Hugh Davies

Barrister. Specialist areas of practice: personal injury, clinical negligence, and regulatory (General Medical Council). Cases of interest: Vellino v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police [2002] 2 WLR 218 CA (considered whether the police owed a duty to prevent an escaping prisoner from exposing himself to a foreseeable risk of injury (claimant)); Cross v Kirklees MBC [1998] 1 All ER 561 (duty of a highway authority to clear away snow and ice (defendant)); Johnson v Stockport MBC [2002] (unreported (lead article on the front page of the Manchester Evening News on 4 February 2002), dyslexic pupil recovered from LEA who had failed to diagnose and treat his condition (claimant)); Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club v Blackpool BC [1990] 1 WLR 1195 CA (defendant’s duty to consider tender submitted in correct form (defendant)).

Cheltenham Grammar School (now Pates Grammar); Lincoln College, Oxford University (Jurisprudence 2(1)).