Case studies

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.

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.

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 have settled a claim for a client who suffered a neurological injury as a result of withdrawal of her usual morphine dose.

We have settled a claim on behalf of our client who, following negligently performed hip surgery, was left with leg length discrepancy and a painful hip and back, which caused her to require revision total hip replacement surgery within two years of the initial operation.

We have recently settled a claim for damages for a client in relation to a failure to remove his entire appendix during a laparoscopic appendicectomy in February 2014.

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

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.

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 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 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.