Farrar’s Building is a leading clinical negligence set, specialising in complex and high value claims across a wide range of medical disciplines.

Our members are instructed in cases involving dentists, GPs, health visitors, hospital trusts, midwives, nurses, opticians, pharmacists, physiotherapists, surgeons, and other healthcare professionals.

Recognised by the leading legal directories as ‘very bright and pragmatic’ with ‘good strategic vision’, our barristers are frequently instructed in multi-million-pound claims, acting for both claimants and defendants. Many of our cases raise issues of wider public importance and members are regularly involved in landmark healthcare sector litigation, including cases such as Swift v Carpenter, and disputes regarding vaccine safety.

Our work includes claims arising both within the UK and internationally, often involving cross-border or jurisdictional issues. Our dual specialisms in personal injury and product liability strengthen our overall offering, enabling us to provide comprehensive and coordinated advice in complex cases.

Members are regularly instructed in the most senior courts. As part of our complimentary professional discipline and regulatory practice, we also appear before professional regulators including the GMC, HCPC, NMC, and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, amongst others. Many also form part of our specialist inquests team, representing clients at investigations into deaths on behalf of bereaved families, NHS Trusts, insurers, government departments and other interested parties.

We are instructed across the full spectrum of clinical negligence disputes, including cases involving catastrophic birth injuries, adult and paediatric brain injury, spinal injury and cauda equina syndrome, failures in diagnosis such as missed or delayed cancer, issues of informed consent, and claims arising from surgical complications, cosmetic procedures, dental treatment, pressure sores, and conditions such as DVT and pulmonary embolism. Members also have experience in claims involving psychiatric injury, nervous shock and mental illness, as well as group litigation, and matters engaging the Court of Protection.

Our clients include NHS Resolution, medical defence organisations, private hospitals, insurers and individual clinicians and regulators. This breadth of experience across the healthcare sector ensured balanced, strategic advice in every case.