Work Department

Clinical NegligencePersonal InjuryDisease

Position

Alastair acts for both Claimants and Defendants in Personal Injury and Professional Negligence work, but has an exclusively Claimant practice in Clinical Negligence. He has represented clients before all levels of the Judiciary, including the House of Lords.

His PI work encompasses maximum severity head and spinal injury litigation and his clinical negligence work includes cerebral palsy and other birth injury as well as surgical mismanagement.

Alistair is Head of the Industrial Disease Litigation Group at St John's Building's.

Education

Hulme Grammar School, Oldham; Oxford University (1988 BA; MA); Polytechnic of Central London (1990 Diploma in Law).

Mentions

Northern Circuit • Regional Bar

Clinical negligence

LEADING JUNIORS2

Alastair Wright – St John’s Buildings ‘Alastair has a calm and reassuring manner in even the most challenging of cases. As a result, he is greatly appreciated by clients, and his straightforward approach makes him a very impressive advocate.'

Northern Circuit • Regional Bar

Personal injury

LEADING JUNIORS3

Alastair Wright – St John’s Buildings 'It is always an absolute pleasure to work alongside Alastair. He has a calm and reassuring manner in even the most challenging of cases, and as a result, he is greatly appreciated by clients. His straightforward approach makes him a very impressive advocate.'