Accident and Emergency
This is often the first point of contact a patient will have with the NHS due to an illness or after an injury. The staff who practise in emergency medicine have skills in prevention, diagnosis and management.
Case reports
T -v- Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust
The Claimant was taken to the Accident & Emergency Department at Calderdale Royal Infirmary after being knocked down by a car
and was diagnosed as having an unstable short spiral fracture of the right femur. Her leg was placed in a splint which had to be re-applied because it was the wrong size. She was admitted to the children’s ward of the hospital. She remained in hospital but there was a failure to monitor the healing process of her leg in the splint, to the extent that poor union of the femur was achieved and her leg was bent when the bone was healed and had a boney protruberance. The bowing of the leg also entailed shortening of the femur and consequently the leg itself.
The case settled for £28,000.00 which included damages for care provided to the Claimant by her parents, the cost of some reconstructive surgery on her scarring and damages for her psychological distress, as well as for the leg injuries overall and for the otherwise would have been unnecessary.
Leading North-West Personal Injury Firm Receives Praise In The Latest Edition Of The Legal 500
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FIRM ALSO OBTAINS TWO NEW CONTRACTS TO PROVIDE PROVIDE LEGAL AID FUNDING IN CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE CASES IN LIVERPOOL AND YORKSHIRE TO ADD TO EXISTING CONTRACT FOR MANCHESTER AND NORTH WEST
Legal 500 is a comprehensive guide to lawyers, widely regarded as offering the definitive judgment of the capabilities of law firms. In its newly published 2010 guide it ranks highly the developing team of specialist clinical negligence lawyers at John Pickering and Partners LLP.
The guide notes the personal nature of the service provided by the firm in clinical negligence.
The firm also achieved high ranking in its “truly specialist” disease litigation department, principally for its work in asbestos-related illness.
Last year, the clinical negligence department at John Pickering and Partners LLP, headed by Claire Horton, recruited Rachel Donovan at its Liverpool office. Ruth Davies, a partner at the Halifax office, is also devoting more time to clinical negligence. As a result of developments in the team, the firm also gained new contracts to do legal aid work in clinical negligence in its Liverpool and Halifax offices, having held a contract at the Manchester office for many years. It is now one of the very few firms in the Merseyside area to hold a franchise for this type of work. The franchise indicates that the Legal Services Commission consider the firm to be a quality provider of legal services in this area.
Claire Horton, head of the clinical negligence team at John Pickering’s said “I am delighted that the Legal 500 report that our developing team is ranked highly in this area of work and that the very personal nature of our service to clients has been acknowledged. I am also pleased that we will now be able to increase the work carried on at our Liverpool and Halifax offices in the capable hands of Rachel Donovan and Ruth Davies and to help victims of medical accidents in those areas. We already have a strong tradition of acting for clinical negligence clients all over the country because of our specialism in this work.”
FURTHER INFORMATION :
Email : hort@johnpickering.co.uk / website : www.johnpickering.co.uk
Tel: 0161 834 1251 / freefone: 0800 854201 / Mobile: 07904 005248
Email : rd@johnpickering.co.uk / website : www.johnpickering.co.uk
Tel: 01422 345535/ freefone: 0800 854201 / Mobile: 07810 502084
Email : don@johnpickering.co.uk / website : www.johnpickering.co.uk
Tel: 0151 227 1214/ freefone: 0800 854201 / Mobile: 07773 784530
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The Legal 500, online and in Directory form, provides worldwide guidance about lawyers and their firms to all individuals and organisations requiring legal assistance, and it takes soundings from both clients and from within the industry itself to provide its ranking of legal specialists.
The Legal Services Commission have recently offered new contracts to all Legal Aid Providers of clinical negligence commencing in October 2010, following a lengthy tender process.
About John Pickering and Partners LLP
We have dealt with Medical and Clinical Negligence claims for many years. We are members of the Action for Victims of Medical Accidents (AVMA) panel and the Law Society panel. We have a legal aid franchise in Clinical Negligence which means the Legal Services Commission has approved our expertise and systems.
Why choose John Pickering and Partners solicitors if you have a clinical negligence claim?
This practice has a franchise from the Legal Services Commission. This means we can apply for public funding formerly known as legal aid for you. Most firms are not allowed to ask for public funding for clinical negligence cases.
We only act for victims of medical negligence, unlike other firms who also represent doctors and Health Authorities.