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Huw Lloyd (Door Tenant)

(Not currently practising)

CALLED TO THE BAR 1975

Door Tenant


Clinical Negligence & Healthcare Profile

Background

 

1961-1970 City of London School

1971-1974 Leicester University

1974-1975 College of Law, London (Bar finals)

1975 called to the Bar (Middle Temple) – awarded Senior Benefactors’ Law Scholarship

 

Email: hlloyd@3serjeantsinn.com



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Directory Comments

 

Huw Lloyd is recommended in clinical negligence by leading legal directories the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

 

Solicitors say Huw Lloyd has “an excellent grasp of medico-legal issues.”  Chambers and Partners 2010

 

"Accomplished senior junior Huw Lloyd also enjoys tremendous market backing for his “terrific level of healthcare expertise and his willingness to pitch in when the going gets tough.” Chambers & Partners 2009



Nature of Practice

 

Huw Lloyd specialises in medical law, for which he is recommended by the leading legal directories. He acts on behalf of claimants and defendants, and is instructed by solicitors’ firms, medical defence organisations, the Official Solicitor, and the NHSLA. Huw’s practice includes clinical negligence cases of the utmost severity, mental health work, and medical ethics. He frequently acts on behalf of medical professionals in the General Medical Council.

 

Huw’s particular experience in medical ethics cases is extensive and in recent years he has appeared in some of the most important and high profile actions in this area. He represented the NHS Trust in the highly publicised Baby MB case, the Central Manchester Health Area NHS Trust in Re: A (conjoined twins), and the NHS trust in The NHS Trust v Ms. D (mitochondrial cytopathy). Huw’s expertise in medical ethics is exceptional and he continues to be instructed frequently in the most significant ethics cases.

 

Huw also has strong experience in mental health work, and has appeared frequently in many cases on behalf of NHS trusts, and on behalf of patients both directly and through the Official Solicitor. His practice covers issues such as capacity to consent to treatment, detention against the patient’s wishes, termination of pregnancy in the mentally disabled and many other issues.



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Reported and other cases of Interest

 

An NHS Trust v MB [2006] EWHC 507

Huw Lloyd represented the NHS Trust in this very high profile case involving a child with spinal muscular atrophy. The doctors in charge of MB’s care felt that it was “unethical (the word ‘cruel’ has been used) to continue artificially to keep him alive” and wished to remove his endo-tracheal tube.

Trust A & anor v H [2006] EWHC 1230 (Fam)

Instructed by the Official Solicitor, Huw represented H in this case concerning an adult female detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, who needed considerable surgery, against her wishes, to treat apparent ovarian cancer.

R (on the application of) SR v Huntercombe Maidenhead Hospital & ors [2005] EWHC 2361 (Admin)

Huw successfully represented the hospital in this mental health case involving a mentally disabled girl of fifteen who wished to be released from residential care. The case was unusual in that the hospital’s managers had agreed that the girl should be released, and the hospital itself had gone to court to prevent this from happening.

The NHS Trust v Ms. D [2005] EWHC 2439 (Fam)

Huw acted on behalf of this very public case involving an adult woman suffering from mitochondrial cytopathy, a terminal genetic neurological condition. The NHS Trust successfully sought a declaration, against the family’s wishes, that it was not in Ms. D’s best interests to resuscitate her should she suffer a crisis such as cardiac arrest or an infection, or to undergo invasive procedures such as mechanical ventilation or general anaesthetic.

P v Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust [2004] EWHC 1392 (QB)

Huw acted successfully on behalf of the claimant in this case alleging negligent antenatal care, specifically in failing to diagnose cloacal exstrophy.  

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust & anor v C [2004] EWHC 1657 (Fam)

Huw Lloyd, instructed by the Official Solicitor, represented C in this case, which involved an elderly lady suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. The medical professionals caring for C were of the opinion that she needed a CT scan and sought an order to undertake this scan against C’s wishes.

Halsey v Milton Keynes General NHS Trust [2004] EWCA Civ 576

Huw, led by Christopher Purchas QC, acted on behalf of Milton Keynes General NHS Trust in this complex appeal concerning the imposition of costs sanctions against successful litigants on the grounds that they have refused to take part in alternative dispute resolution.

An NHS Trust v D [2003] EWHC 2793 (Fam)

Huw acted on behalf of the claimant in this case concerning the termination of a pregnancy in a young adult suffering from schizophrenia who was admitted to hospital in 2002 under the Mental Health Act 1983.

Re: A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254

Huw, led by Adrian Whitfield QC, represented the Central Manchester Health Area NHS Trust (second respondent) in this very high profile case concerning the surgical separation of conjoined twins.

Re JT   (Adult. Refusal of Medical Treatment) [1998] 1 F.L.R. 48

Tameside and Glossop Acute Services Trust v CH  [1996] 1 FLR 762. (Caesarean Section under the Mental Health Act 1983)

Re R  (Adult: Medical Treatment) [1996] 2 FLR 99. Re C (Adult Patient: Restriction of Publicity after Death) [1996] 2 FLR 251

R v Mid Glamorgan FHSA and another, ex parte Martin   [1995] WLR 110 (Judicial review of FHSA and HA decision to withhold medical records).

Re S (Hospital Patient: Foreign Curator)  [1995] Fam 123 pregnant woman refusing to undergo Caesarean Section

Secretary of State for Home Department v Robb  [1995] 2 WLR 722 (Doctor’s right to observe prisoner’s right to refuse sustenance)

Re T   [1977] FLR (Parental refusal to undergo liver transplantation).

Re J (a minor)   (child in Care: Medical Treatment)[1972] 3 W.L.R. 507

 



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