Date of Birth:
24 July 1945 (Son of the late Sir John Badenoch, formerly Dean of the Medical School of Oxford University)

Educated:
Rugby School, Magdalen College Oxford (MA)

Marital Status:
Married, 1 daughter, 2 sons

Bar Membership:
Called Lincoln’s Inn 1968
Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn (2000)
Member (ad eundem) Inner Temple
Admitted to Hong Kong Bar 1999 and 2001

Pupilage:
Harry Woolf (now Lord Woolf CJ) and John Alliott (later Alliott J)

Chambers:
1 Crown Office Row, Temple, London EC4 (since 1968)

Appointments:
Queen’s Counsel 1989
Recorder of the Crown Court since 1987
Deputy High Court Judge (Queen’s Bench) since 1994
President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal since 1999

Areas of Practice:
For over 20 years has specialised in clinical negligence and medically related cases of every kind. Also practises in Human Rights law, Personal Injury, Mental Health, and common law generally

Member:
Professional Negligence Bar Association; Association of Disciplinary and Regulatory Lawyers; Medico-Legal Society; Harveian Society; London Common Law Bar Association

Lecturer:
Royal Society of Medicine; Royal College of Physicians; Association for the Victims of Medical Accidents (AVMA); Harveian Society; Association of Personal Injury Lawyers; First Global Conference on Vaccines and Immunisation; British Association of Urological Surgeons; Society of Doctors in Law; Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children; Hong Kong Bar Association; Hong Kong Law Society; etc, etc.

Publications:
Contributor: Powers & Harris “Medical Negligence” 1990, (second edition 1994, third edition 2000) Butterworths

Major Cases Include:
Wilsher v Essex Area Health Authority 1988 AC 1074 (HL); medical negligence, causation principles
The Wendy Savage Inquiry (1986); NHS enquiry into obstetric practices
Dobbie v Medway Health Authority (1994) 5 Med LR 160 (CA); medical injury limitation, principles
Hossack v General Dental Council (1998) 40 BMLR 97 (PC); appeal to Privy Council, principles
General Medical Council v Rodney Ledward (1999); disciplinary proceedings (gynaecological surgery)
Penney and Others v East Kent Health Authority (2000) Lloyd’s Rep Med 41 (CA); application and limits of the ‘Bolam Test’
Heil v Rankin (2000) 2 WLR 1173 (CA); landmark case on general damages
Preiss v General Dental Council [2001] Lloyds Rep Med 491 (PC); human rights and professional discipline.