Gabriel Beeby

Having previously worked at both the General Medical Council and a firm of specialist healthcare solicitors, Gabriel is able to draw on a depth and breadth of experience in matters of clinical negligence and professional regulation exceeding his call.

Clinical Negligence

With a busy paperwork and court practise, Gabriel has been instructed in a host of clinical negligence matters, some recent cases concerning:

o     Sub-standard peri-operative care

o     Surgical injury

o     Failed sterilisation and wrongful conception

o     Provision of out-of-hours GP services

o     Causation in paediatric oncology (Oligodendroglioma)

o     Obstetric care

Inquests

Gabriel appears regularly in coroners’ courts and has represented the interests of families at inquests concerned with issues ranging from product liability for surgical implants to prescribing following gastric band surgery and failures to diagnose and treat.

Disciplinary/Professional regulation

Gabriel has in-depth experience of proceedings before the GMC's committees and has acted for doctors facing sanctions before Fitness to Practise Panels. His cases have included resisting allegations of self prescribing, and defending against allegations of impaired fitness to practise by way of convictions and mental ill health. He is also instructed on behalf of Nurses appearing before the Nursing & Midwifery Council.

Cases of interest

Sutcliffe v Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust [2008] EWCA Civ 179

Assisted leading Counsel in a claim following paralysis during an elective caesarean section and which raised the ‘doctrine’ of res ipsa locquitor.

Other

Gabriel regularly undertakes pro bono work and has recently given talks on

o         Trust Assurance & Safety: The future of healthcare regulation

o         Special Damages: Ogden 6 and periodical payments following Thompstone

o         The performance review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council