Rachel Galloway
Rachel practises in the fields of clinical negligence, personal injury and coronial law. She is based at Kings Chambers in Manchester.
Rachel undertakes all aspects of clinical negligence work. She has particular experience in obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery (including cardiothoracic surgery, orthopaedic surgery, bariatric surgery and numerous other forms of surgery), dental claims, deaths in care/nursing homes, claims involving the delayed diagnosis of cancer and claims against General Practitioners. Rachel has a particular interest in wrongful conception and wrongful birth claims.
Rachel also has experience of claims in the mental health context and negligence/breach of Article 2 in the context of suicide. Further, she is frequently instructed in prison inquests on behalf of the Ministry of Justice. Rachel has extensive knowledge of Coronial Law in the medical context. She has experience in representing family members, medical professionals, private healthcare providers and the ambulance services. Rachel has been instructed in a large number of lengthy Article 2 inquests and has extensive experience of cross-examining medical experts within this context.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2004
Membership
- Appointed to Attorney General's Provincial Panel November 2012
- Honourable Society of Gray's Inn
- Northern Circuit
- North-Eastern Circuit
- Personal Injuries Bar Association
- Professional Negligence Bar Association
Education
- Cambridge University (Christ's College)
- BVC: MA (Cantab) - Law (2:1)
- (ICSL London): Very Competent
1 Contributions by Rachel Galloway
PRACTICE NOTES
Wrongful Conception, Pregnancy and Birth: Liability, Causation and Recoverable Loss in Sterilisation and Contraception Negligence, Wrongful Birth and Disabled Child Claims
The law relating to wrongful conception, pregnancy and birth can be broken down into the following areas:
Unintended conception after a negligently performed sterilisation (male or female), resulting in the birth of a healthy child
Unintended conception after a negligently performed sterilisation (male or female), resulting in the birth of a disabled child
Unintended conception arising from negligent contraceptive or medical advice or treatment
Wrongful birth where the claimant mother would have ended the pregnancy had she been informed that the child was, or was likely to be, disabled
A claim by a disabled child (as opposed to a claim by the mother for her own injuries)
Claims are most often brought by the person who carried the pregnancy, rather than by any child born from it. In many cases of negligent female sterilisation, the issue is tubal occlusion where a Filshie clip has not been correctly applied to the fallopian tube. This may be because it has detached from the tube, or because it was affixed to the wrong structure. In matters concerning male sterilisation:
The vasectomy itself will typically have been carried out properly, although there may be instances where the wrong structure...
PI & Clinical Negligence
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