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About Medicolegal Chambers

The standard of care, upheld.

Medicolegal Chambers is the independent expert-witness practice of Professor Irfan Jeeva, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Oculoplastic Surgeon. Alongside its work for the courts, the chambers publishes a medico-legal library for clinicians.

Who is behind it

An expert witness who reads the notes for the court.

Professor Irfan Jeeva, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Oculoplastic Surgeon and CPR 35 medico-legal expert witness

Professor Irfan Jeeva

Consultant Ophthalmologist & Oculoplastic Surgeon

  • CPR 35 medico-legal expert witness in medical negligence and personal injury
  • Head of Ophthalmology, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust
  • Oculoplastic fellowship, Royal College of Ophthalmologists
  • Cosmetic plastic surgery fellowship, Royal College of Surgeons
  • Level 2 diploma, American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine
  • Twenty years in periocular, oculoplastic and aesthetic surgery

When a negligence claim is brought against a clinician, an independent expert witness reads the notes and tells the court whether the standard of care was met. Professor Jeeva is one of those experts.

The library on this site is written from that vantage point. Each explainer sets out what the court decided, how the test is applied today, and what it means for the record a clinician keeps.

Aesthetic and ophthalmic practice are held to a legal standard forged in surgery and general medicine: Bolam, Bolitho, Montgomery and McCulloch. The periocular region, where complications are most feared, is the anatomy Professor Jeeva reconstructs as a surgeon and reports on for the courts.

The duty of an expert is owed to the court, whoever instructs. The same independence governs what we publish.

What we stand for

Norma curae servata. Three commitments.

I

Independence

Our opinion is the same whoever asks for it. Expert evidence is given to the court, not to a side.

II

Rigour

Every view is reasoned from the record and the evidence. We cite our sources: case law, regulator guidance and published claims data.

III

Candour

We say where care met the standard, and where it did not. A view that cannot survive cross-examination is not worth holding.

The boundaries

What this library is not.

Knowing where our role ends is part of doing it well.

Not legal advice

The library is educational. When a matter needs a solicitor, it needs a solicitor, and we say so plainly.

Not an insurer

Nothing here replaces your indemnity or the advice of your defence organisation.

Not a view on your case

If you have an active complaint, claim or investigation, speak to your indemnifier first.

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