Mr Sutton has carried out medico-legal work for over 20 years, providing thorough and detailed reports on a range of cases covering knee conditions and surgery. His current medico-legal practice is exclusively limited to providing expert reports for claims specific to conditions or injuries of the knee.

Mr Sutton has prepared reports under instruction for both Claimant and Defendant cases. He has experience giving expert evidence for medico-legal cases including Coroner’s requests, GMC tribunals and Criminal cases. Mr Sutton can opine on condition and prognosis, breach of duty, liability and causation.

He is renowned for his expertise in all types of knee surgery, including sports injuries as well as joint and cartilage replacement, also specialising in surgery for anterior cruciate ligament injuries and cartilage repair.

Mr Sutton has experience in:

Clinical negligence cases relating to:

• Lower limb (speciality area – knee)
• Knee replacement (partial and total)
• Joint and cartilage replacement/repair
• Latrogenic cartilage damage
• Gait analysis
• Posterior cruciate ligament rupture
• Osteoarthritis of the knee
• Chondral injury and surgery
• Lower limb trauma
• Sports injuries to lower limb
• Anterior cruciate ligament injuries
• Knee arthroscopy (keyhole surgery)
• Patella stabilisation surgery
• Surgery for the arthritic knee
• Tibia fractures
• Femur fractures
• Post-operative complications (infections/stiffness)
• Patellar dislocations
• Meniscal repair surgery
• Open reduction internal fixation (ORIF)
• Soft tissue knee conditions
• ACL reconstruction
• Chronic knee pain
• Autologous chondrocyte implantation surgery
• Knee bursitis
• Knee dislocation
• Knee instability
• Lower limb exertional compartment syndrome
• Open reduction internal fixation
• Patello-femoral joint replacement surgery
• Tibial osteotomy
• Trochleoplasty
• Delayed referral to orthopaedics
• Inadequate consent before surgery
• Poor surgical technique:
  – Malpositioned implants
  – Wrong-site surgery
  – Retained foreign body

Mr Sutton’s report turnaround time is 4 – 6 weeks.