Medical Negligence and Personal Injury

Avril Scally is a Partner and Head of the Medical Negligence & Personal Injury Team at Lavelle Partners. She specialises in complex medical negligence claims and is vastly experienced in areas like psychiatric misdiagnosis, cancer misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, the CervicalCheck screening controversy, obstetric negligence, wrongful birth, nerve damage, negligent care and surgical negligence.

With more than 18 years’ experience in her field, Avril is well-known within the profession for representing a significant number of claimants in high-profile cases like the Hepatitis C Tribunal, the Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme and cases against various hospitals and medical device providers like DePuy.

She acts as a specialist advisor in relation to many  medical negligence claims including birth injuries like cerebral palsy and Erbs palsy, defective medical devices and orthopedic cases among many others.

Avril is a go-to expert in relation to complex medical negligence claims for many media outlets and often speaks on the topic of medical negligence at conferences and events and is an active member of the DSBA Litigation Committee. She has been a panel speaker for the Advanced Diploma in Medical Law in the Kings Inn and regularly speaks at events such as the Medical Negligence Claims Conference.

Recent Experience Specialist in psychiatric misdiagnosis and negligence claims. Specialist in relation to birth injury/cerebral palsy, Erbs palsy, child deafness and other obstetric claims. Represents patients in delayed cancer diagnosis and medical misdiagnosis cases. Represented many women who received incorrect smear results in the CervicalCheck screening programme. Expert in brain injury claims. Represented clients at the High-profile Hepatitis C Tribunal and the Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme. Specialist in orthopaedic negligence claims. Awards / Professional Recognition Shortlisted for the prestigious award of Brain / Spinal Injury Law Firm of the Year in the inaugural Neuro Rehab Times Awards, 2023 Winner of Personal Injury / Medical Negligence Law Firm / Team of the Year at the Irish Law Awards, 2023 & 2022 Medical Negligence Team of the Year, Global Law Experts, 2021 & 2020 Medical Negligence Law Firm of the Year, Corporate INTL, 2020 What  our Clients Say

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the amazing legal work Avril Scally and Lavelle Partners did on my behalf. Avril and the team did everything in her power to help me to settle and resolve my case. I am so grateful for her passion, dedication, and professionalism. I’ve never hired solicitor before, but Lavelle Partners are no doubt the best company I could have ever worked with. Thank you so much!!! (Medical Negligence client, 2022)

I found Avril compassionate in her approach, very aware of the delicacy of the situation. I trusted her and the team completely and knew they’d do everything possible to ensure I was appropriately compensated.  (Medical Negligence client, 2022) It’s obvious that Avril is hugely experienced in negligence cases. She asks the right questions and I found the whole process efficient and I always felt I was in safe hands. (Medical Negligence client, 2021)

Member of AVMA (Action Against Medical Accident) Member of APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) Member of the Litigation Committee of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association Law Society of Ireland Consulegis

Partner, Head of Medical  Negligence & Personal Injury

LLB (Hons) 1997 Diploma in Commercial Litigation, Law Society, 2008