Jane Tracy Forster

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Qualified: 
Mediator
Specialist Areas: 
Employment and workplace
Personal injury and clinical negligence
Education: 
LLB (Hons) Liverpool

General Information: 
Jane has more than 26 years' experience, covering all aspects of civil litigation with a particular emphasis in the last 16 years on employment, clinical negligence and catastrophic personal injury work. She also has considerable experience and interest in public law and statutory regulation.

Professional Experience

 
  • Considerable experience in the wider medical law field, including all aspects of clinical risk management and medical disciplinary tribunals, at the GMC and at domestic tribunals.
     

  • Wide experience of tribunal and appellate work in all aspects of employment litigation, and advisory work, for a number of nationally known employers and occasionally for employees.
     

  • Wide experience of prosecutions arising from statutory regulations governing health and safety, working practices and food safety.

    • Reported Cases
    In the field of medical law:
    Ackers v Wigan HA [1991] 2 Med LR 232 (anaesthetic awareness); Bovenzi v Kettering HA [1991] 2 Med LR (bowel damage in gynaecological surgery); Miles v West Kent HA [1997] 8 Med LR 191 (bile duct damage in keyhole surgery); Smith v Leicestershire HA [1998] Lloyds Rep Med 77 (limitation); Roberts v South Beds HA [QBD:1998] (urological complications following gynaecological surgery); Thurman v Bath & Wiltshire HA [1997] 1 CL 1953 p734 (cervical cancer following negligent reporting of cervical smear – provisional damages); Carmon v Page [2000] Clinical Risk v6 no1 Jan2000 (settlement of £143,000 for delayed diagnosis of terminal breast cancer); Subramanian v GMC [2002] UKPC 64 (procedure at GMC hearings, duty of disclosure, penalty).

    In the field of employment legislation:
    Iceland Frozen Foods Ltd v Jones [1982] IRLR 439 (unfair dismissal); Cantor Fitzgerald International v Callaghan and others (1999) Times p41 25.1.99 (Court of Appeal) (failure by employer to honour contractual agreement a breach of contract).

    Other Professional Activities

  • Member of Professional Negligence Bar Association

  • Member of Employment Bar Association

  • Member of Personal Injury Bar Association

  • Occasional lecturer to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and to the Guy’s Hospital School of Psychiatry.