Throughout his 34-year legal career, Stephen Ballantine has been a “go-to” lawyer on contentious and non-contentious insurance and commercial litigation matters. Stephen trained in the City of London at Taylor Joynson Garret (now Taylor Wessing) and subsequently joined Clyde & Co, London as an Assistant Solicitor in its Charter-party Group. Stephen joined the Dubai office of Clyde & Co in 1998 and later was appointed Legal Director with DLA Piper in its Dubai office as Head of Local Litigation.
Stephen is the Head of Galadari’s Medical Malpractice Group and has served with the firm for 21 years. Stephen leads a team of Syrian, Egyptian and Emirati lawyers highly- specialised in defending and advising Hospitals, Clinics, physicians, nurses – and their medical malpractice Underwriters and Reinsurers – in medical malpractice matters in Criminal, Civil and Regulatory proceedings. He is particularly effective and experienced in working with appellants of disputed Medical Liability Committee (‘MLC’) decisions and preparing appeal submissions to the Supreme Committee of Medical Liability (‘SCML’) where he has achieved remarkable success in overturning adverse MLC decisions.
Leveraging his 26 years of professional legal experience in UAE Court proceedings Stephen has acted as an expert witness in UAE law, practice and court procedure in legal proceedings in England, Canada and the United States. Stephen also trains lawyers in UAE Medical Malpractice Law, Practice and Procedure under the Continuing Professional Development regulations of the Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department. Stephen is also a regular speaker on medico-legal topics at Arab Health conferences and contributor/commentator on medico-legal topics of the day in various publications and platforms.
Stephen broadcasts write and lectures widely on UAE legal topics including medical malpractice law, an area in which he is regarded by many as the leading practitioner in the jurisdiction and which is seeing a period of extended growth in UAE. Stephen is a regular speaker on Medico-Legal topics at Arab Health conferences on sugary and quality management.
Academic Profile
- LLB (Hons) – University College, Cardiff (University of Wales)
- Law Society Solicitor’s Final Examination- College of Law (Chester)
Languages
- English
Practice Focus
- Medical Malpractice
- Insurance
- Dispute resolution
- Commercial
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