Deka Chambers

Lisa Dobie is recognised as a leading junior in the fields of clinical negligence, personal injury and police law.

Lisa represents Claimants and Defendants. She has a particular expertise in acting for public bodies, often where there are issues over the existence and scope of a duty of care / vicarious liability / non delegable duties.

Lisa is recognised for her ability to put witnesses at ease. She gets to the heart of the issues with experts and provides calm and confident advice. She is instructed in high value cases involving brain and spinal injuries in her own right and as a junior.

She represents Claimants and Defendants across the full range of clinical negligence work. Her work includes fatal accidents, birth injury cases, secondary victims, delays in diagnosis, spinal injuries and brain injury cases. Her claims range from the lower end of the multi-track to multi-million pound cases requiring management of a number of liability and quantum experts.

She is frequently instructed in complex cases where the existence of a duty of care may be in issue, where a claim under the Human Rights Act 1998 is included, or where there are substantive issues on vicarious liability and/or non-delegable duties.

Lisa has expertise across the full spectrum of personal injury work, including fatal accidents, road traffic accidents, highways claim, occupiers’ liability, employers’ liability, stress at work claim and historic sexual and physical abuse.

Lisa represents a number of forces across all malfeasance and assaults claims, Human Rights Act claims, road traffic collisions involving the emergency services, police dog and police horse cases, employers’ liability and stress at work.

Lisa’s practice areas of personal injury, clinical negligence and police law overlap with her Human Rights practice. When acting for public bodies, Lisa is often defending claims which include a claim under the Human Right Act 1998.

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