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Serjeants' Inn Chambers
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Michael Walsh
- Phone020 7427 5000
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Position
Michael balances a caseload of complex and high-value clinical negligence matters for both claimants and defendants, and has significant experience in cerebral palsy and other birth injuries, brain injury, spinal injury and brachial plexus injury claims, and similar catastrophic injuries. Having been led and solely instructed on matters up to the value of £10m, Michael also advises in professional negligence matters in related personal injury and clinical negligence claims of significant value, having now acted in healthcare and related injury matters from Inquest to trial and on appeal for more than 19 years. Michael regularly represents the full range of Properly Interested Persons at Article 2 and jury Inquests, including NHS Trusts, individual clinicians, Care homes, and families, arising from individual consultations or alleged systemic failures in care, including suicide whilst in informal and formal detention. He also advises on Judicial Review of Coroners’ decisions. Having developed particular expertise and interest in psychiatric injuries and pain management, Michael also acts as co-editor of the Journal of Observational Pain.
Education
King Edward VI, Aston; Goldsmiths College, London (1993 BA (Hons) 1st); City University (1994-95 DipLaw); Inns of Court School of Law (1995-96 Bar Vocational Course, very competent); Blackstone Scholar of the Middle Temple in 1994; Benefactors’ Scholar of the Middle Temple in 1994 and 1995.