Scott Matthewson

Practice Areas

Scott specialises in all aspects of medical law. His practice encompasses clinical negligence, inquests and personal injury. He is also well known for his expertise in Court of Protection (particularly serious medical treatment cases) and Judicial Review. Scott concentrates on cases of complexity and/or high value, mainly in the High Court and usually against silks.

He is praised for his ability to communicate with experts and lay clients in confident, clear and friendly terms. Clients appreciate Scott’s calm and measured approach in court and his eye for a winning strategy.

Scott has built up a practice which successfully combines all types of clinical negligence cases and has developed particular expertise in high value birth injury claims. His personal injury practice focusses on high value brain injury claims and Scott has specialist experience of cases where brain damage and death have been caused by positional asphyxia as a result of restraint.

Please visit the Serjeants' Inn website for his profile, which sets out full details of his practice including relevant work of note.

Career

Scott was called in 1996. He was made a Bencher of Inner Temple in 2015. He was appointed as an Assistant Coroner in Kent in 2016 and a Recorder (Civil) on the Midland Circuit in 2022.

Scott is an ‘A grade’ advocacy teacher trainer (the highest grade awarded by the Inns). He has taught advocacy to lawyers in Argentina, Finland, Hungary, Poland, South Africa and at the International Criminal Court in the Hague.