Inquests in Interesting Times Webinar - Jun 2020
Christopher Mellor has a civil and public law practice, specialising in medically related matters, including: healthcare regulatory law, clinical negligence, inquests and public inquiries.
He has extensive experience in medical disciplinary and regulatory work (e.g. MPTS hearings; before the GDC and NMC; and in Trust disciplinary hearings); in high-value clinical negligence claims (acting for both claimants and defendants); in complex and long-running inquests (including in a custodial setting); in cases involving medical treatment decisions (including emergency injunctions and declarations); and in other medical law related matters.
He has been instructed in a number of high profile GMC cases, including GMC v Dr Andrew Wakefield and others (the prosecution of the three doctors involved in the research connected with the MMR debate), and in judicial review proceedings brought against the GMC.
As regards his work in public inquiries, he was Junior Council for the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority in the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry chaired by Robert Francis KC.
View full profile »Christopher Mellor and Emma-Louise Fenelon represent different GPs in Prince Fosu Inquest into death at Harmondsworth IRC - Feb 2020
Christopher Mellor, instructed by Sam Flew at RadcliffesLeBrasseur, and Emma-Louise Fenelon instructed by James Stevenson at the MDU, are instructed to represent two different GPs at a five week jury...
Caroline Cross, Christopher Mellor and Matthew Flinn instructed in complex inquest - Nov 2019
A 36-year-old mother of three, Louise Harvey, died of a pulmonary embolism 16 days after plastic surgery. As an inpatient, one dose of prophylactic anticoagulants was given late, a second dose was not...
Law Pod UK Ep 79: Causation in Inquests - May 2019
In Episode 79 Emma-Louise Fenelon talks to Christopher Mellor about causation in inquests, and the findings of the Divisional Court in R (Chidlow) v HM Senior Coroner for Blackpool and...
The End, the Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning: Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal in Disciplinary Proceedings - Nov 2018
This seminar, with opening remarks from Richard Booth QC and chaired by Clodagh Bradley QC, will look at Erasure, Remediation and Rights of Appeal relating to professional discipline and regulatory...
Christopher Mellor acts in long-running Inquest into death following police restraint - Jul 2018
Christopher Mellor represented a Forensic Medical Examiner in the Inquest into the death of Terrence Smith, a 33-year-old man who died following being detained by police, under section 136 of the...
Christopher Mellor acted for an interested person in the Inquest into the death of 15-year-old schoolgirl, Tallulah Wilson - Jan 2014
Christopher Mellor acted for one of the interested persons in the Inquest into the death of Tallulah Wilson, the 15-year-old schoolgirl who had had an online life which included involvement with an...
Christopher Mellor’s podcast on the proposed Duty of Candour for the NHS - Jun 2013
Christopher Mellor acted for the Strategic Health Authority in the Mid Staffordshire NHS Public Inquiry. In a podcast with Hill Dickinson he discusses the final report into this Inquiry and the...
Members of 1COR acted in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust Public Inquiry - Feb 2013
Members of One Crown Office Row were involved in this inquiry, drawing on their combined expertise in clinical negligence and public law. The hearings took place from November 2010 until December...
1 Crown Office Row appears on both sides of the Professor Walker-Smith appeal - Mar 2012
Judgment has now been handed down in the appeal of Professor Walker-Smith. He challenged the 2010 General Medical Council ("GMC") Fitness to Practice Panel finding of serious professional...
GMC’s findings of fact re Dr Wakefield announced - Feb 2010
