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Matthew Hill
Position
Matthew practises in public law, medical law and inquiries and inquests. He has acted as First Junior Counsel to the Hillsborough Inquests, and is currently instructed as Lead Junior Counsel to the Infected Blood Inquiry and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
In medical law, Matthew acts for both claimants and defendants in clinical negligence litigation, including in catastrophic birth and spinal injury cases. He also undertakes disciplinary cases before the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service and the General Dental Council. He acts for families, doctors and medical bodies in inquests. He advises on a wide range of medico-legal issues including those relating to consent, capacity, confidentiality and data protection.
Matthew’s public law practise includes work on national security, information rights, immigration, human rights, public inquiries and major inquests. He acted for the Home Secretary in Court of Protection proceedings concerning the novichok poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. He is a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel and he has acted in numerous public inquiries and major inquests including the Al-Sweady Public Inquiry, the Detainee Inquiry, and the Westminster Bridge Inquests.
Career
Call: 2009; Inner Temple.
In 2019 Matthew was named one of The Lawyers Hot 100.
Education
University College Oxford: Modern History BA (Hons) – first, Historical Research M.St.- distinction; City University London GDL – Distinction, BVC – Outstanding.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Matthew Hill – 1 Crown Office Row ‘Matthew is simply the strongest inquest and inquiries junior in the market. Fair-minded and trusted.‘
1 Crown Office Row, an ‘excellent chambers with huge depth of barristers‘, combines experience of human rights law, clinical negligence, and personal injury with stand-out expertise in inquests and inquiries: Peter Skelton KC is currently acting in a number of major inquests and inquiries, including for families of victims in the Thirwall Inquiry into deaths connected to the murder of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, and for the Metropolitan Police in the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Neil Sheldon KC is acting for UK Government Investments (the government-owned holding company which is the Post Office’s sole shareholder) in the Police Office Horizon IT Inquiry, while in inquests work, Matthew Hill acts for the families of the deceased in the 2020 Reading terror attack. Leanne Woods, experienced in inquests, was instructed for the Department of Health and Social Care in the infected blood inquiry.
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Matthew Hill –1 Crown Office Row ‘Excellent advocate, has a really good manner with clients, aggressive negotiator.’