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Suzanne Lambert

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Position

Suzanne Lambert has a broad civil and public law practice. She undertakes a wide range of common law cases, with a particular focus on healthcare and medical law, including clinical negligence and inquests, but also contractual matters involving institutions and GPs, cases involving ethical questions such as consent to treatment, human rights, mental health law, confidentiality issues and product liability. She also has extensive experience in personal injury, judicial review, professional discipline and regulatory law, as well as public inquiries. She is recommended as a leading junior by Legal 500.

She is instructed by both Claimants and Defendants in a wide variety of cases arising from allegations of clinical negligence. She acts in both low-value cases as well as high-value cases involving serious and catastrophic injuries (for example, cerebral palsy, spinal injuries, neurological injuries, loss of fertility, IVF and surrogacy, and delayed diagnosis of cancer). She has experience with complex legal issues such as contributory negligence, apportionment between Defendants, fatal accident claims, consent, and secondary victim claims.

Career

Call: 2002; Lincoln’s Inn.

Memberships

ALBA; Human Rights Law Association; Liberty; JUSTICE; South Eastern Circuit.

Education

St Josephs Convent, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies; Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, USA (1997 BA Geography and Environmental Studies); Exeter College, Oxford (2001 BA Jurisprudence).

Leisure

Travel, tennis, cooking, dance, football.