Nicholas Peacock

Year of call: 1992

Specialist areas: clinical negligence, regulatory & disciplinary, inquests, professional negligence

Education: Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law

Appointments: Legal Adviser to the Statutory Committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (from 2006)

• GDC v Kotzenberg & others (unreported, 2008); PCC; advising and representing one of four dentists at the longest running case at the General Dental Council; the dentists face allegations of serious professional misconduct in respect of excessive dental radiographs. 

Publications and lectures

• Part-Chapters: Medicolegal Considerations: the British and US Perspective in Perineal and Anal Sphincter Trauma (Springer, 2007; ed Sultan, Thakar & Fenner) and Law and Ethics in Intensive Care (OUP, 2010).

"... 'extraordinary patience,'...A man whose 'preparation is faultless,' he has a strong track record in judicial review, inquest and tribunal work concerning dentists, doctors and teaching hospital trusts." Chambers UK 2012

"Nicholas Peacock is notably strong in defending healthcare professionals...and is praised for his 'complete mastery of the area'." Chambers UK 2011

"He is noted for being 'responsive and a good team player, who is very technically able'." Chambers UK 2011

"Nicholas Peacock was dubbed 'a very switched-on performer' by sources." Chambers UK 2010

"With broad experience in the dental as well as medical fields, Nicholas Peacock is 'obliging, puts clients at their ease, and always goes the extra mile'." Chambers UK 2009

Chambers UK 2008 (clinical negligence) states that Nick “offers a 'crisp, clear style of advocacy’.”

Chambers UK 2008 (professional discipline) states that: “Clients are in consensus that 'he is enthusiastic, has excellent preparation skills and is one of the more modern barristers’.”