Case studies

We are representing a young boy who has athetoid cerebral palsy and hearing loss, with learning difficulties, enamel dysplasia and impaired vertical eye movements, due to his form of brain damage called kernicterus.

We have settled a claim after a hospital failed to make a timely diagnosis of osteosarcoma (a primary bone cancer) and instead interpreted two sets of X-rays as only showing a minor fracture. Our client was put in a knee brace and referred for physiotherapy, which he attended and tried his best to complete, but experienced significant pain and anxiety.

We have represented a client in a claim against her partner’s GP, which despite being defended on a number of grounds, was settled successfully.

We have settled a claim against a plastic surgeon who failed to obtain adequate consent from our client regarding the placement of her breast implants. Breast augmentation surgery involves the creation of a pocket that allows for the breast implant to be placed above or below the chest muscle. The pocket can be made in one of two places: either under the breast itself, known as sub-glandular or sub-mammary; or under both the breast and chest muscle, known as sub-muscular or sub-pectoral placement.

We are representing a young woman in her early 20s with a medical negligence claim arising out of a delayed diagnosis of thyroid cancer. The central allegations relate to a 15 month delay in diagnosis and the implications this has had for her.

Our clinical negligence specialists have represented a patient who lost the sight in his right eye after a hospital failed to organise proper follow-up care for his retinal detachment surgery. The case was reported, before its successful conclusion, by the Daily Telegraph in April 2019, as part of a feature about systemic problems within the NHS.

We have represented a young man who suffered multiple injuries when he fell some 25 feet from a bridge. Our client was extremely lucky to survive the fall but sustained head, chest and pelvic injuries. He was taken to hospital where a subcutaneous pelvic fixator ‘INFIX’ device was attached to his pelvis. Unfortunately, this trapped his femoral nerve.

We have represented a young girl in her clinical negligence claim, which arose from a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of her dislocated hips at birth. We investigated her early paediatric care and evidenced the failure to make a timely diagnosis of hip dysplasia.

We have represented a client with a claim arising from poor midwifery care following delivery of her child. It was our client’s case that a large piece of retained placenta was negligently missed during her daughter’s birth which took place by caesarean section.

We concluded a claim for a woman who was informed she had pancreatic cancer and underwent major surgery to remove her pancreas, only to be told her tumour was benign.

This was a complicated claim on liability against both the deceased’s GP and the hepatology team at his local hospital. The claimants’ case was that the defendants had twice failed to arrange a hepatitis C blood test, leading to a failure to treat for hepatitis C and prevent the development of liver cancer.

Our claimant’s case was that a large piece of retained placenta was negligently missed during her daughter’s birth by caesarean section. The failure to detect and remove it resulted in continuing bleeding and pain over the next few days, an emergency return to theatre, a delayed discharge home from hospital, a very distressing readmission to hospital, and significant psychological symptoms.