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John Foy KC
Call: 1969 | Silk: 1998
John Foy KC has vast experience in all aspects of personal injury and clinical negligence.
He does high-value road traffic accident, employers’, public and occupiers’ liability cases, with particular experience in carbon monoxide poisoning and industrial disease, which he has conducted since the 1970s and mental health as a former chair of the Mental Health Tribunal.
Frequently they require a periodical payments order and he frequently represents high earning professional people. He is instructed by most of the leading personal injury and clinical negligence claimant firms from all over the country. John acted for the coal miners in their ground breaking group litigation on respiratory disease which led directly to the setting up of the miners’ compensation scheme. Over the years he has been in many leading cases.
His clinical negligence practice covers all aspects of the subject including birth trauma, failure to diagnose, surgical errors, toxic shock et cetera.
He has a particular knowledge of and expertise in costs, especially in a personal injury or clinical negligence context. He chaired the committee which drafted the initial solicitor/counsel conditional fee agreement, was responsible for numerous subsequent versions, and for many years was chair of the Bar Council CFA committee.
Most of his cases concern traumatic brain injury, often involving children, quadriplegia and paraplegia, multiple injuries and amputations. He frequently represents a high earning professional people. These cases often involve periodical payments orders.
Notable Personal Injury cases
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Beall v Euro Construction Scaffolding Ltd
Industrial exposure to asbestos in the 1980s resulting in death.
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Lynch v JHH Engineers Ltd et al
Fell off his own ladder but established liability subject to contributory negligence.
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CB v British Cycling Federation
Brain damage caused by crashing during a cyclocross race.
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Beveridge v Homan/Evans Transport Ltd
Brain damage caused by falling from a lorry during loading.
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ESC v CCM
Carbon monoxide poisoning of a child at home in tenanted accommodation.
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Beveridge v Homan/Evans Transport Ltd
Fell off a lorry during loading
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Jones v Gavin Jones Ltd
When one of a tree cutting team, struck by a heavy branch when in the drop zone suffering head injury.
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Seales v PIL Membranes Ltd
Struck by a metal bar at work causing a left carotid artery dissection resulting in a stroke.
His clinical negligence practice covers all aspects of the subject including birth trauma, failure to diagnose, surgical errors, toxic shock et cetera.
Notable Clinical Negligence & Healthcare cases
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AB v Dr Handa
Failure to diagnose diabetes resuting in leg amputation of a child.
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Stephens v Brighton and Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust
Surgical error in a craniotomy following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage which resulted in a ruptured aneurysm.
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HXC v Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
The claimant was a known suicide risk but the Defendants failed to take reasonable steps to prevent a suicide attempt resulting in the claimant suffering tetraplegia.
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