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JC (2020): Represented Claimant seeking damages for negligent delay in treatment leading to an amputation.Daley v Dr H and Dr H (2021): Acted for both Defendants in claim relating to delayed diagnosis of cancer.She alleges that she suffered a serious auto-immune response.

SM v A health trust (2022): Representing claimant in vaginal mesh claim.

Williams v Betsi Cadwaladr Local Health Board (2022): Acted for the Claimant, whose husband committed suicide after calling his local psychiatric unit earlier the same day seeking help.

He appeared as junior counsel before the Court of Appeal in ABC v St George’s Healthcare, which concerned the extent of a hospital’s duty to disclose to relatives the existence of a serious genetic disease in a family member. He has a particular interest in claims relating to consent.

He is currently instructed in a number of claims brought by children in relation to the late diagnosis of congenital hip dysplasia. Jim has a wide-ranging clinical negligence practice for both claimants and defendants. Jim is a member of the UK Human Rights Blog’s editorial team and is a Public Law and Personal Injury Expert for the LexisNexis PSL service. He went on to intern at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva before training at the commercial law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP. In 2016, he was one of four barristers to be selected for an exchange to the Paris Bar.Īs a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, Jim obtained an LLM from the University of Toronto in 2007. He previously spent a year at Paul Cézanne Université in Aix-en-Provence. Jim graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2005 with a First in Law with French Language and the class prize. He specialised in international and domestic human rights claims. Prior to transferring to the Bar, he spent three years working as a solicitor, first qualifying in Scotland and then in England & Wales. Led by Sarabjit Singh QC, he appeared and made submissions in the Supreme Court in Majera (Rwanda) v Secretary of State for the Home Department. Jim was previously Judicial Assistant to the current President and Deputy President of the Supreme Court, Lord Reed of Allermuir and Lord Hodge. He is a member of the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel (‘C’ Panel) and has particular experience of prison law and employment claims, acting on both sides. Jim Duffy has extensive experience across clinical negligence, inquests and inquiries, personal injury, human rights, tax and employment and discrimination.