Senior AssociateGabrielle has been ranked by Chambers as an Associate to Watch and Legal 500 2021 as a Rising Star. She specialises in acting for individuals with spinal cord conditions including cauda equina syndrome, and brain injuries arising out of clinical negligence.Gabrielle has significant experience of acting in High Court litigation for clients with catastrophic injuries arising out of medical treatment. She has been recognised in Chambers for demonstrating particular expertise in spinal injury cases. She has specialised in clinical negligence litigation since qualifying in 2004.Gabrielle has acted in cases involving delayed diagnosis of spinal cord compression causing tetraplegia; missed diagnosis of spinal infection leading to paraplegia; mismanagement during surgical procedures; late diagnosis of cauda equina syndrome and failure to obtain proper consent. A number of her cases have involved multiple defendants.
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Stewarts Law LLP
Stewarts Law LLP ensures a high quality of representation for clients by providing specialists in the most complex issues of clinical negligence and keeping the caseload low to maintain a bespoke level of service. The team has experience handling a range of claims, including spinal injury, birth injury and cerebral palsy, major failures in treatment for mental health, and fatal accidents. The team also has capabilities to handle the subset of cases where clinical negligence and personal injury overlap. Frank Pinch leads the team in Leeds, working across the full range of claims handled by the firm; he also has experience working on mandates with a cross-border element. In team news, Amy Fielding was promoted to partner in May 2023. At the senior associate level, Gabrielle Ross is recommended.
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‘Stewarts provide a caring and compassionate service, which extends to the experts chosen in support of the claim. Both Stewarts and their experts know the detail in depth and execute their evaluation and interpretation of the data with gusto.’
‘The Stewarts team simply understood our plight and fully understood our long-term goal beyond the settlement of the claim. Amy Fielding fully appreciated our situation and quickly formed a bond with us; we regard Amy as a friend who always delivered what was best for us without causing further upset or emotional trauma. She worked continually to ensure the process was easy to comprehend and offered unbiased views.’
‘I had excellent service from Stewarts, from the moment I made first contact with them they have been fantastic and really gone the extra mile to make the process simple and accessible from a client perspective. Every question has been answered swiftly, with regular updates and I generally could not wish for a better service.’
‘Frank Pinch, hats off to you. Throughout the process, he's been there on the other end of the phone and I feel he has gone the extra mile to accommodate meetings. Clear concise information on a regular basis puts any client's mind at ease and translating from legal speak into everyday language makes the process simpler mentally and physically given the difficult process they are trying to help with.’
‘This is a regional clinical negligence team on a par with its London team, consistently successful in representing claimants in cases of the highest complexity both in terms of liability and quantum. A market leader nationally as well as in the region.’
‘Amy Fielding combines her former nursing experience with a first-rate legal mind to devastating effect. Drives a case forward as far as is sensible and gets standout results.’
‘Stewarts are simply the best there is in claimant clinical negligence work. No stone is left unturned in investigating a case. They use the best experts, assemble the strongest legal team and ensure every relevant question is properly explored.'
‘Amy Fielding is highly experienced and extremely capable. She is very collegiate in her approach.'
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Partner and Head of Clinical Negligence Leeds. Frank has achieved some of the department’s highest damages settlements. Frank specialises in claims relating to spinal cord injury and brain injury. Frank’s experience includes: Advising a young woman who was catastrophically injured by the negligent handing of an unstable neck injury after a minor fall Advising a brain injured man after the failure of a GP to refer him urgently to hospital with a serious orbital (eye) infection
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Described by one client as leaving no stone unturned in her approach to litigation, Amy specialises in complex and high-value catastrophic injury clinical negligence claims. She has particular expertise in private multi-defendant claims and obtaining high value fatal accident claims for high net worth individuals’ families with complex future loss claims following representation at inquests. Amy advises on a diverse range of clinical negligence cases that have left her clients suffering from life-altering injuries. Although not limited to these, she predominately deals with spinal, brain and birth injury claims resulting from varying acts or omissions from negligence in a variety of health care settings in particular multi-party private treatment claims. Heading up our Inquests and Fatal Accident claims she has recently completed the Coronial Law Lecture Series 2022 at the University of Bolton. Amy represented a family in a high-value fatal accident claim for a company director, obtaining £1.46m for his estate largely for future dependency claims for his wife and children. In a recent incomplete paraplegic claim, Amy obtained a £3.3m settlement for a client with an impaired life expectancy that included a £130,000 annual payment to cover ongoing future 24-hour care. Amy also recovered £3.2m for an 80-year-old client who suffered complete paraplegia due to negligent anaesthesia. Amy recently concluded a minor acquired brain injury claim for a young person securing a £1m settlement prior to proceedings being served.
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Frank Pinch