Tim Hodgetts, Simon Lindsay, and Hannah Taylor collectively lead a ‘professional and knowledgeable’ team at Bevan Brittan LLP. It is renowned for its work supporting public and independent sector health and care organisations, both providers and commissioners. Its client base covers the NHS, local authorities, the housing sector, and charities. Other major clients include independent and third sector organisations. In team news, Amrita Hurst joined from Bates Wells in July 2023, and Amanda Wright-Kluger joined from Browne Jacobson LLP in September 2023. Susan Trigg is now at DAC Beachcroft LLP.
Testimonials
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‘Excellent team, strengths across levels of seniority from partners to trainees. A real standout firm.’
‘Hannah Taylor is an absolute star. There is nothing she doesn't know about health care law, she is absolutely on top of her cases, gives clear and robust advice and has great credibly with the court. She and her whole team are tremendous.’
‘They are now one of the few Court of Protection healthcare teams who can claim substantive experience from the bottom to the top.’
‘Efficient, thoughtful, and big on details. Bevan Brittan are the best of the Healthcare bunch. It's a pleasure being instructed by them. They have interesting cases and brief clearly and effectively.’
‘Hannah Taylor is a total star. Knows the law backwards, leaves no stone unturned in getting the right results for her clients. Julia Jones is superb.’
‘Amrita Hurst has a wealth of knowledge that informs her expert approach to strategy planning and client care. She is committed to her cases, and is a delight to work with. ’
‘Simon Lindsay, solid and safe with oodles of experience; just never gets flustered, even at the trickiest moments. Hannah Taylor, amazingly thorough and hard working down to the tiniest detail.'
'Ruth Atkinson Wilks - excellent practice in COP and has been in leading cases on complex issues. Understands and uses the law well. Hannah Taylor - great attention to detail. Cares about the client and the issues.'
Key clients
- NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board
- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
- Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
- University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
- NHS Devon Integrated Care Board
Work highlights
- Representing the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine in intervening in a Supreme Court appeal, specifically in relation to an issue on the scope of reporting restriction orders, the outcome of which is likely to have a significant effect on the practice in the Court of Protection regarding identifying treating health and social care professionals moving forward.
- Represented St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in obtaining declarations from the court that an individual was brain stem dead and, therefore, it was lawful to withdraw his life-sustaining organ support.
- Represented University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in an application to move a patient, who had failed to understand, acknowledge, or take medical advice on her prognosis, to a palliative care treatment plan which included the withdrawal of life-saving dialysis.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Tim Hodgetts, Simon Lindsay, Hannah Taylor