Scope of Duty and Causation: Chester v Afshar Revisited in Leeds - Feb 2020
Clinical Negligence
Jim has significant experience of clinical negligence claims, and is regularly instructed on behalf of patients and their families as well as by healthcare trusts and medical defence organisations. He has a particular interest in consent cases and in material contribution issues. He is advising on a number of cases relating to developmental dysplasia of the hips.
Selected Cases
- CN & GN v Poole BC[2019] UKSC 25: UK Supreme Court considered the extent to which local authorities and their employees owe a common law duty to protect children from harm caused by third parties.
- Appeared (unled) on behalf of an NHS Trust in the trial of a £1m cervical cancer claim.
- ABC v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust: Acted as junior counsel to Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel QC and Henry Witcomb QC in the Court of Appeal in an important case on consent and confidentiality obligations in relation to genetic conditions.
- Junior counsel for the Defendant in a high value spinal cord injury case.
- Represented an NHS Trust in defending a complex case concerning a failure to detect a cancerous lesion on the brain.
- Defended a GP accused of failing to diagnose a cerebral infarction.
- Advised the claimant on limitation in a claim relating to delayed diagnosis of skin cancer.
- Defended a dentist in a periodontal disease case.
Jim Duffy represents family of Natasha Wild - Dec 2019
Jim Duffy has represented the family of Natasha Wild at the 8-day inquest into the 23 year-old's death in November 2016. Natasha was stabbed by her boyfriend, Lloyd Brackenbury, who suffered from...
1COR Brighton’s annual Ghulam Hussain Volleyball Cup is here! - Jul 2019
Each year, 1COR Brighton raise money for the Rockinghorse Appeal and remember fellow barrister Ghulam Hussain. This hugely popular event is going from strength to strength in its 9th year with 15...
Protecting children from harm: CN & GN v Poole Borough Council - Jun 2019
Protecting children from harm: Supreme Court hands down key decision on tort of negligence. In an important decision on the liability of social welfare services and public authorities more generally,...
Jim Duffy and Jo Moore appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown - Jan 2019
1 Crown Office Row is delighted to announce that Jim Duffy and Jo Moore have been appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown (C Panel). Their appointment will be effective from 1st March 2019. ...
Jim Duffy in medical ‘neglect’ inquest - Nov 2018
Jim Duffy has appeared for the family of Joyce Patterson at her inquest. Mrs Patterson died on 8 November 2017 having being struck by a train shortly after absconding from St Helier Hospital in...
Jim Duffy appears in judicial review over murder conviction - Oct 2018
Jim Duffy, led by Felicity Gerry QC of Carmelite Chambers, has appeared before a Divisional Court challenging a decision by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) not to refer the case of Anthony...
Seven 1COR members in landmark Supreme Court case - Jul 2018
The Supreme Court will today begin hearing the appeal in CN & GN v Poole Borough Council. The case will consider the extent to which local authorities owe a common law duty to protect from harm...
Jim Duffy writes about his experiences at the Paris Bar for Counsel Magazine - May 2018
In 2016 Jim Duffy dusted off his French legal dictionary and headed to Paris as part of the London-Paris Bar Exchange. You can read more about "one of the most memorable experiences of [his] career"...
Jim Duffy in Subject Access Request win for GP - Feb 2018
Jim Duffy has successfully defended a GP who refused to comply with a Subject Access Request made by a father in respect of his children’s medical records. A Child Protection Plan was in place...
Gideon Barth, Jim Duffy, Lizanne Gumbel QC and Mark Wainwright running the London and Brighton Marathons - Jan 2018
Training has already begun for our members running the Marathon this year. We couldn’t be prouder of them undertaking this physical challenge in aid of such good causes and look forward to cheering...
Law Pod UK Ep. 17: Prospects for the Infected Blood Inquiry - Nov 2017
Theresa May has announced a statutory inquiry into how contaminated blood transfusions infected thousands of people with hepatitis C and HIV, now known in 2019 as the 'Infected Blood Inquiry'....
Clinical negligence and the duty to disclose: full house of 1COR members in high profile Court of Appeal case - Jun 2017
Five members of Chambers appeared before the Court of Appeal in ABC v St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and others. The Appellant, known as ABC, appealed against the strike out of her...
Jim Duffy acts for family in suicide case where Adequate and Appropriate precautions not taken - Apr 2017
An inquest jury has concluded that a young father "was not properly and adequately assessed and reviewed" and that "adequate and appropriate precautions were not taken to manage" his risk of suicide....
Jim Duffy in Successful Unfair Dismissal Claim - Mar 2017
The Employment Tribunal in Cardiff has given judgment in the case of Eirian Morris v Carmarthenshire County Council. Mr Morris was dismissed from his role as Ski Centre Coordinator at Pembrey Country...
UK Human Rights Blog is pick of best legal bloggers by The Times - Feb 2017
1 Crown Office Row's UK Human Rights Blog and Adam Wagner have been featured in The Times today in a feature about the rise of legal blogging. Jonathan Ames has written a feature in The Times...
Jim Duffy in TUPE unfair dismissal win - Oct 2015
Jim Duffy has successfully represented three nursery workers dismissed last year when the local government contract they were working under was awarded to a new contractor. Jim, instructed by...
We send a team to annual charity beach volleyball tournament organised by our Brighton Chambers - Jul 2015
Our Brighton Chambers hosted their annual beach volleyball tournament on 3 July and, for the first time, we sent a team from London to participate. We were not last but were some way off winning! ...
Jim Duffy has returned to full-time practice after a year spent in the Supreme Court - Oct 2014
Jim Duffy has returned to full-time practice following a year as Judicial Assistant to Lord Reed and Lord Hodge at the UK Supreme Court and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is currently...
1COR are delighted to announce that Lois Williams and Jim Duffy have accepted our offer of tenancy - Sep 2013
