Clare Brown

Call: 1993

Expertise

Clinical Negligence
Human Rights
Personal Injury
Professional Negligence

Appointments

Treasury B Panel, Special Advocate

Practice Profile

Clare is a specialist in human rights, having formerly worked for the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and for the Ombudsman of Human Rights, Bosnia. With a broad domestic practice she is developing a reputation in personal injury work, principally for defendant insurers, with a particular interest in sporting accidents involving sailing, skiing and mountain biking. In addition, she has acted in cases of clinical negligence and was a junior to Ben Browne QC in a number of substantial cerebral palsy cases.   She is a member of the Treasury B panel and has acted for the Government in a wide variety of cases including judicial reviews of immigration decisions. She was junior counsel (instructed by the Government) in the Kerr Haslam Inquiry which investigated the conduct of two NHS consultants. She was recently appointed as a Special Advocate and is security cleared. She has appeared before the Special Immigration Appeal Commission, and has experience as a Special Advocate acting in control order cases and deportations on the grounds of national security.

She has a thorough knowledge of the European Convention of Human Rights and recently acted as a junior to Dermod O’Brien QC in a case instructed by the Motor Insurer’s Bureau, raising Human Rights points in the House of Lords.

She is currently junior counsel (appointed by the Treasury Solicitor) to a public inquiry into the murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson in Northern Ireland in 1999.

Additional Information

Previous Positions:

• Lawyer at European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg
• International Lawyer to the Ombudsman of Human Rights, Bosnia

Publications:

• Contributor to Sweet & Maxwell’s loose leaf Human Rights Practice

Languages:

• French