Medical law

Matthew deals with claims arising out of a great variety of clinical situations and specialities, ranging from the relatively modest to the very substantial.

He is frequently instructed to defend claims un-led where the claimant is represented by leading counsel. A recent example was the case of Braithwaite v. Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust, where Matthew persuaded Stanley Burnton J. that the limit to the Court's power to order an interim payment contained in CPR 25.7(4) should be construed as referring only to the likely amount of the capital element of the final award of damages, excluding any award of periodical payments - in spite of strenuous opposition from Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel QC.