Beth Heath > Lanyon Bowdler > Shrewsbury, England > Lawyer Profile
Lanyon Bowdler Offices
CHAPTER HOUSE NORTH
ABBEY LAWN, ABBEY FOREGATE
SHREWSBURY
SY2 5DE
England
Beth Heath
Work Department
Clinical Negligence
Position
Partner and head of the Clinical/Medical Negligence Team.
Beth combines a uniqueness of professionalism with compassion and empathy. She specialises in high value, complex cases – mainly maternity claims. She acts for a high number of children who have suffered brain damage at or around the time or their birth. She is determined and passionate about obtaining life-changing results for her clients. She is praised for her wealth of experience in drafting multi-million pound Schedules of Loss and her knowledge of the figures.
Career
- Trained at Lanyon Bowdler
- Qualified as a solicitor in 2014
- Made Associate in 2017
- Made Partner in 2020
- Head of Department from 2021
- In 2022 Beth was awarded Clinical Negligence Lawyer of the Year at the prestigious PI Awards.
Languages
English
Memberships
– APIL
– SCIL
– AvMA
Education
University of Sheffield – LLB Law
BPP Law School
Lawyer Rankings
West Midlands > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
(Leading partners)The ‘efficient and pragmatic’ team at Lanyon Bowdler adopts a ‘truly personal approach’ when dealing with cases involving birth, brain and fatal claims. It also frequently handles high-value cases relating to amputations and spinal injuries. Head of department, Beth Heath has considerable expertise in birth injury claims. Lucy Small handles many complex cases involving birth/brain injuries, as well as catastrophic and spinal injury claims. Small is also recommended for her work on amputation cases. Emma Broomfield has wide-ranging experience of handling a wide range of complicated cases, with a particular specialism in spinal injuries. Laura Weir was promoted to the partnership in January 2024. Natasha Gibbons is another significant member of the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
- Clinical negligence: claimant West Midlands > Insurance
- Leading partners West Midlands > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Family: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in the West Midlands
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Education
- Employment > Employment