Hugh Preston

Hugh Preston KC specialises predominantly in clinical negligence, product liability, consumer law and all aspects of group litigation and representative actions, but he also maintains a broad commercial litigation practice. In his consumer law practice, he is currently instructed in group actions ranging across a wide spectrum of legal sectors including Product Liability (including group litigation against AstraZeneca UK Limited re. the Covid-19 Vaccine damage and against various defendants in Textured Breast Implant claims (causing a rare type of cancer)), various ground-breaking consumer law group/representative actions, and a group action against the Care Quality Commission under human rights legislation.  He has previously been instructed in a number of high profile group actions including the PIP Breast Implant Litigation and the Pinnacle Hip Implant Litigation.  In 2010 he appeared in O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur-the only case under the EC product liability directive ever to have reached the House of Lords/Supreme Court, having been referred to the European Court of Justice in 2006 and 2009. In his clinical negligence practice he is regularly instructed in very high value birth injury claims as well as a wide range of claims involving infant deaths, abdominal injuries, consent issues etc.  In his commercial practice Hugh undertakes a wide range of commercial litigation including general contractual disputes, sale of goods, civil fraud, partnership disputes and urgent injunctions.

Eton College; Durham University (1992, BA hons, theology).