Barratts Solicitors

Clinical Negligence Department

Managing Partner and Partner - Clinical Negligence Team.

I have specialised in Clinical Negligence litigation since qualifying in 1999.  I joined Barratts as Co-Director and Managing Partner in October 2021, having spent a period outside the law developing my business skills and having previously been a senior equity partner at a top 100 law firm in London (heading up the Clinical Negligence Team) and also worked as a Defendant Clinical Negligence solicitor in a top 100 NHS Panel firm.

My focus at Barratts is the role of Managing Partner for the firm.  My clinical negligence expertise covers all areas of clinical negligence, whether the mistake/error occurs in the NHS setting, the private sector or as a result of General Practitioner (GP) errors.

I have expertise in claims involving injuries of maximum severity such as brain injury, spinal injury, and birth injury claims (including cerebral palsy).  My experience covers the full spectrum of medical disciplines, and I have successfully acted for clients who have had claims arising out of:

• obstetric & gynaecological problems.
• a failure to recognise and treat infectious diseases such as meningitis.
• orthopaedic and spinal surgery including failure to diagnose cauda equina syndrome.
• A&E and trauma medicine.
• cardiology.
• abdominal surgery including failure to diagnose peritonitis.
• chest/respiratory medicine (e.g. a failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism, coronary heart disease or DVT)
• failure to diagnose cancer claims

I have also acted for many families who have suffered a bereavement in the clinical setting, whether that is the death of a care giver or income provider, or the still birth or death of a child.

I have also represented many bereaved families at inquests, particularly involving patients in the care of mental health units.  I was also the solicitor who represented the Claimant (a sickle cell patient who died in prison) in the case of Stewart & Howard v Medway NHS Trust [2004] which was instrumental in establishing the principle that the costs incurred to attend an inquest are capable of being recovered in a subsequent civil claim for damages (as incidental to the damages claim).

Qualified: 1999

Partner: 2007

Full Equity Partner: 2011

Career outside law: 2012 - 2020

Managing Partner Barratts: 2021

LLB (2:1) Birmingham City University

LPC (Distinction) Birmingham City University