This session will provide a comprehensive update on dental negligence claims, covering both foundational principles and the latest developments for 2025.
Topics will include:
- Effective risk assessment
- Funding arrangements
- Taking and managing client instructions
- Investigating claims under the Pre-Action Protocol
- Key legal principles in dental negligence
- Working with and challenging expert evidence
- Drafting the letter of claim (including issues with locums)
- Approaches to liability disputes
- Assessing quantum in dental negligence claims
- Litigating dental negligence cases
- Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
- Costs and allocation after the October 2023 changes and April 2024 amendments
- Practical tactics for success
APIL Past President, Director of Switalskis Solicitors Ltd
John McQuater qualified as a solicitor in 1983 and is a Director of Personal Injury, and member of the Complex Injury Team, at Switalskis Solicitors.
He is a member of the Law Society Clinical Negligence Accreditation Scheme and a member of the Law Society Personal Injury Accreditation Scheme (as well as being an assessor for that scheme). He had, whilst the scheme was operation, Catastrophic Injury Accreditation from the Law Society... view full biography