Vanessa McKinlay
Call 2000 (Middle Temple)
Qualifications LLB and Bar Vocational Course at the University of the West of England. Harmsworth Scholar Middle Temple. LL.M Medical Law, Cardiff University.
Professional Membership Medico-legal Society, Personal Injury Bar Association
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Background
Prior to being called to the Bar in 2000, Vanessa worked as a Senior Chartered Physiotherapist in the NHS and in private practice. During her ten years of clinical experience she specialised in the treatment of neurological conditions.
Areas of Law
Vanessa has experience of a range of Claimant and Defendant work in the field of personal injury. She is experienced in employers’ liability claims, road traffic matters, occupiers’ liability and highways accidents.
Personal Injury
- Claimant and Defendant work including employers’ liability, occupiers’ liability, road traffic cases, tripping and slipping accidents and industrial injuries.
- Clinical negligence
- Dental negligence.
- Mental Health Review Tribunals.
- Coroners’ Inquests including deaths in custody.
Clinical Negligence
Vanessa has developed a busy clinical negligence practice, this being a field for which she has a particular enthusiasm. Cases in which she has acted have included the following:
- Epiphyseal injuries in minors
- Obstetric and gynaecological cases
- Ophthalmic cases
- Dental negligence
- Orthopaedic surgery cases
- General practitioners’ negligence
Vanessa completed a Masters degree in Medical Law in 2005, gaining a distinction.
Reported Cases
- Evans v. Amicus Healthcare and others [2003] EWHC 2161
- Evans v. Amicus Healthcare and others [2003] EWCA Civ 727.
Recommendations
Chambers UK 2012
- Clinical Negligence: Group head Vanessa McKinlay was previously a senior NHS physiotherapist. She has a notable reputation in the region and impresses sources with her quick thinking.
Articles
- ‘Consent to IVF Treatment’ Family Law Sept. 2004 vol 34
