Julia Appleton

Background

About Julia Appleton

Partner in Mental Health and Care Homes Group. Healthcare Law,Court of Protection Healthcare Regulation and Care Home Issues Julia is an Partner in the Healthcare Team specialising in health and social care. She has acted for the majority of the teaching hospitals in London and many large state and private sector providers around the country. She has advised on a wide range of medico-legal matters, including consent and confidentiality and on urgent admissions and treatment issues, including force-feeding of anorexics, treatment of minor Jehovah Witnesses with blood transfusions and deaths in hospital, including suicides and attempted murders. She is regularly instructed to attend Inquests on behalf of healthcare bodies and care home providers and undertakes the advocacy at Inquests. She has a particular interest in the operation of the Mental Health Act and on all aspects relating to the treatment and detention of mentally ill people. She regularly undertakes complex Court of Protection work. Julia also has experience of regulatory matters involving CQC. She advises on local authority/PCT funding disputes, various issues in respect of care homes law and public law and judicial review. Julia is regularly involved in clinical negligence litigation and has experience of high value catastrophic cases and particularly spinal and brain injury as well as an established profile for class action work.