Case studies

Our client, a woman in her late seventies, suffered a serious injury to her tibia resulting in prolonged non-union after being injured in a car collision caused by her husband.

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.

We have recently settled a modest, but complicated claim for a client who suffered an injury to her foot while out with friends on a day’s sailing experience. They were packing away at the end of the day when she stumbled and fell backwards into the cockpit of the boat, a distance of two to three feet. She twisted and landed awkwardly on her left heel, which was immediately painful and quickly became swollen and discoloured.

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 case against East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust involving an incorrectly performed catheterisation which had serious consequences.

We have recently settled one of several cases against Frimley Park Hospital in relation to care provided by consultant gynaecologist Jayne Cockburn, who over a period of many years recommended and performed unnecessary surgery on a number of patients.

This case involved a significant breach of duty when a private ophthalmic surgeon performed surgery that our client had explicitly told him she did not want.

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 recently settled a claim for damages of more than £1 million for the family of a man who died in a road traffic accident while driving to work one morning.

We have settled a claim for our client, Mr P, a man in his fifties who had experienced a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of cauda equina syndrome with serious consequences.

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 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.