Michael Jones
Called: 1998 Areas of Law: Personal Injury
MICHAEL JONES LLB (Hons)
Called: 1998
Michael Jones specialises in personal injury, disease and professional negligence litigation with a particular interest in medical negligence. He acts for both Claimants and Defendants and is regularly instructed by insurance companies, NHS Trusts, the private prison service and the Treasury Solicitor.
The majority of his practice involves high value cases involving complex expert evidence and he is regularly instructed in cases valued at more than £1 million.
He also has considerable experience in Prisons Litigation including Middleton type inquests following deaths in custody. He appears in other types of inquests, including medical deaths and has an extensive knowledge or Coroner’s law from his time as Junior Counsel to the Shipman Inquiry.
He has a keen interest in general commercial work, contractual disputes, consumer credit, insurance and regulatory law.
Notable Cases
Junior Counsel to the Shipman Inquiry
Junior Counsel in Dimond v Lovell (HL)
Junior Counsel in Armstrong & Connor v First York (CA)
Currently instructed as Junior Counsel for AIG and Home Retail Group in the Linkwise Sofa Dermatitis litigation which is the subject of a Group Litigation Order in the High Court.
In 2007 he was appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown.