Mike Hill

Specialisms:

Mike has a busy clinical negligence, personal injury, chancery and commercial litigation practice.

Qualified as a dental surgeon and practising dentistry for 15 years before coming to the bar in 2004, he has a unique understanding of clinical negligence claims acting for both Claimants and Defendants. Whilst operating from Chambers in Newcastle and Teesside, Mike accepts instructions from across the UK. He is prepared to review certain cases on a pre-CFA basis.

His clinical negligence and personal injury practice has recently included:

• SD v Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2011) LTLPI 02/08/11;
• Advising a professional defence society/indemnifier upon a high value orthopaedic and anaesthetic negligence claim;
• Advice in cases of severe drug reaction;
• Advice in catastrophic injury overlying schizophrenia and alcohol dependency;
• Advising in successful claim against dentists involving bone loss as a result of poor oral health caused by alleged failure to advise against smoking and absence of regular periodontal examinations;
• Advising upon claims against clinicians now out of the jurisdiction;
• Coroners Inquests;
• Complex credit hire;
• Costs disputes;

His chancery and commercial litigation practice includes the following:

• Landlord and Tenant;
• Housing;
• Possession hearings;
• Contractual disputes;
• Insolvency and liquidation;
• Directors’ disqualification;
• Licensing;
• Lands Registry and Lands Tribunal cases;

Cases:

• MM v David Paul Eley (2011) LTLPI 29/2/2012
• SD v Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2011) LTLPI 02/08/11
• Ikikardesler v Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council [2011] UKUT 210 (LC), 2011 WL 2039954 (successfully representing Council in dispute surrounding level of compensation following CPO)
• GFSC v Bromley (Director’s disqualification application)
• Crescent Farming v Bellway (Adverse possession)

Appointments:

• Member, Bar Council Pupillage Portal Review Group
• Visiting Lecturer & Tutor to MSc in Conscious Sedation in Dentistry at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Visiting Lecturer to the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine and Dentistry at the Northern Deanery 
• Trinity Chambers' Deputy Pupillage Officer
• Trinity Chambers' Deputy Equality & Diversity Officer

Memberships:

• Professional Negligence Bar Association
• North of England Medico-legal Society
• Gray's Inn
• North Eastern Circuit 

Lectures & Seminars:

• Mike delivers a range of lectures upon clinical negligence to lawyers and upon legal matters to doctors and dentists
• He also presents lectures and seminars upon personal injury, expert evidence, credit hire, freedom of information and low velocity impact cases  

Education & Awards :

• Bachelor of Dental Surgery, University of Newcastle 1989
• Postgraduate Diploma in Conscious Sedation 1997
• CPE Semple Piggot Rochez 2002
• BVC Northumbria 2004

Additional Information:

Mike spent 15 years as a general dental practitioner and 7 years as a tutor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Dental School before coming to the Bar in 2004. Mike has his own website www.mikehillbarrister.com .