Harding Evans LLP

A ‘standout team’ in south Wales, Newport-based Harding Evans LLP has ’great strength in depth’, ensuring that it is able to achieve ‘impressive results’ across a wide spectrum of primarily high-value serious clinical negligence claims, often for very vulnerable clients. As well as acting on the core clinical negligence matters, the team is also able to leverage the firm’s strong Court of Protection and private client offering to provide a truly holistic service. One of the most experienced practitioners in the field, Ken Thomas ’combines calm confidence with a powerful intellect and wide-ranging knowledge of medico-legal matters’, including as it relates to cerebral palsy, Cauda Equina and cancer misdiagnosis cases. The ‘pre-eminent solicitor for catastrophic clinical negligence litigation in south Wales’, Emma Scourfield has a ’wonderful way with clients’ and excels at handling catastrophic brain and spinal injuries. Recognised as a ‘first-rate legal mind’, Sara Haf Uren is able ’to juggle a huge workload of complex cases’, co-heading the team alongside Lauren Watkins. At associate level, Debra King has ‘an impressive knowledge of medicine and the law’ and is particularly skilled at handling negligence at nursing homes and on pressure sore cases.