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DAC Beachcroft LLP’s ‘responsive and commercial’ team is ‘a cut above the rest’. The ‘excellentDavid Weatherburn leads the practice, which has a substantial market share in both the public and private sectors. It handles a high volume of claims for the NHSLA, and recently acted in a novel case concerning the duty of care owed by a trust to its social workers. Clients include BUPA, Spire, the Medical Defence Union and The Priory Group.

Ward Hadaway’s five-partner team is led by Jeffrey Keeble. It recently acted for North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust in a claim regarding an emergency life-saving hysterectomy. Clients includes the NHSLA, and over 60 NHS bodies.

Samuel Phillips Law Firm predominantly acts at inquests on behalf of a local NHS Foundation Trust.

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