Matthew Hill

Matthew practises in inquests and inquiries, public law and medical law.

He was Counsel to the Inquiry at the Hillsborough Inquests, the Infected Blood Inquiry and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. He represented the families of the deceased at the inquests into the deaths resulting from the Reading Terror Attacks in 2020 and was instructed by prominent core participants in the Covid-19 Public Inquiry, the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, the Westminster Bridge attack inquests and the Al-Sweady Public Inquiry. He is co-editor of the forthcoming second edition of the Inquests Book.

In medical law, Matthew acts for both claimants and defendants in clinical negligence litigation, including in catastrophic birth and spinal injury cases. He also undertakes disciplinary cases before the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service and the General Dental Council. He acts for families, doctors and medical bodies in inquests. He advises on a wide range of medico-legal issues including those relating to consent, capacity, confidentiality and data protection.

Matthew’s public law practise includes work on national security, information rights, immigration, human rights, public inquiries and major inquests. He acted for the Home Secretary in Court of Protection proceedings concerning the Novichok poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. He is a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel and he has twice been nominated as Legal 500 Public Law Junior of the Year.

In 2019 Matthew was named one of The Lawyers Hot 100.

Before coming to the Bar Matthew studied and taught modern history and worked as an historian on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.