John McQuater
John McQuater is Director of Switalskis Solicitors Limited where he is Joint Head of Personal Injury and a member of the Complex Injury Team.
He is an APIL Accredited Clinical Negligence Specialist, an APIL Accredited Brain Injury Specialist and an APIL Accredited Fatal Accident Specialist (also being an assessor for each of those schemes). He is a solicitor advocate, with rights of audience in the Higher Courts for all civil proceedings.
He is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, with accredited status as a Senior Fellow.
He provides professional training on a range of subjects including procedure, practice management, occupiers’ liability, contributory negligence, clinical negligence and evidence as well as regular updates on developments in the law. He has chaired sessions, and spoken, at many conferences including the APIL Annual Conference, the APIL Clinical Negligence Conference, the APIL Brain and Spinal Injury Conference and the APIL Business Conference.
Media work includes the BBC Daily Politics Show, BBC Look North, BBC Radio 4, local radio and Talk Radio.
He is the author of ‘Model Letters for Personal Injury Lawyers’ and the ‘APIL Guide to Personal Injury Claims Procedure’. He is also a contributor to the APIL Guide to Clinical Negligence, the APIL Personal Injury Law, Practice and Precedents and the 5th and 6th Editions of Medical Negligence by Michael Jones.
He is the Deputy Case Digest Editor, and on the editorial board, of the Journal of Personal Injury Law (published by Thomson Reuters).