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Clinical Negligence: Briony has a broad experience of clinical negligence work in both the medical and dental professions. She has acted in a wide variety of cases in the High Court and county courts and regularly settles pleadings, draft letters of claim / response and advises in writing and in conference. Cases in which Briony has acted include the legality of posthumous fertility treatment, peri - and post - operative care, nervous shock following the loss of a baby, failure to obtain a consent to surgical procedures and the prescribing of addictive medication in exchange for sexual favours.
Disciplinary Work: Briony has a keen interest in all aspects of medical and dental disciplinary work. She represents doctors and dentists before the Interim Orders and Fitness to Practice Panels at the GMC and Interim Orders and Professional Conduct Committees of the GDC. She recently avoided conditions at the interim stage in respect of a doctor accused of sexual assault.
Briony has also represented doctors faced with performance related inquiries at hearings before the Family Health Services Appeals Authority and medical students before their faculty Fitness to Practice Committees.
Inquests: Briony has a wealth of inquest experience. She has acted for families as well as NHS Trusts / PCTs and individual clinicians. She has been instrumental in obtaining a number of neglect verdicts for families, including following the loss of a child. She has also been involved in representing the interests of NHS Trusts / PCTs and individual clinicians in a wide variety of issues including deaths from surgery, deaths of psychiatric patients, deaths in police custody, deaths in prisons, neonatal deaths and deaths following infective processes such as c-diff and MRSA. In March and April 2009 she was jointly instructed on behalf of two NHS Trusts at an inquest into the deaths of 10 elderly patients, heard in one hearing at Portsmouth Combined Court, whose deaths were suspected of having been unnecessarily hastened by the giving of inappropriate doses of strong opiates.
Briony has also represented Trusts in relation to judiial review proceedings following inquests.
Disclosure Applications: Briony has acted in a number of disclosure applications in both the High Court and crown courts in a medical context. She has represented NHS Trusts in cases in which it is necessary to assert confidentiality in relation to medical records, or manage disclosure, such as those involving child abuse by a familly member.
Injunctions: Briony has experience in a number of injunction applications including ex parte injunction involving threats to kill.
Personal Injury: Acting for both claimants and defendants, Briony regularly settles pleadings and provides advice on a wide variety of personal injury claims, including road traffic accidents, accidents at work and accidents on the highway. She has appeared in both multi and fast track trials.
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