Jamie has experience acting as sole counsel in various inquests, as well as acting as junior Counsel to the Inquest/Inquiry in major investigations. 

Since mid 2022 Jamie has been instructed as counsel to the the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry, assisting the Inquiry Chair Baroness Heather Hallett. He has been heavily involved in all stages of the investigation of Module 3 “impact on healthcare systems across the United Kingdom”. This has included providing the chair with advice, drafting requests for evidence, report writing and the questioning of nine witnesses on a range of issues the public hearings.  

Between 2019 and 2021 Jamie worked as Junior Counsel to the ‘Sandilands Inquests’ – the inquests arising out of the seven deaths caused by the Croydon tram disaster in November 2016. In this capacity, Jamie was closely involved with the preparation for ten-week inquests between May and July 2021, assisting the Senior Coroner for South London as part of her team.

Notable Cases

• Junior Counsel to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry – Module 3: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems across the United Kingdom. 
• Junior Counsel to the “Sandilands” Inquests.
• Advising the family of MH ahead of the Inquest following her death which occurred while she was a patient of an NHS Trust’s “hospital at home team”, which failed to respond to her calls for assistance on the evening of her death. 
• Acting on behalf of the family of SM, who died following a period of care in a rehab centre, in an upcoming inquest.
• Inquest into the death of SC - acted on behalf of a family in an inquest into a student death at university. The coroner was highly critical of the care provided to the student by the university’s wellbeing centre.
• Inquest into the death of JN - acted on behalf of a family in an inquest into the death of a young man which occurred shortly after an interaction with the police.