Case studies

We have settled a claim against Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for negligence by an orthopaedic surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital in London. The claim concerned our client’s anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The ACL is important for stability in the knee.

We have settled a claim for a client whose mother died following a fall in a Care UK home in Surrey. In the five days leading up to the incident, she suffered four falls while she was unattended in the home.

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 have recently settled a claim for a GP client who suffered loss of vision and visual disturbance because of negligent anaesthetic management during spinal surgery.

We have settled a case on behalf of our client, a man in his 30s, who was left with long-term neurological damage from developing cauda equina syndrome.

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 settled a claim against Princess Royal University Hospital in Kent for a radiologist’s failure to investigate a lesion identified on our client’s chest X-ray, which resulted in him losing the likely prospect of curative surgery. He was faced with a terminal illness by the time of his actual diagnosis.

We obtained approval for a settlement on liability in a claim brought on behalf of a child against Watford General Hospital in relation to an alleged negligent delay in diagnosis of meningococcal septicaemia. As a result of this delay, the child’s leg had to be amputated.

Our clinical negligence team in London has recently obtained a settlement for a client who was a patient of the breast surgeon Ian Patterson.