Case Studies
£9,000 Defendants: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The Facts The Claimant was admitted to hospital to give birth to her first child. Complications arose during delivery. She required...
£2,000 Defendant: Basildon & Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Basildon Hospital) The Facts The claimant was pregnant with her first child. Following delivery, it was noticed that she had...
£15,000 Defendant: GP The Facts A 14 year old boy woke up with excruciating lower abdominal pain. His parents took the right action and immediately took their son to their General Practitioner....
£950,000 Defendant: Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust The Facts The client was a 35 year old man who suffered sudden pain in his shoulder after a fall out...
Defendants – Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust Liability/responsibility admitted for the injury – with damages to be assessed when the future medical condition can be fully assessed. The client, an...
Defendants – Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust Background This claim involved a case against the Claimant’s employer and against the hospital that dealt with his follow up care. The Claimant...
£390,000 Defendants – Leicester Hospitals NHS Trust The Facts The client was a 40 year old man who had ulcerative colitis. He needed an ileal pouch formed after a colectomy....
Defendants – Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich Facts Client was referred to the hospital by her GP for an opinion on an enlarged lymph node on her neck. She was admitted...
Judgement entered for the client. Damages to be assessed when the child is old enough for a prognosis to be made Defendants: St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust The Facts The...
£3,000 The Facts Our client underwent a routine surgical procedure under general anaesthetic, during which time he was sedated. The procedure went well and he was discharged from hospital a...
£2,500 The Facts Our client fell awkwardly on her hand when playing sports. She attended her GP who referred her to hospital for x-rays to be undertaken to rule out...
£37,500 Defendants – Tower Hamlets Borough Council The Facts Some years before these events, when the young man was 17 years old, a lesion was discovered in his brain stem....
£50,000 The Facts The Claimant, a man of 60 years old, had surgery to remove a neuroma on his greater auricular nerve. Following surgery, the lump returned and it was...
£70,000 Defendants: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust The Facts The claimant, a 50 year old woman, had successfully undergone a right shoulder replacement in 2003. She regained full pain free...
£30,000 The Facts The client was a 73 year old woman who was advised to have a total knee replacement. After her surgery, she was in a great deal of...
£100,000 The Facts The client was an 83 year old lady who had been diagnosed with cataracts. She was on a waiting list to have the cataracts extracted. She started...
£460,000 Facts The claimant, a woman of 83 years old, was admitted to hospital suffering from back pain. Whilst she was on the ward she started to suffer sudden excruciating...
£500,000 Facts The Claimant, a man of 45 years old who had drunk some alcohol, was involved in a road traffic accident when he was hit by a bus and...
£11,500 The Facts The client was a child born in October 2005. In the course of his birth, delivery was attempted by firstly a ventouse cap and then forceps....
£60,000 Defendants: West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust Facts The claimant, a man of 23 years old, had an injury playing football. He fell and hurt his wrist and went to...
£500,000 Defendants: Northwick Park Hospital NHS Trust The Facts The client was a 65 year old man who had a blow to his abdomen and suffered severe pain as a...
£35,000 Defendants: Whipps Cross University Hospitals NHS Trust The Facts An 81 year old man was admitted to hospital and diagnosed with heart block. He was given a pacemaker. Approximately...
£12,000 The Facts A young man injured his left arm whilst playing rugby. He then noticed his elbow was becoming sensitive to knocks. He was referred to an orthopaedic surgeon...
£40,000 The Facts The client was a 24 year old woman who was six months pregnant when she went in to hospital with abdominal pains. The consultant she saw...
£42,500 Facts A 12 year old girl fell and injured her right, dominant, wrist. After a couple of days, it was very painful and had begun to swell. She attended...
£390,000 The Facts The client was a 40 year old man who had ulcerative colitis. He needed an ileal pouch formed after a colectomy. Unfortunately during surgery he suffered irreversible...
£375,000 Defendants: East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust The Facts A 30 year old lady underwent an elective laparoscopic or keyhole sterilisation. The operation had to be converted to an...
£10,000 The Facts Our client attended hospital to have his newly fitted gastric band “inflated” – i.e. filled by injection of saline solution. Our client stated that his treating doctor...
£15,000 The Facts The client was admitted to hospital for a hernia repair, which started as a laparoscopic or keyhole procedure, but was converted to an open procedure because of...
£25,000 The Facts Mary, a 45 year old woman was admitted to hospital because of vomiting. She was put on a drip and bedrest. After her admission, she became disorientated...
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