Published on 8 July 2020, the panel: Harry Steinberg QC, Gemma Scott, Aliyah Akram and Craig Murray, will consider the findings of the Review into:

  • hormone pregnancy tests, such as Primidos,
  • sodium valproate, an anti-epileptic drug,
  • pelvic mesh implants

The panel will discuss the recommendations made by the Review, which include an independent “Redress Agency” and schemes to meet the cost of providing care and support to those who have been harmed by each intervention.

Featured barristers: Harry Steinberg KC, Gemma Scott & Aliyah Akram

Harry Steinberg KC

Harry Steinberg is a “widely acclaimed practitioner”, “brilliantly knowledgeable”, with a “standout practice”. His practice spans serious injury, sports law and environmental damage. His work often involves an international dimension and he specialises in large-scale group actions for claimants and defendants. He is renowned for innovative thinking, challenging legal orthodoxy, and winning difficult cases. Accordingly, he is regularly instructed in test litigation. The directories recognise him as a leading silk in personal injury, industrial disease, product liability, group litigation and international litigation.

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Gemma Scott

Gemma specialises in serious personal injury cases, industrial disease claims, and in large group actions.

She regularly appears against silks and senior juniors in High Court cases. She is also frequently instructed as junior counsel in multi-million pound claims, often working alongside silks from other chambers.

She is ranked in the fields of Personal Injury and Industrial Disease in the Legal 500 and in Chambers & Partners.

Gemma is a contributor to Sweet and Maxwell’s Asbestos: Law and Litigation.

Gemma is shortlisted for 'Personal Injury Junior of the Year' at the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2026.

 

 

 

 

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Aliyah Akram

Aliyah Akram is acknowledged as a leading junior in personal injury and industrial disease litigation. She is renowned for her expertise and experience in group litigation in all of the core areas in which she practices. Many of her cases have an international aspect and give rise to both jurisdictional issues and conflicts of laws.

Aliyah is a robust and persuasive trial advocate. She prides herself on working closely as a team with instructing solicitors, not just in group litigation, but in every case in which she is involved. Her focus is always on maximising the client’s prospects of success. She is able to cut through the background noise and gets straight to the issues.

She is a contributing author of Asbestos: Law & Litigation (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd edition, 2022).

She is ranked by the legal directories as a leading junior in Personal Injury, Industrial Disease and Travel: International Personal Injury.

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Craig Murray KC (Scot.)

Silk: 2024 (Scottish Bar)

Call: 2017 - Bar of England and Wales

2008 - Scottish Bar

Craig is a Scottish silk and a barrister in England. He has considerable experience in a full range of personal injury work.

Craig has appeared in the Supreme Court on a novel insurance point (Campbell v. Peter Gordon Joiners Ltd [2016] UKSC 38), he conducted a civil jury trial in the Court of Session without a leader (Bridges v. Alpha Insurance 2016 SLT 859) and has conducted numerous multi-week trials as sole counsel.

Craig is regularly instructed in high-value RTA claims involving fatalities or catastrophic and brain injury.

Craig has substantial experience in dealing with cross-border issues.

Craig has recently returned to civil practice after a 3-year appointment as Crown Counsel in Scotland. In that capacity, he prosecuted serious crime including murder, drugs trafficking and serious sexual offending.

Craig is available to accept instructions throughout the jurisdiction. He maintains a practice at Compass Chambers in Edinburgh.

In his spare time, Craig is a marathon swimmer.

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