Case studies

We are investigating a potential claim for a client with multiple sclerosis and considering whether the condition should have been diagnosed much earlier and at a time when treatment would still have been successful.

We have recently settled for £350,000 a long-running claim on behalf of a client whose developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) was missed by a health visitor during routine baby checks, with profound consequences that will affect our client for the rest of her life.

We have settled a claim relating to the surgical evacuation of our client’s retained products of conception (ERPC), performed after she suffered a secondary postpartum haemorrhage. She bled again heavily following surgery, requiring emergency repeat evacuation when a considerable amount of remaining tissue was removed.

We have recently settled a claim for substantial damages against East Kent University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust following a knee replacement that left our client with significant pain and reduced function.

We have agreed the settlement of a claim against Royal Berkshire Hospital (part of Royal Berkshire NHS Trust) for an alleged failure to investigate and diagnose our client’s finger fracture appropriately, causing her prolonged and unnecessary pain during the period in which the fracture was undiagnosed, and resulting in the need for more invasive surgery.

We recently settled a substantial claim for damages for a client who was not given appropriate options when consenting for surgery for removal of his appendix.

Our clinical negligence team in Cambridge acted on a claim against an NHS trust for a delay in diagnosing gallbladder cancer.

We settled a claim for a client who suffered severe pain to the back of her calf while taking part in an aerobics class.

Our client was admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of peritonitis, an inflammation of the stomach lining. Although she initially made a good recovery, she became increasingly ill and subsequently went into septic shock.

Our client, who was a keen golfer and fisherman, had what was intended to be a straightforward arthroscopy procedure to his right shoulder following the onset of pain.

We have recently settled a claim for a woman who suffered a lumbar slipped disc in her early 20s, which had been treated conservatively at the time with physiotherapy to achieve a full recovery, but some 20 years later she began to experience pain and stiffness to her back.