Plastic Surgeon & Medico-legal Expert

Welcome to Mr Stone’s medico-legal practice. Mr Stone is an experienced NHS Consultant Plastic Surgeon and previously Clinical Director of Specialist Surgery at The Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust.

Mr Stone specialises in the NHS in the management of malignant melanoma and soft tissue sarcoma. He continues to offer private treatment to patients with these conditions, as well as to those presenting with benign skin and soft tissue lesions.

Mr Stone was appointed as a Consultant Plastic Surgeon in 2001. He has extensive experience of a wide range of cosmetic surgery, although over the past ten years he has concentrated upon aesthetic surgery of the breast (augmentation, reduction, mastopexy) and trunk (abdominoplasty and liposuction).

From August 2020, Mr Stone will no longer be able to see new cosmetic patients due to his NHS commitments and busy medico-legal practice.

The Royal College of Surgeons offer good advice on those thinking of having cosmetic surgery.

Mr Stone also has extensive experience as a plastic surgery medico-legal expert with a special interest in clinical negligence and fitness to practise. All instructions for reporting in both clinical negligence and personal injury cases in Exeter, London and Cardiff can be directed to Mr Stone via our online form.

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Genetics evidence revolution: How should courts determine permission applications?

Genetics evidence revolution: How should courts determine permission applications?

There has been a revolution in genetic testing over the past decade. Technological advances have greatly increased the scope and use of testing. Testing is now faster and cheaper. This has meant that it has become easier to analyse a whole, or large sections of a genome in detail.[1] This innovation brings with it ethical challenges, most notably in terms of consent and disclosure to other family members who may be affected by information identified.[2] These developments are beginning to ripple out to clinical negligence litigation. As they do, the courts will be asked to conduct a sensitive balancing exercise… [...]

Swift v Carpenter: short life expectancies and cliff edges

Swift v Carpenter: short life expectancies and cliff edges

The much-anticipated judgment in Swift v Carpenter [2020] EWCA Civ 1295 provided a neat and just approach to the valuation of capital costs in accommodation damages claims. Helpfully the Court of Appeal provided an easy to apply formula for accommodation claims where claimants have longer life expectancies thereby providing much needed litigation certainty – and also substantially reducing potential expert costs in future cases. Whilst the most usual type of claims were addressed, the Court could not provide answers to all of the more complex capital accommodation claims which may come before trial judges in the years ahead. Irwin LJ… [...]

Nervous shock and the Material Gap: Paul v. Wolverhampton in the High Court

Nervous shock and the Material Gap: Paul v. Wolverhampton in the High Court

On 4 November 2019 Master Cook struck out a nervous shock claim by the children of Mr Paul who collapsed and died from an untreated heart condition whilst out on a shopping trip with them in the centre of Wolverhampton. I wrote a blog piece commenting upon that decision. Today Chamberlain J. has allowed the Claimant’s appeal and reinstated the claim. It is not known whether the Defendant will stick or twist with an appeal to the Court of Appeal on what the judge described as a difficult point of law. The judgment provides an impressive and comprehensive review of… [...]

Dealing with the increased risks to BAME NHS staff treating Covid-19 patients

Dealing with the increased risks to BAME NHS staff treating Covid-19 patients

Summary: Empirical data suggest that people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (“BAME”) backgrounds are being disproportionately affected by Covid-19 and, on Wednesday 29th April 2020, NHS England gave sensible and important interim guidance to Hospital Trusts, pending an investigation by Public Health England. Some Trusts are seeking to protect BAME staff with measures including removal from the front line. This blog examines whether these well-intentioned measures are lawful. Background: While about 14% of the UK population in the 2011 Census were from a BAME background, they make up about 34% of critically ill Coronavirus patients, according to an April 2020 NHS… [...]

Commercial surrogacy is undoubtedly a head of loss

Commercial surrogacy is undoubtedly a head of loss

Summary: The Supreme Court in Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14 has upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision to award damages for Californian commercial surrogacy to an infertile British claimant. Such an award of damages is the first of its kind in the fields of personal injury and clinical negligence. Christopher Johnston QC and Claire Watson successfully acted for Ms X, the claimant/respondent, and were instructed by Alison Eddy and Anne Kavanagh of Irwin Mitchell. [...]