Most of Mr Britten’s medico-legal practice is currently in the field of Personal Injury, given his other wide-ranging time commitments – his surgical practice at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, and national leadership roles as President of the British Limb Reconstruction Society, Chair of the British Orthopaedic Association Medico-legal Committee, and member of the BOA Orthopaedic Committee.

Mr Britten will accept a modest number of instructions for cases of clinical negligence, in particular Ilizarov circular frame cases; and also tibial and femoral fractures, especially but not only if the circumstances have led to an amputation. 

The case of Riley v Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust [2022] EWHC 2417 (KB), in which Mr Britten gave oral evidence, was such a case – ipsilateral femoral and tibial fractures, delay to diagnosis of compartment syndrome, and subsequent below knee amputation.