Hailsham Chambers

Jane’s principal areas of practice are medical law (specialising in clinical negligence and independant inquiries) and healthcare related regulatory and disciplinary cases.

In a case that established an important Court of Appeal authority on non-delegable duty of care, Jane successfully defended (with Martin Spencer QC) the liability for wrongful birth in Farraj v King’s Healthcare NHS Trust and Cytogenic DNA Services Ltd. She also chaired the inquiry into alleged misdiagnoses in the histopathology department at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

Jane is ranked as a leading junior in both The Legal 500 and Chambers UK.

Called 1979, Gray’s Inn; chair of independent inquiry into histopathology services in Bristol (2010); chair of nine independent inquiries into homicides by psychiatric patients; accredited mediator; speaker at seminars and to firms of solicitors on clinical negligence topics; former member of Bar Disciplinary Tribunal Panel.

Professional Negligence Bar Association.

Benenden School, Kent; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University (BA Hons English Language and Literature, MA).