Clearly we would not want anyone to be in a position where accident or clinical negligence has led to injury relating to brain conditions. If you are in this position, we want you to have the best advice from solicitors who are knowledgeable and experienced in this field.
We suggest you contact a number of experienced solicitors for an initial discussion before selecting a firm. Experience and a good track record are very important, as is finding someone you can trust, and can develop a good working relationship with. Accident or clinical negligence claims are hard emotionally, and can take many years. The most local firm may not always be the best option – clinical negligence is complex and there are relatively few specialists with good experience of this field.
In addition, the management of any compensation award may need the assistance of a professional Deputy appointed by the Court of Protection or may benefit from a Personal Injury Trust to protect any entitlement to benefits and other statutory funding such as direct payments – your local firm may be familiar with Deputyship and Trusts for the older clients, but the management of compensation awards for children requires specialist knowledge and expertise.
If you would like further information, please contact one or more of the following legal providers by clicking on the links below.
Fletchers Solicitors
As one of the UK’s most respected and trusted law firms, we specialise in medical negligence and personal injury and have supported individuals, and their families, with life-changing injuries for over 30 years.
Ranked among the leading lawyers in medical negligence and personal injury in the UK, our team pride themselves on being by your side, every step of the way.
We understand the life-altering impact a brain injury can have; on your child and on your whole family.
We promise to guide you through the process every step of the way, to enable you to move forward.
How we support you:
- Our award-winning medical negligence and birth injury teams with unrivalled knowledge in brain injury claims including cerebral palsy, acquired brain injury, complications during pregnancy or childbirth and birth trauma amongst others
- We have access to leading UK-based case managers who can be appointed to support your child’s rehabilitation and prioritise your child’s needs
- We will fight for interim payments to be released in order to secure the best possible medical and therapeutic care
- Our in-house Court of Protection team are on-hand to assist with life planning and financial management for anyone who doesn’t have the capacity to make these decisions themselves
- We have a vast network of relationships with specialists who will help to secure your child’s future in terms of accommodation, care and support, education, specialist equipment and finances.
Fletchers Solicitors is recognised for its medical negligence across the UK’s leading legal directories, noted for its ‘brilliant team’ in the Legal 500 and achieving prestigious Band 1 status in Chambers & Partners, with leading individuals named across the firm.
Trevor Ward
Trevor is an incredibly respected and knowledgeable solicitor with almost 40 years’ experience, dealing with complex, catastrophic clinical negligence cases. Throughout his illustrious career, he has recovered millions pounds in damages.
Ranked as a Star Individual in the Legal 500 rankings, Trevor is the Chief Assessor for the Law Society’s Clinical Negligence Panel. He is a member and former Chair of FOCIS (Forum of Complex Injury Solicitors) and a fellow of APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers). Trevor is an Executive Committee Member of the Society of Clinical Injury Lawyers (SCIL) and is a specialist panel member for Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA).
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Contact Trevor today for a free, informal, and no-obligation discussion about your situation or if you have concerns about the treatment or care you or your child has received.
Trevor Ward, Partner and Head of Birth Injury Unit
E: [email protected]
T: 0161 804 6089
W: www.fletcherssolicitors.co.uk
Leigh Day
Choosing a lawyer to help you with a medical negligence claim can come at a worrying and stressful time. We are here to help reassure you that you are speaking to a team of specialist and skilled team of experts.
Leigh Day is a claimant-only law firm known for our commitment to patient safety. Our medical negligence team helps those who have been injured as a result of substandard care by medical professionals. This can include claims arising from birth injuries, cerebral palsy, stillbirth and wrongful birth.
Many of our lawyers have medical backgrounds and have been instrumental in the development of the law in medical negligence cases and in achieving some of the highest-value settlements for our clients.
We are recognised as specialists in medical negligence and ranked tier 1 by the two foremost legal directories, Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.
Emmalene Bushnell has been a Partner since April 2015. She specialises in clinical negligence work, acting exclusively for claimants for the last 19 years. Her expertise lies in complex medical and serious injury cases. Legal 500 ranks her as a leading individual for “claims involving cerebral palsy and brain injury”. She is very approachable and deals with her clients sensitively.
“Leigh Day have proven to us that they are not just a law firm, they are a law firm that cares about making a difference. They support us, and other parents like us, in gaining answers and justice.” - client of Emmalene.
Emmalene holds Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel membership and APIL Senior Litigator membership. She is joint Co-ordinator of APIL’s Clinical Negligence Special Interest Group and is a member of the Forum of Complex Injury Solicitors (FOCIS).
Emmalene Bushnell, Partner
020 7650 1262
Bolt Burdon Kemp
When a child experiences a brain injury, the entire family is affected. Our goal at BBK is to address the needs not only of the injured child but also of their siblings and parents, to create as fulfilling and as normal a family life as possible.
Our Early Support Service will support you practically and emotionally right from the start while you focus on your family. And throughout your journey, your dedicated legal team will take the time to understand your family’s needs, offering practical advice and support on all aspects of your child’s healthcare, education, and financial security.
From our London base, we visit you at home or in hospital, anywhere in the country. As our specialist team acts exclusively for brain-injured children, you have the peace of mind of knowing that you have the most knowledgeable and compassionate lawyers on your side, striving to achieve the best possible future for your child and your family.
Our personal injury and clinical negligence work is accredited by independent guides to the legal profession - Legal 500, and Chambers and Partners - reflecting our commitment to providing top-quality services.
Our child brain injury team, led by “the best birth brain injury solicitor in the country”, is described as “first-class” and “full of talented, committed and experienced individuals who put 110% into every case” in the Legal 500 2024 – Independent guide to recommended law firms.
We are recommended for our dedication to “progressing complex and serious injury claims swiftly and tenaciously whilst providing the highest levels of client care” in the Chambers & Partners – Guide to the world’s best lawyers 2024.
They also said: "They're always on top of the law and really care about clients. They really know their areas and experts. They know their clients too."
Bolt Burdon Kemp is also ranked as one of The Times Best Law Firms 2024 for personal injury and clinical negligence law in England and Wales.
Caroline Klage is a Partner and head of the Brain Injury Division. She is also an IPSEA-qualified Special Education Needs advisor. Caroline is accredited by the Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel and is individually recognised in Chambers and Partners 2020 where it states she is “widely recognised for the depth of her experience in brain and birth injury claims” and in the Legal 500 2024 where she is described as “the best birth brain injury solicitor in the country. I have never come across another solicitor so hardworking, passionate, knowledgeable, and caring”.
Claudia Hillemand, Partner and Head of our Child Brain Injury team is a member of the AVMA specialist clinical negligence panel, which ensures that patients and their families have access to practitioners who are committed to providing specialist clinical negligence services which focus on the client’s needs.
26 Newbury Street, London, EC1A 7HU
Caroline Klage
[email protected]
020 7288 4824
07894 397858
CL Medilaw
We work with families to provide support, answers and the compensation you deserve. We are a different type of law firm, committed to putting you first and fighting your corner at every stage.
You and your family will need support with the challenges and pressures that living with a brain injury can bring. We are dedicated to “changing lives” so much so that we have included it in our name - it’s what the ‘CL’ stands for in CL Medilaw.
Our aim is to make legal matters as straight forward as possible with the early provision of support. Rehabilitation, care, better accommodation, specialist aids and equipment, as well as regular therapy and treatment are some of ways a successful claim can change your family’s life in the future.
As well as compensation we can advise you on educational needs, the court of protection and act as a professional deputy.
We act for clients all over England and Wales and no matter where you live, our specialist brain injury solicitors can travel to you.
Whether you have never sought legal advice before, or need a second opinion like Ryan where other solicitors have been unable to help, contact us. If you have a claim, we will prove it for you.
“The team at CL Medilaw have always been there to answer my questions and give support. Their relationship with my daughter is brilliant and because of the work they’ve done we can now look forward to her future making sure she has support to achieve her dreams.”
AvMA, APIL and Law Society accredited.
Laura Cook
0345 2410 154
[email protected]
www.clmedilaw.co.uk
Irwin Mitchell
As the largest dedicated medical negligence law firm across England and Wales our specialist team has decades of experience in cases involving complications during pregnancy and childbirth including birth injury. Through our work, we understand that if your child lives with a disability or has suffered from a serious injury or illness, the emotional and physical impact can be life changing.
We’re here to help you and can offer guidance during this difficult time.
We've supported families over many years, and we understand how concerned you may be about the level of care and support your child will have or is currently receiving. We believe all families should have access to the right legal and financial support to ensure their individual child's needs are addressed - we can offer help and advice every step of the way.
Our specialist lawyers will guide you through your legal options which may include making a claim and putting you in touch with healthcare and rehabilitation specialists. Our solicitors can also advise you and your family if you’re going through a complaint or the NHS Early Notification Scheme in England or the Putting Thing’s Right complaint process in Wales.
Specialist areas we can help with include:
- Medical negligence, including birth trauma and birth injury
- Education and healthcare plans
- Employment law
- Deputyships and Trusts
- Wills and estate planning, for example naming guardians in your Will
- Family law
- Welfare benefits guidance and advice
- Future planning including financial assessments.
Find out more about how we’ve helped our client, Zach: Zach's Story | Irwin Mitchell
Irwin Mitchell is recognised as a top-tier firm in the independent legal directories, Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 with leading individuals named across our offices. We’re also longstanding panel members of AvMA (Action against Medical Accidents) and we have several established charity relationships and support many campaigns focused on patient and maternity safety.
You can contact us at any time for a free informal chat about your situation or any concerns you may have about treatment and care you or your family have received.
Fieldfisher
At Fieldfisher, we are passionate about providing the best service and support to every family we work with.
The medical negligence team is expert in running high-value birth and brain injury cases, achieving maximum settlement to fund rehabilitation, care, therapies and education for the rest of a child’s life.
Our clients and their families always come first and we guide them through every step of the legal process with empathy and respect.
Our work is about rebuilding lives and ensuring children receive the care and support to live their best possible lives. We work towards early admissions of liability to secure interim payments to put in place the right support as quickly as possible.
We offer a one-stop service with our added experience in SEN and Court of Protection matters. We regularly take on cases other firms have turned down because of their value and complexity. We are prepared to fight ground-breaking cases.
Fieldfisher is widely known as a stand-out practice and we are recognised as top tier in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 in medical negligence, and are panel members of AvMA and APIL.
We also pride ourselves on giving back and over the past year we have thoroughly enjoyed our time supporting Cerebra in various fundraising events, including teaming up with our client Harry and his brother, Tommy in the epic Superheroes Tri at Dorney lake.
"Fieldfisher has been exceptional from start to finish… they're in a league of their own. I truly feel my son has had the best legal team around him throughout this process. I'm so thankful to have found them... [The team] involved in the case have been top quality, the best of the best, and conducted themselves honourably, respectably and fairly. Alongside their professionalism, they have also been personable, sensitive, and enjoyable to interact with during the worst and most tragic circumstances of our lives. They have my eternal gratitude for securing some justice for my son.' – Harry's mother
If you would like to get in touch, please contact Louise Astill, Caron Heyes or Iona Meeres-Young at:
- Louise Astill | [email protected] | 0330 460 6147
- Caron Heyes | [email protected] | 0330 460 6743
- Iona Meeres-Young | [email protected] | 0330 460 6769
Or visit our website at: Child Brain Injury Medical Negligence Claims | No Win No Fee Solicitors | Fieldfisher.
While Cerebra cannot make recommendations, and is not responsible for the work of these firms, the firms listed are supporters of Cerebra insofar as they have shown an understanding of our ethos and have been financially generous to the charity in donating to us to support our work.
