Irwin Mitchell stands out for its distinctive focus on cases against NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups, typically involving ECHR and Human Rights Act 1998 principles. Yogi Amin acts as the firm’s national head of public law, and is known for handling end-of-life cases, challenges to government budget cuts, and judicial reviews concerning NHS and social care. Mathieu Culverhouse is an expert in community care, patient rights, and mental capacity law, primarily representing clients in applications for judicial review of healthcare decisions relating to fertility and lifesaving treatment. Mental capacity, education, and human rights specialist Angela Jackman routinely acts in deprivation of liberty cases, while Oliver Studdert is known for representing vulnerable clients in Court of Protection proceedings, utilising his extensive knowledge of children’s rights and community care.
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- Represented the mother of a child in Court of Protection proceedings relating to whether it was in the child’s best interests to undergo a kidney transplant, as well as continue receiving life-saving haemodialysis.
- Acted in a case which concerned an application by Kings College Hospital for permission to withdraw life sustaining treatment from a young man who was 27 years old. The application was opposed by members of his family, with the father acting as a family spokesman.
- Represented a client who was stabbed and received emergency treatment that restored his circulation, but he suffered a hypoxic brain injury. The medical team concluded that he experienced brain stem death and sought legal permission to withdraw treatment. The client's brother, sought a second opinion, resulting in a court declaration confirming brain stem death.
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Yogi Amin