Lawyers

Jenny Kennedy

Jenny Kennedy

Work Department

Injury and medical claims.

Position

Jenny Kennedy is a Partner on Anthony Gold’s Injury and Medical Claims team. A complex brain, spinal and amputation expert, Jenny is well known for representing foreign national clients injured in the UK as well as British nationals injured abroad. She settled the first reported case involving indexation of periodical payments to a foreign jurisdiction and secured a verdict of unlawful killing before a UK Coroner for the family of a mother killed whilst on holiday In South America. Described as "one of the most respected PI claimant lawyers in the country" her expertise includes dealing with all the associated elements of catastrophic injury litigation and managing the needs of clients with issues associated with significant head injury. She has a medical background, having qualified as a psychiatric nurse, and her clinical negligence expertise includes a wide range of claims of complexities with a special interest in psychiatric and orthopaedic injury cases.

Career

Former psychiatric nurse (RMN); co-author of ‘PI Practice’ Buchan Kennedy & Woolf (Butterworths Lexis Nexis); co-author of ‘Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure’; co-author of ‘Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims’ David Marshall, Jenny Kennedy and Rehana Azib (Bloomsbury Professional).

Memberships

Law Society Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Panels; on recommended list for Spinal Injuries Association and Headway.

Leisure

Playing piano, horseriding, long distance running.

Mentions

Insurance • London

Clinical negligence: claimant

Hall of fame
Insurance • London

Personal injury: claimant

Hall of fame