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6. If matters go wrong, seek legal advice urgently. If
something goes wrong, it is advisable to seek legal advice urgently, which should reduce the risk and
protect your position.
Mr Nikhil Shah
Consultant Trauma
and Orthopaedic Surgeon
Author
Joseph McCaughley
Partner at Spencer West
www.spencer-west.com
joseph.mccaughley@spencer-west.com
FRCS(Tr & Orth), FRCS(Glasg), MCh(Orth), MS(Orth), DNB(Orth).
I provide medico legal reports in personal injury
in various conditions - trips, slips, whiplash injury,
hip surgery, complex pelvic acetabular fractures,
long bone and articular fractures, ankle, lower
limb injuries, hip/knee joint replacements,
periprosthetic fractures, soft tissue injuries and LVI cases.
Joseph has significant experience and expertise across
several specialist areas including medical law, professional negligence, and reputation protection. He acted
for the successful expert witness in overturning the
TPCO in Robinson v Mercier.
I also provide clinical negligence related reports in my specialist
area of practice concerning hip and knee replacements, revision
surgery, and trauma including pelvic-acetabular fractures.
Instructions from claimant/defendant solicitors or single joint
expert approximately (ratio 45:45:10). I provide the regional
tertiary service in pelvic-acetabular fractures.
References
1. CPR 35.3(1) and §9 Civil Justice Council Guidance for the
instruction of experts in civil claims
Contact:
Secretary Amy Brookes 0161 393 3059
Consultantcare Ltd, Riverside Buildings, Mill Lane, Cheadle, SK8 2PX
2. See, for example, Robinson v Mercier [2023] EWHC 21
(KB) at §§47 and 66.
Consultations at:
3. CPR 35 PD 35 2.2
4. EWHC 2648 (KB)
5. [2019] EWHC 1642 (QB)
6. [2020] PNLR 12
7. [2011] UKSC 13
8. s.51 Senior Courts Act 1981
9. Robinson v Mercier [2023] EWHC 21 (KB
10. s.51 (7A)(a) Senior Courts Act 1981
76 Gartside Street, Manchester M3 3EL
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Ad hoc clinics in London
Email:
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