Ros Foster > Browne Jacobson LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Browne Jacobson LLP Offices
15TH FLOOR
6 BEVIS MARKS
LONDON
EC3A 7BA
England
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Ros Foster
Work Department
Insurance and public risk.
Position
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.
Career
Qualified 1994; Breckland District Council 1993-2004; Steeles (law) LLP 2004-06; General Dental Council (GDC) 2006-08; DAC Beachcroft LLP 2008-12; joined Browne Jacobson April 2012.
Education
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).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Public sector > Administrative and public law
Fielding public law specialists with in-depth knowledge of the workings of government, as well as the health and education sectors, Browne Jacobson LLP offers the full range of services to local authorities, central government departments, social housing and emergency services providers. Key contacts include Ros Foster, Richard Barlow, Ben Standing and Laura Hughes; the entire team contributes to the key practice specialisms which span inquiries, procurement, subsidy control and other public law areas.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Public sector > Healthcare
- Public sector > Local government
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Digital content & social
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech