ALEXANDER BARRISTERS - Key Persons

David Welch

Job Titles:
  • Employment Law
  • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence
  • Specialist
David Welch practises in: employment law, crime, general regulation and other civil matters including family and infant settlements. David Welch accepts instructions from solicitors, plus various private and public organisations including a number of NHS Trusts. He is also licensed to accept instructions under the Bar Direct Public Access Scheme. He conducts medico employment law and general employment law cases. He is able to offer workplace training in Employment Law, Dispute Resolution and on investigation/handling of disciplinary and grievances at employer level. David Welch undertakes personal injury law work and clinical negligence law work. He also represents employees injured at work, and those who have claims related to stress at work. David Welch also has a strong practice in debt recovery, particularly in the healthcare sector. David Welch also defends healthcare practitioners before their regulators and represents families in school admissions and exclusion appeals. David Welch also practises in criminal law (inc. serious crimes, fraud, and proceeds of crime recovery matters). [VAT Number: 991 6134 02] David Welch is also a specialist in debt recovery management, particularly in relation to the recovery of salary over-payments and inappropriate employee salary and expenses claims. David Welch advises and defends in criminal cases, including serious crimes, money crimes, fraud, and large asset confiscation of proceeds of crime.

Lee Gledhill - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Legal and Regulatory Law Specialist
  • Professional Regulation and Fitness to Practise Hearings
  • Specialist Barristers at Alexander Chambers
Lee Gledhill is a medico-legal and regulatory law specialist advocate. He has acted in numerous medico-legal cases to date, and in more than seven hundred professional conduct, fitness to practise and regulatory law cases (including before the MPTS, GMC, NMC, HPC, HCPC, GDC, GSCC). He has appeared before most healthcare regulatory tribunals, many non-medical regulators, and in the civil and criminal courts, coroners courts, the High Court, the Central Criminal Court (The Old Bailey), and the Court of Appeal. Lee Gledhill has particular expertise in defending senior doctors (Consultants, Registrars, Specialists, Professors, in Fitness to Practise FTP and Interim Orders (IOP) hearings at the General Medical Council (GMC), Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service (MPTS)). He is highly regarded by clients and gets results through working closely with clients in order to maximise a doctors prospects of success. Lee Gledhill has a track record of defending doctors and other registered professionals over a period of more than thirteen years. Lee Gledhill's practice covers many medico-legal areas, including policy development, Data Protection Act (DPA) matters, and legal areas ancilliary to daily working life for clinicians and clinical establishments. He also undertakes Medical Performers List cases (suspensions, removals), representing doctors, Trusts, GP Consortia, and other clinical organisations. Lee Gledhill's practice includes: coroners inquest law, mental health law, medical law, clinical negligence, personal injury, medically related crime, care home law, nhs continuing care fees law, care standards law, public law, employment law, clinical regulation, pharmaceutical law and product liability, licensing law, bio-agricultural law and animal welfare health regulation, police regulation and conduct law, healthcare contracts policies and audits law, trading standards law general professional regulation (including professional fitness to practise cases) and reputation management in the media Lee Gledhill also writes and lectures on medical and regulatory law. Lee Gledhill comes to the Bar having had a career as a registered nurse in the NHS and in the private sector. His specialist clinical knowledge and experience give him a clear advantage in medico-legal cases. He is highly experienced in regulatory law and regularly represents practitioners at various disciplinary hearings and appeals, regulatory hearings and appeals in the High Court, and in relation to NHS and private contractual matters concerning healthcare provision. He also advises on data protection and confidentiality. [VAT Number: 733 5236 45] Lee Gledhill also acts for GP practices, hospitals, nursing and care home owners in Care Quality Commission (CQC), 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 Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Children Barring lists (SVGA), Protection of Vulnerable Adult lists (PoVA) and Protection of Children Act lists (PoCA), List 99, CCfW. Lee Gledhill advises on challenges to NHS primary health care needs assessments, NHS continuing healthcare assessments, 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, in challenges of Ofsted reports and Ofsted notices of cancellation, and Ofsted appeals. Lee Gledhill also advises on and appears in cases related to Special Educational Needs claims for funding and support. 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 unit failures, surgical repair errors, cosmetic surgery errors, pressure sore injury causation - resulting from neglect, health and safety failures (for example: hot water mixer failures) and road traffic accidents (RTAs), all leading to serious injuries. He has represented members of the public, various professionals, local authorities, hospitals, public and private care establishments, in legal actions. His own clinical expertise and experience is an asset in such cases. 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 1983 & 2007, mental capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, 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), and the Court of Protection. Lee Gledhill provides Independent Legal Chairing Services for healthcare and other organisations. 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. Also misfeasance in public office claims, claims for damages and costs. Lee Gledhill provides advice to local authorities undergoing a Serious Case Review in relation to the death of a child, an elderly person, or other individual in their care or ottherwise under local authority responsibility. Independent co-authorship of Serious Case Reviews available, by arrangement, with Paula Clements of Counsel. 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. Lee Gledhill advises on Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks, and challenges to the information recorded, for all health and other professionals working with vulnerable adults and children, who require special ISA and CRB clearance. He also advises and represents doctors in relation to other criminal allegations, including sexual assualt, speeding and road traffic offences. Lee Gledhill also acts in large asset proceeds of crime confiscation cases. 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 won first prize 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.

Rowan Morton

Job Titles:
  • Barrister
  • Lawyer
  • Registered Professionals
Rowan Morton has significant experience in representing interested parties at inquests. She has acted in numerous inquests looking at unlawful killings, death by clinical accident or neglect, deaths from road traffic accidents, and health and safety breaches leading to deaths Rowan Morton advises public and private organisations, individuals and family members on coronial law and procedure. Rowan Morton also appears as an advocate for interested parties at inquests. Rowan Morton has a strong practice in defending registered professionals and regulated practitioners in a variety of regulatory forums (fitness to practise cases - FTP), including the General Medical Council (GMC - regulating medical doctors), the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC - regulating nurses and midwives), the General Dental Council (GDC - regulating dentists and dental workers), and the Health Professions Council (HPC - regulating a number of registered professionals allied to medicine, such as paramedics, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, medical scientists). Rowan Morton also defends vets (RCVS) and social workers (GSCC). Rowan Morton also provides legal advice on making written submissions (and the evidence to be collated) in order to knock out charges at the preliminary stages of investigation, where there is a cogent defence. Barrister Rowan Morton has a special interest in Vet law, including: Zoo law, animal welfare, RSPCA law, animal health prosecutions, zoological welfare and regulation. Lawyer Rowan Morton advises on issues concerning allegations of RCVS rules misconduct, veterinary practice standards, veterinary law, veterinary regulation, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and Nurses cases, vet medicines regulations, vet negligence, and animal cruelty law.