1971 - 1975 Downside School
1976 - 1979 Downing College, Cambridge
(Modern Languages: Russian and French)

1980 - 1981 Royal Navy
1981 - 1982 City University, [Dip. Law]
1982 – 1983 Bar Finals (2.1)
1983 Scholarship : Carpmael Building (now 3 Serjeants’ Inn)

2010 Appointed Queen's Counsel 

Email: ghugh-jones@3serjeantsinn.com

George Hugh-Jones is recommended in clinical negligence by the Legal 500, and in clinical negligence and professional discipline by Chambers & Partners:

'George Hugh-Jones is a new silk. He is forging an excellent reputation for his sterling work across a wide range of matters.'.... Chambers and Partners 2011

'George Hugh-Jones QC has plenty of experience of GMC work. Commentators say of him that he prospers because he is "charming when appropriate and ferocious when necessary.".... Chambers and Partners 2011

 'Solicitors appreciate his help in identifying those cases they should settle and those they should fight with determination.' Chambers and Partners 2010

"Consistently first-class in his preparation and advocacy," George Hugh-Jones defends doctors in misconduct cases. Interviewees remark that he is "tactically astute and gets to grips with a case very quickly." Chambers and Partners 2010

'...the “persuasive but fair” George Hugh-Jones, who has a reputation for being “thorough with the detail and not afraid to go to trial and stick his neck out.”' Chambers & Partners 2009

'George Hugh-Jones has an excellent reputation in medical professional discipline, and is appreciated for his “ability to deal with complex and voluminous cases efficiently and effectively.”' Chambers & Partners 2009  

George’s experience in public law has almost exclusively arisen out of medical cases either in the context of possible reviews of decisions of the General Medical Council, other professional disciplinary bodies or coroners’ verdicts.    He has also been involved in appeals under s. 40 of the Medical Act 1983 which have raised  legal issues closer to judicial review than statutory appeals.

Inquests and public inquiries

George was recently instructed in the [2009/2010] Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Independent Inquiry representing one of the central figures on the Trust Board.   He has been involved in a number of high profile inquests, notably the lengthy inquest into the death of K. Camm in Wakefield [2008] and the Bristol chemotherapy case [2009].   He has been frequently instructed to advise in relation to potential judicial review of coroner’s verdicts.

B v GMC [2010]  Pending  review of IOP/GMC
Challenge, inter alia, that IOP took into account irrelevant considerations.

Boodoo v GMC [2004] EWHC 2712   Silber J. 

Challenge to the fairness of proceedings in which  Health Committee  concluded  alcohol dependency.

Chawla v GMC [2003] Privy Council :
Challenge to fairness of proceedings in not being given opportunity to address tribunal on influential issue – remitted to the PCC

Madan v GMC  [2001] Lloyds Rep Med 539
Judicial review of the IOC’s failure to take into account Article 6

Dhar v GMC  [1995] [Privy Council]  Lawtel C0002807
Challenge to unfairness of disciplinary proceedings in absence of doctor at the GMC

Defending doctors in the Committee on Professional Performance at the GMC (2002)  

Appeals from the GMC [2004]

Conjoined Twins ["Medicine or murder?"] - Exeter Medico Legal Society [2004]

Advocacy lectures [2005]

Disability Discrimination Lecture (Bar Council) ICSL [2006]

Member of the Disability Committee of the Bar Council  

Specialist adviser to the Bar Council (disability and mental health)