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Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC KC
Position
Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC is a leading practitioner in Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury claims. Lizanne has a distinguished reputation for representing Claimants with highly complex claims for catastrophic injury. In clinical negligence she has particular expertise and experience in birth damage and neo-natal claims but acts in claims arising in a wide range of circumstances. In personal injury she acts for Claimants with head injuries, spinal injuries and other complex multiple injuries.
Lizanne’s work also involves multi-party actions and she recently acted for over 700 Claimants in the litigation against Mr Ian Paterson, Spire Healthcare and HEFT. Lizanne has also been instructed in a number of multi-party actions arising out of sexual abuse and physical abuse of children and adults in institutions including the Jimmy Savile litigation and the Winterbourne View claims. Claims against private hospitals, the catholic church and local authorities have involved a number of cases which have resulted in the development of the law in respect of vicarious liability.
Career
Qualified 1974; silk 1999; co-author of ‘Child Abuse Compensation Claims’ (Jordans); co-author ‘Clinical Negligence (A Practitioner’s Handbook)’ (Oxford University Press).
Memberships
Personal Injury Bar Association; Family Law Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association, APIL; AvMA.
Education
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (1975 MA Politics, Philosophy and Economics); Bar Finals (1974).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Personal injury
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC –1 Crown Office Row ‘Vast experience and gravitas in negotiations’
1 Crown Office Row fields ‘outstanding practitioners at all levels’, and advises on a range of cognitive, spinal and orthopaedic injuries stemming from workplace or traffic accidents, but sees significant specialism in sexual abuse claims, including those involving children in educational and faith organizations. This is an area that Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC is notably proficient in, evident in her recent involvement in the Supreme Court case YXA v Wolverhampton CC, which saw the failure of the council to remove children from abusive parents the primary object of contention. Jim Duffy also typically acts on behalf of child abuse survivors.
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC –1 Crown Office Row ‘Lizanne is the definition of powerhouse. Driven by a passion to improve the lives of children and young adults who have suffered serious injury as a result of negligence, she applies herself with huge energy to some of the most difficult and complicated cases.’
A ‘leading clinical negligence set’, 1 Crown Office Row is highlighted for ‘strength in depth‘ across the whole of the range of clinical litigation the set’s silks and juniors operate in. The team is active in disputes involving NHS, private healthcare providers, along with medical defence organisations in both domestic and cross-border cases. Typically active in complex, multi-layered disputes, the set represents clients and defendants in birth injury mandates, including severe cerebral palsy cases. In addition, the set’s practitioners are experienced in a range of spinal cord, surgical errors, cardiac and medicinal issues litigation. Notably, Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC and Neil Sheldon KC represented a claimant in CDE v Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, a high value birth injury case that reached the Court of Appeal involving the application of the Bolam and Bolitho tests.