Mary is a highly-respected and sought-after specialist in professional discipline, clinical negligence and employment law.
She is ranked for clinical negligence and professional discipline by Chambers & Partners and for professional discipline by the Legal 500. She also won Professional Discipline Junior of the Year in the Chambers & Partners Bar Awards 2008. Mary was recently named Barrister of the Year at the Manchester Legal Awards 2018.
She took silk in 2009 having been called to the bar in 1981. She was called to the bar in Northern Ireland in 2003 and is recognised as a Senior Counsel there.
Mary is widely recognised as one of the leading silks in professional discipline. She undertook first case at the GMC in 1986 and has consistently been representing doctors before the GMC since then in every type of hearing and before every type of Panel or Committee.
Mary is also active in cases involving the medical treatment of sporting injuries in an employment or disciplinary context, especially those involving complex statutory or regulatory issues or human rights issues.
Mary has vast experience of public law (particularly judicial review) work relating to the NHS and healthcare profession regulators, including judicial reviews of a number of decisions by coroners, and of the GMC in the Baby P paediatrician case (Al Zayat).
Mary has extensive experience of every type of clinical negligence claim, predominantly (but not exclusively) representing professional healthcare defendants. This includes both NHS Trusts and individual medical practitioners.
She also has a busy employment law practice centred on advisory and advocacy within the medical and related professions, and also within the education sector. This includes representing NHS Trusts, doctors, dentists and others in tribunal or in the High Court in breach of contract, discrimination and many other types of case.
Mary is widely recognised as one of the leading silks in professional discipline. She undertook her first case at the GMC in 1986 and has consistently been representing doctors before the GMC since then in every type of hearing and before every type of Panel or Committee.
Her excellence is reflected in her rankings as a leading silk in current editions of both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 directories.
Her strength is in representing healthcare professionals before regulatory bodies such as the GMC, GDC, UKCC and now NMC, HPC, Royal Pharmaceutical Society Statutory Committee, NHS Tribunal and FHSA Medical and Dental Service Committee Appeals.
Mary has vast experience of public law (particularly judicial review) work relating to the NHS and healthcare profession regulators, dating as far back as 1987 (successfully reviewing the Health Secretary's decision (ex parte Lai).
More recently, Mary has been involved in judicial reviews of a number of decisions by coroners, particularly in Northern Ireland, and of the GMC in the Baby P paediatrician case (Al-Zayyat).
The court stated obiter that in considering issues of dishonesty in fitness to practise cases, the General Medical Council had to take care in applying the Ghosh test of dishonesty,...
In this conjoined appeal (with Botham v. Ministry of Defence), the Supreme Court considered whether an employee could claim damages at common law for breach of a contractual disciplinary procedure...
There was no evidential support for the General Medical Council's fitness to practise panel's decision that a paediatrician had been deliberately and voluntarily absent from her misconduct hearing. The psychiatric...
The Preliminary Proceedings Committee of the General Medical Council, having identified the correct test to apply in order to decide whether a complaint should be referred to the Professional Conduct...
In the circumstances of the case it was correct under the General Medical Council Preliminary Proceedings Committee and Professional Conduct Committee (Procedure) Rules Order of Council 1988 r.11(2) for a...
In deciding whether to treat complaints against medical practitioners as either matters of personal conduct or matters of professional conduct or competence for the purposes of disciplinary proceedings, the correct...
Mary is a highly-respected and sought-after specialist in professional discipline, clinical negligence and employment law.
She is ranked for clinical negligence and professional discipline by Chambers & Partners and for professional discipline by the Legal 500. She also won Professional Discipline Junior of the Year in the Chambers & Partners Bar Awards 2008. Mary was recently named Barrister of the Year at the Manchester Legal Awards 2018.
She took silk in 2009 having been called to the bar in 1981. She was called to the bar in Northern Ireland in 2003 and is recognised as a Senior Counsel there.
Mary is widely recognised as one of the leading silks in professional discipline. She undertook first case at the GMC in 1986 and has consistently been representing doctors before the GMC since then in every type of hearing and before every type of Panel or Committee.
Mary is also active in cases involving the medical treatment of sporting injuries in an employment or disciplinary context, especially those involving complex statutory or regulatory issues or human rights issues.
Mary has vast experience of public law (particularly judicial review) work relating to the NHS and healthcare profession regulators, including judicial reviews of a number of decisions by coroners, and of the GMC in the Baby P paediatrician case (Al Zayat).
Mary has extensive experience of every type of clinical negligence claim, predominantly (but not exclusively) representing professional healthcare defendants. This includes both NHS Trusts and individual medical practitioners.
She also has a busy employment law practice centred on advisory and advocacy within the medical and related professions, and also within the education sector. This includes representing NHS Trusts, doctors, dentists and others in tribunal or in the High Court in breach of contract, discrimination and many other types of case.
Mary is widely recognised as one of the leading silks in professional discipline. She undertook her first case at the GMC in 1986 and has consistently been representing doctors before the GMC since then in every type of hearing and before every type of Panel or Committee.
Her excellence is reflected in her rankings as a leading silk in current editions of both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 directories.
Her strength is in representing healthcare professionals before regulatory bodies such as the GMC, GDC, UKCC and now NMC, HPC, Royal Pharmaceutical Society Statutory Committee, NHS Tribunal and FHSA Medical and Dental Service Committee Appeals.
Mary has vast experience of public law (particularly judicial review) work relating to the NHS and healthcare profession regulators, dating as far back as 1987 (successfully reviewing the Health Secretary's decision (ex parte Lai).
More recently, Mary has been involved in judicial reviews of a number of decisions by coroners, particularly in Northern Ireland, and of the GMC in the Baby P paediatrician case (Al-Zayyat).
The court stated obiter that in considering issues of dishonesty in fitness to practise cases, the General Medical Council had to take care in applying the Ghosh test of dishonesty,...
In this conjoined appeal (with Botham v. Ministry of Defence), the Supreme Court considered whether an employee could claim damages at common law for breach of a contractual disciplinary procedure...
There was no evidential support for the General Medical Council's fitness to practise panel's decision that a paediatrician had been deliberately and voluntarily absent from her misconduct hearing. The psychiatric...
The Preliminary Proceedings Committee of the General Medical Council, having identified the correct test to apply in order to decide whether a complaint should be referred to the Professional Conduct...
In the circumstances of the case it was correct under the General Medical Council Preliminary Proceedings Committee and Professional Conduct Committee (Procedure) Rules Order of Council 1988 r.11(2) for a...
In deciding whether to treat complaints against medical practitioners as either matters of personal conduct or matters of professional conduct or competence for the purposes of disciplinary proceedings, the correct...