Author: Imogen Hildred

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Charles Foster represented Dr. Dhanuson Dharmasena in the first ever prosecution under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. Dr. Dharmasena was a junior doctor who attended a Somali woman in labour. The woman had been infibulated as a child, and had subsequently been deinfibulated. The doctor made an incision through scar tissue in order to catheterise […]

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Bridget Dolan represented the parents of Sally Mays at the inquest into her death in October 2015. The Senior Coroner for Hull found that the decision by senior psychiatric nursing staff to refuse Sally a hospital bed when she was in obvious need of admission, was an “unconscionable and quixotic decision” following a “lamentable”, “perfunctory and […]

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George Hugh-Jones QC has secured the acquittal of a spinal surgeon at the GMC. The surgeon faced multiple charges, including substandard surgery and four cases of dishonesty. George Hugh-Jones QC was instructed by Radcliffes LeBrasseur. […]

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