Case studies

We have secured settlement for our client who pursued a clinical negligence claim against his former private orthopaedic surgeon, Mr Sait. This is one in a series of case studies relating to procedures performed by this surgeon at Fawkham Manor Hospital.

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.

The claimant in this case received £60,000 for a private gynaecologist’s failure to amend her consent form and discuss with her the change in surgical procedure to a subtotal hysterectomy rather than a total hysterectomy.

We concluded a claim for a woman who was informed she had pancreatic cancer and underwent major surgery to remove her pancreas, only to be told her tumour was benign.

In the landmark case of Montgomery v Lanarkshire, Lady Hale made the following concluding remarks in her judgment: “It is now well recognised that the interest which the law of negligence protects is a person’s interest in their own physical and psychiatric integrity, an important feature of which is their autonomy, their freedom to decide what shall and shall not be done with their body.”

We have recently settled a case against an NHS trust for failing to diagnose a fracture of our client’s right foot.

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 recently settled a claim against an NHS trust for a delay in diagnosing and operating on ovarian torsion. The patient was admitted to hospital with severe abdominal pain on her left side, vomiting and haematuria.

We have recently settled a complex case for a client who experienced a significant delay in diagnosing and treating her fallopian tube torsion. It was not until five days after her admission that she finally underwent laparoscopic surgery.

Our medical negligence team was instructed by the family of an elderly lady who had passed away. Prior to her death she was admitted to hospital, during which time a significant pressure sore developed and deteriorated.

Our clinical negligence team has settled a claim against Mr Nadeem Saeed, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, for inappropriate post-operative management following wisdom tooth extraction surgery.

A substantial settlement has been awarded to our client, who suffered an irreparable bladder injury after a simple transvaginal tension free vaginal tape-obturator procedure.