Case studies

Our client was training to be a medical doctor when he was diagnosed with an abdominal tumour.

A claim was made in relation to injuries sustained shortly after our client’s birth. Our client developed pneumococcal meningitis, which would have been avoided with appropriate treatment. Hearing loss was subsequently identified as a result of the infection.

A claim was made on behalf of our client in relation to brain damage sustained at birth. Her mother suffered a ruptured uterus and required an emergency caesarean.

We have settled a claim for a 27 year old female client whose appendix was not completely removed during surgery for appendicitis. Unfortunately, her abdominal symptoms continued and this affected her ability to work and socialise.

We have recently secured damages of £2.5 million in a claim for negligence against a private consultant ophthalmic surgeon, relating to laser eye surgery performed on our client at Optegra, an eye clinic in Guildford, Surrey.

We have settled a claim on behalf of the estate and dependants of an elderly gentleman who attended St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey with a myocardial infarction, but was sent home following a failure to check his troponin levels.

We settled a claim for a client in her forties who developed a significant pain in her left knee, and after a number of investigations was advised to have a high tibial osteotomy.

Our clinical negligence team has settled a claim for a man who suffered a perforated bladder and bowel after an error was made during surgery to insert a suprapubic catheter. A suprapubic catheter is a flexible tube inserted through the abdomen that remains in place to collect urine.

We have settled a claim for a woman who suffered a number of errors in her maternity care, while she was a patient of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, tragically leading to the stillbirth of her son.

Our client has been awarded damages for negligent treatment provided to her late father which led to him requiring amputations of his left lower leg and right big toe. He had a known history of peripheral vascular disease (PVD) – a condition which causes reduced blood flow to the extremities (limb ischaemia). Despite characteristic signs of critical limb ischaemia (the most advanced form of PVD), timely treatment was not provided.

We have recently settled a claim for a woman whose consultant breast and oncoplastic surgeon failed to take correct measurements prior to performing breast symmetrisation surgery in 2017.

We have secured settlement for our client, whose cervical smear was misreported in 2013 and who then went on to develop cervical cancer in 2015.