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Jane Malca Mishcon

Jane Malca Mishcon

Position

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.

Career

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.

Memberships

Professional Negligence Bar Association.

Education

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

Mentions

London Bar

Clinical negligence

Leading junior2
Jane Mishcon –Hailsham Chambers  ‘Jane is sensible and pragmatic always, approachable and responsive and highly knowledgeable.’