Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence

Called to the bar in 2010.  Pupillage at 9 Gough Square under Giles Mooney QC, Claire Harden-Frost and Aileen Downey, and thereafter tenant at 9 Gough Square and 9 Gough Chambers. Contributing author to:  Criminal Injuries Compensation Claims (2nd edition); APIL Guide to RTA Liability (3rd edition); 9 Gough Square’s Clinical Negligence Claims: A Practical Guide (3rd edition).  She has also previously written for BPILS on Road Traffic Accidents.

Holly is a clinical negligence and personal injury specialist.  She is a respected junior practitioner who acts exclusively in multi-track matters, including those involving life-changing and catastrophic injuries.

In her clinical negligence work Holly has gained experience as both sole and junior counsel, including in a current case pleaded at over £20million.  She receives instructions across the full range of clinical negligence cases including birth injuries, surgical negligence, consenting issues, and missed and delayed diagnoses.  She is instructed in a number of cases involving spinal injuries, including negligent spinal surgery and delayed diagnosis of cauda equina syndrome.

Holly also acts in a broad range of personal injury claims, including those involving serious and subtle brain injuries, spinal injuries, complex orthopaedic injuries, serious psychiatric conditions and pain disorders.  She is adept at fatal accidents and lost years claims and dealing with complex liability issues.

Holly also has expertise in criminal injuries compensation claims.

MA (Cantab) Archaeology and Anthropology, St John’s College Cambridge;

Graduate Diploma in Law, City University;

Bar Vocational Course, BPP Law School.