England - West Midlands • Insurance
Weightmans LLP
Weightmans LLP has a stellar reputation for its work in this area. The nimble team covers a broad variety of high-value and contentious cases. At the cornerstone of the practice, is defending numerous birth and brain injury cases for various NHS trusts. Its dedicated GP team continues to receive a high number of primary care claim instructions and it also has considerable strength in group claims. Names to note include Deborah Bannister and Tony Yeaman . Jasmine Armstrong has advised on many defendant clinical negligence actions for NHS Resolution. Sarah Hopwood advises national healthcare teams on cases where there is suspected exaggeration or fraud. Principal associate, Christian Lowden joined the team from Kennedys .
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‘The service received from Weightmans is courteous, professional and always on point. The Weightmans team are friendly and approachable and are able to provide broad support across all areas of need, providing support and timely advice to inform important decisions'.
‘Jasmine Armstrong has excellent knowledge and experience. Jasmine is a first point of contact and is invaluable in connecting the client to the right member of the wider team'.
- 'Sarah Hopwood is an excellent lawyer who is willing to work with the client to find the right solution, not just offer advice'.
‘They work with us collaboratively'.
- 'Very receptive to feedback and understand how we like to do things'.
‘Very focused on client care and understands our needs'.
Key clients
- NHS Resolution
- Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
- Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHS FT
- Herefordshire and Worcestershire Combined Legal services NHS Trust
- Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- Newcastle upon Tyne NHS FT
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- University Hospitals of Birmingham NHS FT
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS FT
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHST
- Broadspire
- Weight to Go Ltd
- Baxter Healthcare Ltd
Work highlights
- Advising University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS on a liability trial concerning a blood clot which caused serious injury. The court preferred the defendant’s evidence and dismissed the claim.
- Acting for Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital NHS FT on an obstetric claim which involved various allegations of negligence, where the parties used ENE (early neutral evaluation) to resolve a factual dispute.
- Acting for University Hospitals of Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in a complex spinal injury claim where liability was admitted swiftly but the route to resolution was highly complex.
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Leading individuals
Jasmine is manager of the Birmingham Healthcare team. Since 2001, Jasmine has provided specialist advice managing clinical negligence claims for NHS Resolution. Her practice spans general healthcare advice dealing with inquests, best interests assessments for children and adults; CQC interventions; deprivation of liberty issues; data security and information governance issues for NHS Trusts and other healthcare providers. Her good understanding of the clinical and resource pressures ensures her advice is pragmatic and robust. She trains colleagues and clients, educating healthcare staff upon aspects of healthcare law including claims, inquests and the implications this has upon safety and learning drawing on her wealth of experience of clinical claims. She leads on changing culture by using innovative dispute resolution techniques to resolve claims as early as possible.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Deborah Bannister, Jasmine Armstrong, Sarah Hopwood, Tony Yeaman