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Medical law
Clinical negligence
Leanne practises in all areas of clinical negligence and personal injury, acting for both claimants and defendants. She has drafted statements of case and advised in claims involving doctors and dentists and appears in hearings in both the High Court and county courts. She also has some experience of costs’ applications in clinical negligence cases.
Medical discipline
Leanne has built up a considerable amount of experience in medical disciplinary work, regularly advising in cases involving doctors and dentists at the GMC and GDC. She has been instructed to appear in front of the Interim Orders Panel at the GMC. Recently she acted as junior counsel in a long-running, complex and widely-publicised case against a consultant radiologist accused of serious professional misconduct following a major breast cancer scare.
Inquests
Leanne has extensive experience of inquests, including those held under Art 2 ECHR. She regularly represents families, NHS Trusts, individual practitioners and PCTs in inquests around the country. Recent cases of interest include:
• representing a prison GP in a death in prison custody inquest
• representing a local health board in an inquest into a death in police custody. The Court inquired into the adequacy of arrangements for an appropriate "place of safety" under s136 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
• representing a local health board in an inquest into the death of a teenager who was well known to, and under the care of psychiatric services, in Bridgend Wales.
Medical ethics and mental health
Leanne has a particular interest in medical ethics and mental health work, having studied mental health law during her LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania. Leanne gained specific experience of this type of work when representing clients with significant mental health problems in criminal trials.
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