Russell-Cooke LLP

Russell-Cooke LLP

Lawyers

Dominic Fairclough

Work Department

Clinical negligence, personal injury and inquests

Position

Dominic is a partner in the personal injury and clinical negligence team.

Dominic’s expertise covers all areas of clinical negligence and significant personal injury cases including fatal accidents, obstetric claims and neurological injury. He also has extensive experience of representing bereaved families as their advocate in Coroners Courts relating to deaths in hospital and in the workplace.

Career

Dominic trained at Evill and Coleman, becoming a partner in 2000. He joined Russell-Cooke on the merger of the two firms in 2005. He was Managing Partner of Russell-Cooke between 2013-2015.

Languages

French

Memberships

Member of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)Member of INQUEST Lawyers GroupTrustee and Board Member at the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability, PutneyClinical negligence panel member of Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA)Clinical negligence panel member of The Law Society.

Education

Dominic studied Politics and French at Loughborough University.

He then undertook the CPE and LPC at the University of Wolverhampton before qualifying as a solicitor in 1997.

Mentions

Insurance • London

Clinical negligence: claimant

Insurance • London

Personal injury: claimant