Specialist Barristers at Alexander Barristers Chambers
- Lee Gledhill
Barrister
Registered Nurse
BA (Hons) Social Policy and Administration
Called to the Bar 1998
Lee Gledhill is a medico-legal and regulatory law specialist advocate. He has acted in several hundred medico-legal cases to date.
Lee Gledhill's practice includes: coroners inquest law, mental health law, medical law, clinical negligence, personal injury, medically related crime, care home law, care home fees law, care standards law, nursing care fees challenges, public law, clinical regulation, phamaceutical law, bio-agricultural law and general professional regulation. Lee Gledhill writes and lectures on medical and regulatory law.
Lee Gledhill comes to the Bar having had a career as a registered nurse. His specialist clinical knowledge and experience give him a clear advantage in medico-legal cases.
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Professional Regulation and Fitness to Practise Hearings
Lee
Gledhill regularly defends nurses, midwives,
doctors, dentists, social workers, teachers, the police, vets, and other
professionals facing misconduct
proceedings before
their professional regulators, including: the General Medical Council
(GMC), the Nursing
and Midwifery Council (NMC), the Health Professions Council (HPC), the
General Social Care Council (GSCC).
Lee Gledhill advises on evidence, mitigation,misconduct issues, impaired practise issues, fitness to practise evidence and procedure. He has acted in numerous professional conduct hearings, some cases lasting as long as four weeks, involving clinical or professional failures, incompetence, inappropriate personal or sexual conduct, dishonesty, fraud, and activities or conduct incompatible with a profession.
Lee Gledhill also advises on registration issues, restoration to the register following removal, and interim suspension hearings. He also advises on appeal and judicial review.
Lee Gledhill has represented over three hundred practitioners before their regulators over the past decade.
Coroners Law
A large part of Lee Gledhill's practice is coronial law.
Lee Gledhill advises on evidence and procedure in coroners' inquests. Lee Gledhill has a detailed understanding of the coroners' rules and procedure. He regularly acts for interested parties at inquests as their representative.
Lee Gledhill advises local authorities, hospitals, clinics, care homes, and commerical organisations where an unnatural, violent or unexplained death has occurred. Issues of liability, verdicts and evidence can be discussed by telephone or face to face. Alternatively, questions can be answered in written legal opinions and written advices. Judicial Review and Appeal advice is also available.
Lee Gledhill advises solicitors who are unfamiliar with the coronial process on the steps to be taken in preparation for an inquest.
Care Homes, Care Standards, Sova, PoCA & PoVA, Ofsted Law, Nursing Fees Challenges
Lee Gledhill also acts for nursing and care home owners in Care Standards Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI England) and Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW / CSSIW) matters, including Notices of Cancellation of Registration appeals to the Care Standards Tribunal (CST), and emergency home closures before a justice of the peace (magistrates courts). He also represents practitioners referred to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults list (SoVA), Protection of Vulnerable Adult lists (PoVA) and Protectionn of Children Act lists (PoCA), and List 99.
Lee Gledhill advises on challenges to NHS primary health care needs assessments and total care nursing fees. He also advises on Registered Nursing Care Contributions (RNCC), as well as challenges to the NHS via the NHS complaints system and the NHS Ombudsman. He also advises on appeals within NHS procedures, and appeals and judicial reviews in the High Court.
Additionally, Lee Gledhill represents the interests of public bodies and commercial organisations regulated by Ofsted, such as schools, children's homes, nurseries and child minders. Challenges to Ofsted reports and notices of cancellation.
Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence
Lee Gledhill has considerable experience in clinical negligence and personal injury work, acting for both claimants and defendants. He has acted in many personal injury and clinical negligence cases over the years, including intensive care failures, surgical repair errors, cosmetic surgery errors, pressure sore neglect, health and safety failures, and road traffic accidents, all leading to serious injuries. He has represented members of the public, professionals, local authorities, hospitals and care establishments in such legal actions.
Medical Law and Mental Health Law
Lee Gledhill advises on all aspects of medical law and mental health law, health policy and ethics, including issues of consent, detention under the Mental Health Act, mental capacity under the Mental Capacity Act, withdrawal of treatment, vegetative state clinical decisions, and care of the terminally ill.
Lee Gledhill provides advice and advocacy for applications in the Court of Protection and appears before Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs).
Medically Related Crime
Lee Gledhill also defends in criminal (medical) manslaughter trials at the Old Bailey and other Crown Courts, particularly where there is significant medical evidence, and in trials where top level clinical consultants and academics are to give evidence.
Lee Gledhill is highly competent in cross-examining clinical experts.
Articles and Lecture Services
Lee Gledhill writes on medico-legal issues, with a focus on nursing neglect, pressure sore cases, coroners inquests, and the patient's capacity to consent. In 2005 he came first in the British Journal of Nursing Awards, for a published medico-legal article on the prevention of pressure sores and legal implications for nursing neglect.
Lee Gledhill also lectures on medical law, coronial law, clinical negligence, care standards and general regulatory law.
Bio-Agricultural Law and Human Pharmaceuticals
Lee Gledhill also advises on other areas of regulation, including bio-agricultural law, animal welfare law, and human pharmaceutical law.
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Appointments:
Part-Time Vice-Chairman of the Professional Conduct Appeals Panel of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Lee Gledhill is the Head of Alexander Chambers.
Lee Gledhill advises on evidence, mitigation,misconduct issues, impaired practise issues, fitness to practise evidence and procedure. He has acted in numerous professional conduct hearings, some cases lasting as long as four weeks, involving clinical or professional failures, incompetence, inappropriate personal or sexual conduct, dishonesty, fraud, and activities or conduct incompatible with a profession.
Lee Gledhill also advises on registration issues, restoration to the register following removal, and interim suspension hearings. He also advises on appeal and judicial review.
Lee Gledhill has represented over three hundred practitioners before their regulators over the past decade.
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Coroners Law
A large part of Lee Gledhill's practice is coronial law.
Lee Gledhill advises on evidence and procedure in coroners' inquests. Lee Gledhill has a detailed understanding of the coroners' rules and procedure. He regularly acts for interested parties at inquests as their representative.
Lee Gledhill advises local authorities, hospitals, clinics, care homes, and commerical organisations where an unnatural, violent or unexplained death has occurred. Issues of liability, verdicts and evidence can be discussed by telephone or face to face. Alternatively, questions can be answered in written legal opinions and written advices. Judicial Review and Appeal advice is also available.
Lee Gledhill advises solicitors who are unfamiliar with the coronial process on the steps to be taken in preparation for an inquest.
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Care Homes, Care Standards, Sova, PoCA & PoVA, Ofsted Law, Nursing Fees Challenges
Lee Gledhill also acts for nursing and care home owners in Care Standards Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI England) and Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW / CSSIW) matters, including Notices of Cancellation of Registration appeals to the Care Standards Tribunal (CST), and emergency home closures before a justice of the peace (magistrates courts). He also represents practitioners referred to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults list (SoVA), Protection of Vulnerable Adult lists (PoVA) and Protectionn of Children Act lists (PoCA), and List 99.
Lee Gledhill advises on challenges to NHS primary health care needs assessments and total care nursing fees. He also advises on Registered Nursing Care Contributions (RNCC), as well as challenges to the NHS via the NHS complaints system and the NHS Ombudsman. He also advises on appeals within NHS procedures, and appeals and judicial reviews in the High Court.
Additionally, Lee Gledhill represents the interests of public bodies and commercial organisations regulated by Ofsted, such as schools, children's homes, nurseries and child minders. Challenges to Ofsted reports and notices of cancellation.
Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence
Lee Gledhill has considerable experience in clinical negligence and personal injury work, acting for both claimants and defendants. He has acted in many personal injury and clinical negligence cases over the years, including intensive care failures, surgical repair errors, cosmetic surgery errors, pressure sore neglect, health and safety failures, and road traffic accidents, all leading to serious injuries. He has represented members of the public, professionals, local authorities, hospitals and care establishments in such legal actions.
Medical Law and Mental Health Law
Lee Gledhill advises on all aspects of medical law and mental health law, health policy and ethics, including issues of consent, detention under the Mental Health Act, mental capacity under the Mental Capacity Act, withdrawal of treatment, vegetative state clinical decisions, and care of the terminally ill.
Lee Gledhill provides advice and advocacy for applications in the Court of Protection and appears before Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs).
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Lee Gledhill advises on Public Law
challenges to decisions of public bodies, including local authorities,
national bodies and government departments, under the Human Rights Act
1988, and via judicial review or appeal.
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Medically Related Crime
Lee Gledhill also defends in criminal (medical) manslaughter trials at the Old Bailey and other Crown Courts, particularly where there is significant medical evidence, and in trials where top level clinical consultants and academics are to give evidence.
Lee Gledhill is highly competent in cross-examining clinical experts.
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Articles and Lecture Services
Lee Gledhill writes on medico-legal issues, with a focus on nursing neglect, pressure sore cases, coroners inquests, and the patient's capacity to consent. In 2005 he came first in the British Journal of Nursing Awards, for a published medico-legal article on the prevention of pressure sores and legal implications for nursing neglect.
Lee Gledhill also lectures on medical law, coronial law, clinical negligence, care standards and general regulatory law.
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Bio-Agricultural Law and Human Pharmaceuticals
Lee Gledhill also advises on other areas of regulation, including bio-agricultural law, animal welfare law, and human pharmaceutical law.
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Appointments:
Part-Time Vice-Chairman of the Professional Conduct Appeals Panel of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Lee Gledhill is the Head of Alexander Chambers.
Contact us in confidence without obligation on 0845 652 0451 if you would like to speak to Lee Gledhill about your case.