JMW Solicitors LLP

Angharad Hughes

Partner specialising in brain and spinal injury. Angharad has developed great expertise in a wide range of clinical negligence claims and now focuses on cases involving serious injuries to patients, including brain damage, spinal injuries and fatalities. In 2018 she obtained a compensation settlement totalling £22 million for a child who suffered brain damage after their birth was mismanaged to cover the cost of his lifelong care. In the same year she secured £1.75 million for a man left with permanent disabilities due to negligent treatment of cauda equina syndrome. Angharad also has specialist experience in kernicterus cases and in 2015 obtained £8.8 million for a young boy with this form of severe brain damage due to mistakes made in the treatment of newborn jaundice. Angharad has more recently secured an approved settlement of another kernicterus case in the capitalised sum of £18million in August 2020 cases as well as case relating to management of infection leading to a below knee amputation for £2.35m in January 2019. Angharad has also more recently settled a number of spinal injury cases, one settling for £1.7m in June 2023. Angharad also resolved a complex case relating to birth injury due to failure to manage maternal sepsis in the sum of approximately £10million.

Eddie Jones

Eddie Jones is head of the clinical negligence department at JMW. As well as overseeing the running of the department, Eddie handles serious and high-value compensation claims arising from avoidable patient injury. This includes maximum severity cerebral palsy claims relating to birth and neonatal care errors. He has won many of these complex claims and secured a £26m care package for a boy who sustained brain damage during his birth after signs that he was in distress were not acted on and his delivery delayed. Eddie also has extensive experience of cauda equina syndrome claims and is recognised as a leading practitioner nationally. In 2019 he secured one of the highest compensation settlements paid by an English hospital trust on a cauda equina syndrome claim at £9.3m. Eddie has led his practice to develop significant expertise in cauda equina claims and its average compensation settlement is significantly higher than the national average. Eddie was Partner of the Year in the 2019 Manchester Legal Awards. He is also involved with numerous charities and support services.

Sally Leonards

Sally Leonards is a longstanding partner in the clinical negligence department at JMW. She handles high value clinical negligence compensation claims but has particular expertise in unusual, complex and catastrophic injury cases especially birth injury, brain and spinal injury claims. In her 25+ years career Sally has secured numerous multimillion-pound settlements for children and adults in need of specialist care and accommodation due to cerebral palsy and other brain injuries. Sally's most recent settlement amounts to £25 million. Sally’s most recent settlements for children with brain injuries have included 2 cases with compensation of £25 million each and another settlement of  £15 million. Cauda equina syndrome claims are another specialist area for Sally and she is currently representing numerous victims of this type of medical negligence across the country. 

Steven Brown

Partner specialising in claims arising from brain and spinal injuries and particularly those relating to cerebral palsy, kernicterus, and cauda equina syndrome.

Jodie Miller

Partner specialising in brain and spinal injury. I have developed expertise in a wide range of clinical negligence claims since qualifying but now focus on cases involving serious injury such as brain damage, spinal injuries and amputations.