 2012. She has spent the majority of her career at leading London firms and has recently joined Fletchers’ serious injury clinical negligence team based in Liverpool. She has an established track record of successfully leading multi-million pound catastrophic injury cases and is recognised for her expertise in high-value and legally complex claims, particularly in spinal injury, catastrophic brain injury, fatal claims, and inquests. She has a strong commitment to achieving justice for her clients, combining technical expertise with a strategic, pragmatic and client-focused approach”.
