The team at Fieldfisher, based in Manchester, is well-placed to represent claimants in a broad range of complex and high-stakes clinical negligence cases, including wrongful birth claims, as well as cases regarding maximum severity injuries and fatalities. Claire Horton has experience in acting for clients in complex catastrophic injury cases where causation ranges from maternity negligence to delayed diagnosis. Julia Hamilton has notable capabilities in handling high-value, sensitive, and complex negligence issues. Lindsay Holt's areas of focus include acting for adults with brain and spinal cord injuries and children with cerebral palsy resulting from negligence. Team lead Jenny Urwin ‘achieves incredible outcomes’ and has 30 years of experience handling clinical negligence matters of the utmost severity, including brain, birth, spinal, and neurological injuries.
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- ‘The team are fantastic, very down-to-earth and approachable, always with the clients' best interests at heart.’
- ‘Claire Horton and Jenny Urwin are both a pleasure to work alongside; they are kind, approachable and make catastrophically injured clients and their families feel safe and confident that they they will secure what they need to make a difference to their lives immediately and at final settlement. They appear to genuinely care about the people that they work with.’
Work highlights
Represented a child suffering brain injury following a failure to bring about earlier delivery at birth, resulting in cerebral palsy and physical, cognitive and behavioural problems, in reaching a £28.5m settlement.
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Practice head
Jenny Urwin
Other key lawyers
Julia Hamilton; Lindsay Holt; Claire Horton