Ros Foster

Insurance and public risk.

Ros has been instructed on a variety of threatened judicial reviews against the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and the Local Government Ombudsman and advises NHS England in relation to vires, judicial review and consultation and performers list matters.

Ros acts for all public services ombudsman and auditors in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including the National Audit Office. She regularly advises the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority and a range of NHS bodies on public law and information law matters. Ros is currently acting for the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (“PSA”) in the first judicial review challenge to a decision taken pursuant to the PSA’s voluntary accredited registers scheme.

Ros has been a partner at the firm since May 2013, having joined from the public law team at DAC Beachcroft LLP in April 2012. She has developed her practice acting mainly for regulatory and health clients. She trained in local government and spent 11 years working in house dealing with a wide range of local government and both contentious and non-contentious public law matters.

University of Birmingham (1993 LLB (Hons) Bachelor of Law); De Montfort University, Leicester (2003 LPC; won the Law Society Award for Outstanding Performance on the Legal Practice Course in July 2003).