Court of Protection
“Very impressive, he works hard at all hours, gives very careful consideration to documents and is a wonderful tactician. He is approachable, has a good eye for detail and thinks outside the box.”
Chambers & Partners
Oliver co-authored a chapter on Human Organ and Tissue donation in the Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law, edited by Christopher Johnston KC and Sophia Roper KC (4th Ed., Bloomsbury 2022)
experience & expertise
Oliver is a co-author on the fourth edition of Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law edited by Christopher Johnston KC and Sophia Roper KC. He was also a contributor to the second and third edition.
Oliver is instructed by claimants and defendants in all aspects of medical work. He has a long-standing interest in cases involving difficult questions of consent and capacity. As a result, Oliver contributed to a number of chapters in MTDL, including those on consent, treatment of suicidal patients, and human organ and tissue donation. He has experience of cases involving the UK fertility regulator the HFEA.
publications
- Oliver co-authored chapter nineteen: Human Organ and Tissue Donation in the fourth edition of the book Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law, edited by Christopher Johnston KC and Sophia Roper KC and written by 27 members of Serjeants’ Inn. He was previously a co-author of second (2009) and third (2016) editions of the same work, in which he wrote on ‘The Mental Capacity Act in Action’.