Case studies

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.

We secured a substantial settlement for a man who has been left with long-term bladder, bowel and sexual dysfunction after his local A&E department failed to recognise and respond to signs of cauda equina syndrome.

We are advising a woman who experienced delays in the diagnosis and treatment of her appendicitis in April 2016.

We have recently settled yet another claim against Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust for a client who received negligent treatment from consultant gynaecologist, Miss Jayne Cockburn.

We have advised on a claim against Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust for a mother of two teenage daughters who, during her diagnosis for breast cancer, was wrongly told that she did not have the inherited form of the disease.

Our clinical negligence team in Cambridge has settled a claim for delayed diagnosis and treatment of Cauda Equina Syndrome, which left our client with life altering injuries.

We recently obtained a settlement for a 90 year old client who sustained a fall at the Royal Blackburn Hospital, fracturing her right hip and requiring a hemi-arthroplasty.

We have recently settled a claim for a client who suffered serious and permanent loss of sensation and function as a result of severe damage caused to his ulnar nerve during a routine elbow arthroscopy.

We have recently settled a claim against two GPs at Thatcham Medical Practice in Berkshire for a client who suffered a delay in diagnosis of her bowel cancer. The delay led to months of unnecessary pain and suffering.

We have recently settled a claim on behalf of a client arising from the consequences of her local hospital’s failure to identify a left ankle fracture. The claim was very complex as our client also had an underlying connective tissue disease.

Our clinical negligence team has recently settled a claim for a capitalised sum of £17 million on behalf of a nine year old child who suffers from cerebral palsy as a result of negligent treatment during her birth at a London hospital.