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Clinical negligence: claimant

Boyes Turner

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Boyes Turner has a demonstrably strong record on high value and both medically and legally complex cases of maximum severity. Critical brain injuries, including child brain injuries, and cerebral palsy claims comprise the bulk of the team's caseload. Pre-eminent clinical negligence lawyer and brain injury expert Susan Brown leads the practice, specialising in child brain injury arising from birth asphyxia and trauma. Richard Money-Kyrle is 'an unflappable personality who is calm under pressure and secures great results for his clients'. 'Outstanding claimant solicitor' Julie Marsh and the 'bright, efficient, really hard-working' Vanessa Wand come highly recommended by clients.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘They fully understand our circumstances and this means they understand the speed we can all reply and offer our responses on our side. This does mean a lot when having a very busy family and work life.’

  • ‘Vanessa Wand has from the beginning been a credit to Boyes Tuner. She has a lovely manner which is both caring and considerate but professional. She regularly keeps me informed of any developments and as such I never feel that I’m left in the dark.’

  • ‘Communication with them was brilliant, they explained everything to see and explained what steps it would take and at what step we were at each time’

  • ‘Susan Brown was really good, made me feel at ease throughout the whole process. When ever I had a question or wasn’t sure about something she took the time out to answer time or explain things to me. I wasn’t stressed throughout any of this and I think Susan helped me not get stressed’

  • ‘Boyes Turner are an excellent claimant clinical negligence firm in Reading who are led by Susan Brown who has approaching 30 years’ experience in the field. They have a great team of associates who are each dedicated to their clients’ cases and ensuring that they achieve the best possible results.’

  • ‘Susan Brown has a very calm and collected manner and she is a real team player in deploying her experience and expertise to good effect for her clients and supporting the more junior solicitors in the firm with their case load.'

  • 'Julie Marsh is an outstanding claimant solicitor who is clever, dedicated, hard-working, down-to-earth and tenacious. Vanessa Wand is a real asset to the team at Boyes Turner, as she is bright, efficient, really hard-working, always cheerful and empathetic to the client’s needs.’

Work highlights

  • Secured 100% liability judgments in a premature obstructed vaginal breech birth injury case arising from the defendant hospital’s failure to deliver the known breech presentation baby when the mother expressed concerns about being in premature labour.
  • Secured a £1,330,000 settlement in a cauda equina syndrome (CES) spinal cord injury clinical negligence claim.
  • Secured a £750,000 settlement for a young woman with physical and psychological injuries in a cervical cancer delayed diagnosis clinical negligence claim.

Lawyers

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Susan Brown
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Susan leads the Clinical Negligence team at Boyes Turner and has specialised in complex and high value clinical negligence work for over 25 years. She has a specialist expertise in child brain injury arising from birth asphyxia and trauma, neonatal negligence, including Kernicterus, hypoglycaemia and infection related brain injury. Susan uses liability judgments and interim payments to provide early respite and life-changing resources for the client. She ensures that her clients’ true needs are reflected in settlements which balance capital costs with long-term security in terms of annual payments.
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Vanessa Wand
Boyes Turner
As a senior associate-solicitor in Boyes Turner's outstanding medical negligence team, Vanessa Wand has secured millions of pounds of compensation for her clients. Vanessa deals exclusively with complex, high value medical negligence claims.  She has a specialist interest in obstetric and birth-related injuries to both mother and baby, which include cerebral palsy and severe neonatal injury, maternal death, complex stillbirth with psychiatric maternal injury, perinatal tears and cloacal injury, alongside her broad-based expertise with cases involving amputation and other life threatening, fatal and permanently disabling conditions. Working both independently and as an invaluable support to the partners in the group, Vanessa is an expert in quantifying claims involving cerebral palsy and other types of neonatal, severe, neurological injuries, consistently enabling her clients to receive the highest possible compensation awards.
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Richard Money-Kyrle
Boyes Turner
Richard is a partner in Boyes Turner’s outstanding medical negligence team. Richard is deeply committed to making a difference to the lives of severely injured patients and their families. He represents clients who have been brain damaged resulting in cerebral palsy, tetraplegia and PVS, and disabled by spinal injuries, cauda equina and amputation. Richard’s gentle and compassionate manner with clients is combined with intellectually rigorous use of the legal process to secure early admissions of liability, substantial interim payments and maximum compensation to provide his clients with rehabilitation, housing, education and care.
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Julie Marsh
Boyes Turner
Julie is a partner and long-standing member of the medical negligence team at Boyes Turner and specialises in complex and high value clinical negligence work. She specialises in cases involving spinal cord injury including cauda equina syndrome cases, amputation and cases involving infections such as meningitis. Julie is committed to making a difference to the lives of those severely injured as a result of medical negligence. She investigates cases thoroughly leaving no stone unturned and secures early admissions of liability as a result, allowing applications for substantial interim payments to help clients access support and rehabilitation. Julie writes on topical issues relating to clinical negligence and is especially interested in issues relating to spinal cord injuries and amputation.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Susan Brown

Other key lawyers

Richard Money-Kyrle, Julie Marsh, Vanessa Wand

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