Clinical negligence

Partner and head of clinical negligence – areas of practice include all aspects of medical negligence litigation on behalf of adults and children, including orthopaedics, general surgery and birth injury

Trained at Simon Alexander and Co, Leeds; qualified 1994; assistant solicitor at Hartley and Worstenholme, Castleford 1994-2005, made partner 1999 and subsequently head of clinical negligence and personal injury; assistant solicitor Chadwick Lawrence, Huddersfield 2005-07; assistant solicitor then partner at Atherton Godfrey, 2007 to date. Notable cases: Reynolds v The United Kingdom 2694/08 [2012] ECHR 437

Law Society Clinical Negligence Accreditation Scheme, Senior Litigator with Association of Personal Injury Lawyers

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Wakefield; Wolverhampton Polytechnic and York College of Law; 1990 LLB Hons, 1991 Law Society Finals; 1996 advanced Diploma in Personal Injury Litigation

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