Janice Gardner > Russell-Cooke LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Russell-Cooke LLP Offices
2 PUTNEY HILL
LONDON
SW15 6AB
England
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Janice Gardner
Work Department
Personal injury and clinical negligence
Position
Janice is a partner in the personal injury and clinical negligence team.
In her 30 years of practising as a clinical negligence and personal injury solicitor she has seen all manner of negligently acquired injuries and is un-shockable. She has a huge amount of experience to bring to each case because of her experience and technical skills.
She has a varied caseload of both clinical negligence and personal injury cases, but her main area of expertise is in infection, spinal injuries and brain injuries.
She has successfully won many cases at trial and never shies away from those cases at the more difficult end of the spectrum.
As now the most senior lawyer in her team, she focuses her energies on the cases that she thinks she can add most value to, namely those that are technically difficult or very high value. She also enjoys working on cases where she can push the legal boundaries and challenge bad law.
Career
Trained Anthony Gold; qualified 1993; assistant solicitor Anthony Gold specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence 1991-97; assistant solicitor Jones Maidment Wilson specialising exclusively in clinical negligence 1997-99; assistant solicitor at Russell-Cooke (until made partner in 2001) specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence.
Frequent contributor to Lawtel, Clinical Risk and APIL’s Focus Magazine.
Memberships
- Law Society, Clinical Negligence Specialist Panel Member
- Member of APIL and AvMA
- Back-up Legal Panel member
- Trustee of the Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre (specialising in riding for disabled children)
- Volunteer and Committee Member of Hemel Hempstead Recreational Ski Group for disabled skiers
Education
Tulketh High School, Preston, Lancashire; Swansea University (BA Hons History 2(1)); York College of Law.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
(Leading partners)Noted for its ‘great reputation for delivering results’, the clinical negligence practice at Russell-Cooke LLP is co-led by Janice Gardner, a ‘seasoned operator’ in the team’s cognitive, spinal and infection injury litigation, along with complex birth injuries, and Dominic Fairclough, a key operator in the department’s inquest cases. Bernadette McGhie is attributed with ‘great commitment and effective judgment’, and is a key operator in the team’s brain injury, cerebral palsy, and maternal injury cases. The team is active in a number of clinical negligence mandates, ranging from major birth injuries resultant from asphyxiation, catastrophic surgical errors and cognitive injuries, misdiagnosis and delayed treatment as well as psychiatric and self-harm injury claims. Ruth Roberts is a notable adviser in inquests and fatal surgical injury disputes.
London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
The clinical negligence practice at Russell-Cooke LLP fields a ‘very personable and competent team’, offering its expertise in both non-contentious inquests, along with complex and often sensitive disputes involving fatalities, sexual abuse, catastrophic injuries acquired in a wide variety of circumstances, and group claims. The team is additionally proficient in a number of novel and sophisticated claims, including those involving psychiatric injuries and complex causation claims. Highlighted for her ‘efficiency and speed’, practice head Sarah Towler often advises on cognitive and spinal injury claims, along with work and traffic accidents litigation. Janice Gardner specialises in infectious injuries, along with catastrophic spine and brain injuries. In addition to heading the team’s inquest group, Dominic Fairclough often advises on fatal claims, owing to his extensive expertise in coronial and post-fatality investigations. Other key figures include Lucy Lawson, a port of call for serious orthopaedic, cognitive and spinal injury claims.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Clinical negligence: claimant London > Insurance
- Personal injury: claimant London > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Court of protection
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Immigration
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Employment > Immigration: human rights
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Social housing: tenant
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Real estate > Planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Private client > Agriculture and estates