Why the Serious Injury Team at No5 Barristers’ Chambers prides itself on strength in depth

Strength in DEPTH

The Serious Injury Team at No5 Barristers’ Chambers prides itself on its strength in depth, with experienced counsel at all levels offering an exceptional understanding of complex clinical, causation and quantum issues.

We are regularly instructed in cases involving issues around capacity, provisional damages, PPOs and statutory funding. Members work nationally and internationally, with leading provincial and London solicitors and national defendant insurer firms.

Most importantly, we pride ourselves on being accessible and responsive, working closely with those who instruct us to provide a proactive and strategic approach in order to secure outstanding results. Members are noted for their empathy and approachability. We are keenly aware of the need to see a claimant as an individual, not just as another ‘case’ and of the concept of facilitation i.e. by care and support, mobility aids and equipment, to support aspiration and maximise quality of life.

BRAIN INJURIES

Our experience includes accidents at work and RTAs, from significant structural brain damage to more subtle brain injuries and post-concussional syndrome, cases of hypoxic brain injury, brain haemorrhage and delay in diagnosis of brain tumours.

Case examples include:

Claim involving a moderate brain injury sustained by a young man in a road traffic collision. Issues involved failure to wear a seatbelt, but principally mental capacity and the long-term projections for case management and care. Case settled in seven figures shortly after a joint settlement meeting.

Delay in diagnosis of mastoiditis leading to brain empyema causing brain damage and uncontrollable generalised epilepsy. Liability initially in dispute. Settled following a roundtable settlement conference for £6.5m.

Wrongful birth claim arising out of negligent failure to diagnose microcephaly (a genetic brain malformation) during antenatal scanning.

Settled at roundtable conference for £6m.

SPINAL INJURIES

In addition to spinal injuries arising from trauma, our work includes clinical/ surgical mismanagement and spinal cord injury, including cauda equina, hip replacement, spinal and epidural anaesthesia and surgery.

We are regularly instructed in cases involving issues around capacity, provisional damages, PPOs and statutory funding..

Case examples include:

Representing a T5 ASIA B spinally injured

Claimant where, due to her age and urgent accommodation needs, the RCJ has agreed to expedite the case management of it, akin to a mesothelioma claim, and to proceed to £1 million+ interim payment application within weeks of the issue of proceedings.

Working with specialist instructing solicitors to coordinate the instruction of a raft of Part 35 experts in the case of young man, aged only just 20 years at the date of his scaffolding accident, who unfortunately suffered a life changing T6 ASIA A spinal injury as a result.

He is sadly partially dependent in all activities of daily living, requires extensive care and therapeutic input and is at ongoing risk of autonomic dysreflexia and syringomyelia with, realistically, no residual earning capacity.

Contact the Serious Injury clerking team: Tel: 0845 241 7006 | Email: MT@no5.com