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Birth Injury Expert Hub is the specialist directory for lawyers working on maternity and neonatal claims. Barristers with proven birth injury expertise can join the directory free of charge and be found by claimant and defendant solicitors looking for counsel.

Birth injury expert hub barrister directory

About the hub.

The Hub doesn’t act as a replacement to your own clerk or chambers. Instructing solicitors will continue to instruct you in the usual way. Solicitors come to the hub specifically to build birth injury case teams, so your profile reaches the right people.

One of the founders of the Birth Injury Expert Hub is Nikki Khan, a clinical negligence solicitor, former midwife and midwifery expert witness. She believes that finding the right counsel for these cases should not depend on simply going to the same one or two chambers you have always used. Instead, she sees real benefit in bringing together a comprehensive collection of specialist barristers with proven expertise in this field to widen the choice and help streamline the options available to a solicitor. 

Every barrister is reviewed before listing, so your place in the directory shows proven expertise. Solicitors find counsel in the same place as the obstetric, neonatal, quantum and care experts they are instructing.

To join you will need:

  • Practising certificate

    Hold a current practising certificate in England and Wales

  • Chambers membership

    Be a member of a chambers in England and Wales

  • Demonstrate experience

    Have experience of birth injury or maternity and neonatal claims, for example as counsel in cerebral palsy, hypoxic brain injury, brachial plexus or stillbirth

  • Provide evidence

    Provide details of relevant cases (anonymised where needed) or a reference from an instructing solicitor or senior clerk at your chambers

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to be listed?

Nothing. Listing is free for barristers, and all listings are vetted.

Does it replace my clerk?

No. Solicitors continue to instruct you in the usual way. The Hub simply puts your profile in front of the solicitors and coroners building birth injury teams, and your profile can link to your chambers page.

How do I join?

Fill out the application form on our Barrister portal below.

What do I get as a barrister?

Personal access to the guidelines library on request: email us for the guideline you need and we can send you the PDF if we hold it.

The application process

Barristers can apply to be included in the directory by completing the simple online
form. Clerks are welcome to apply on behalf of members of chambers and can
get several barristers from one set signed up at once.

This is strictly a directory, not a referral service.

Apply today