clinical negligence
Cloisters is at the cutting edge of clinical negligence law, playing a lead role in many of the major cases such as A v Powys Local Health Board (£10.7m), the highest ever clinical negligence award at trial and the first to break through the £10m barrier.
Cloisters is Chambers and Partners’ top ranked claimant clinical negligence set. Our clinical negligence team also moved up two ranks from band 4 to band 2 in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners. In 2010 we estimate that our barristers were involved in cases recovering in excess of £135 million for injury victims by way of trial or settlements. In 2011 Joel Donovan and Patricia Hitchcock were appointed silk.
In the past year alone we have been instructed in many of the major value cases including a series of cerebral palsy claims: Hammond, a cerebral palsy case involving a rare lump sum settlement of £8.1 million; C (£7m ongoing); H and B-S (£8m ongoing); Smith (£5.1m); ABC (£5.1m); Taylor (£5.2m); Hayes (£6.5m); and M v City Hospitals (6.25m).
Other recent cases include Sarwar v Ali, one of the leading cases on care cost indexation and a £7.158m award; Iqbal v Whipps Cross University Hospitals, a major case on compensation for the “lost years” and the doctrine of precedent; Crofton v NHSLA on impact of local authority payments on the Claimant’s damages for care; and a £7m claim for a child who suffered brain damage at birth due to negligent delivery; K v Powys, the settlement of a £8m claim for brain injury caused by misprescription of an anti-epileptic; and X v A, a £6.6m infant claim for brain damage caused by hypoglycaemia.
The team is led by Simon Taylor QC and has a large number of highly respected practitioners. More than a quarter of the team (including Simon Taylor QC, Patricia Hitchcock QC, Joel Donovan QC, Simon Dyer, William Latimer–Sayer and Lisa Sullivan) are currently recommended for clinical negligence in Chambers and Partners.
Members have experience in a wide range of clinical negligence law and related areas including:
- Birth injury and other brain injury cases
- Cancer (delayed diagnosis and misdiagnosis)
- Cases arising in all medical specialties
- Causation
- Consent to treatment cases
- Inquests
- Limitation
- Medical and related disciplinary matters
- barristers
- Sheryn Omeri
- Anna Beale
- Nathaniel Caiden
- Andrew Buchan
- Rachel Chambers
- Sally Cowen
- Olivia-Faith Dobbie
- Will Dobson
- Joel Donovan QC
- Daniel Dyal
- Simon Dyer
- Sarah Fraser Butlin
- Yvette Genn
- Patricia Hitchcock QC
- Linda Jacobs
- William Latimer-Sayer
- Martyn McLeish
- Chris Milsom
- Caroline Musgrave
- Martin Seaward
- Catriona Stirling
- Lisa Sullivan
- Simon Taylor QC
- Hannah Godfrey
related news
William Latimer-Sayer is once again named Chambers & Partners Junior of the Year
Cloisters has given two personal injury and clinical negligence seminars:
Problem issues and problem clients: How to win the case when the client isn’t straightforward
Adding Value: Litigating and settling heavy cases
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related publications
- Andrew Buchan and William Latimer-Sayer are co-authors of Personal Injury Schedules (2010)
- Patricia Hitchcock and Lisa Sullivan co-write a chapter on Limitation in Butterworth's Personal Injuries Service