Clinical negligence
John is instructed in claims against medical professionals including consultants, doctors, GPs and nurses for clinical negligence and acts for both claimants and defendants.
John also has significant experience acting for claimants and defendants across the full range of personal injury claims. Instructions include injuries resulting in Brain injury, Cerebral palsy and Spinal injuries of the utmost severity; Chronic pain, Amputation and Complex injuries resulting in lifetime care & therapy, adaptive housing and ancillary services. John undertakes CICA claims of the utmost severity, cases concerning nervous shock and Fatal accidents in both the clinical negligence and personal injury fields.
Resolution of disputes has been achieved by negotiation, mediation and joint settlement meetings, as well as by the Parliamentary & Healthcare Ombudsman and litigation in the courts. Inquests present an opportunity to gather evidence and insight at an early stage where clinical negligence is suspected and John accepts instructions for these hearings.
Examples of cases undertaken:-
- Bardsley v Dovehaven Nursing Home – successful defence of a claim for negligent care by a nursing home
- Coleman v S – shoulder surgeon negligently performed four part shoulder arthroplasty
- Bloomfield v Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust – negligently performed herniogram resulting in a perforated bowel & failure to obtain informed consent
- Muminolglu v Sharma – claim against a GP for wrongful prescribing of medication
- Nicols v Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Trust – negligent treatment with regard to operative treatment to remove a needle from a patient and negligence causing infection
- Leybourne v King’s College Hospital NHS Trust – negligent diagnosis of cancer causing premature death