Boutique firm Armstrong Foulkes LLP is well-known in the industry for its high level of experience in claimant clinical negligence work. The Middlesbrough-based team consists of the firm’s key partners Hilton Armstrong, Joanne Davies, Ashleigh Holt and Kathryn Watson, who support claimants in a wide variety of claims including surgical and birth complications, medical misdiagnoses, or late diagnosis cases. Both Davies and Watson are accredited members of the AvMA specialist clinical negligence panel, while Watson is praised by clients as ‘the ultimate professional’ and ’supremely knowledgeable and organised’. Holt receives plaudits for being ‘thoroughly professional and on top of all proceedings’.
Testimonials
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- 'Ashleigh Holt and Kathryn Watson are very capable solicitors. They prepare evidential and expert evidence with great care, and are ready to pursue all possible lines of enquiry but with a realistic appreciation of litigation risk.'
- 'Kathryn Watson is the ultimate professional. Throughout she has treated us with care, respect and compassion. She is supremely knowledgeable, organised and her attention to detail is superb. She is a highly skilled communicator. We are kept up to date with developments in a timely fashion and with clear transparency. As a result, we always feel very much an important and valued contributor to the process which reflects the personalised service we have received. Kathryn is incredibly reliable, approachable and has been instrumental in guiding and inspiring us through a very difficult time with much appreciated understanding, kindness and focus.'
Work highlights
- Pursuing a claim issued in the High Court against multiple Defendants for damages for an above knee amputation the claimant underwent.
- Assisted a client in a settled claim for £335,000 for the injury the claimant sustained to his upper arm.