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Suzanne White

020 7650 1200 swhite@leighday.co.uk

Work Department

Medical Negligence

Position

Suzanne White is head of the clinical negligence team and has specialised in this area of law since qualifying in 1999 after training with the firm. 

She is a patients’ campaigner, with a particular interest in birth injury, and injuries to mothers during childbirth. She also specialises in orthopaedics, brain injury, misdiagnosis and fatal cases, and cases involving radiological errors, but also advising on a full range of clinical negligence cases.

Suzanne was also the inquest partner at Leigh Day representing families at inquests where loved ones have died as a result of negligent medical care. 

Career

She brings to her experience a medical background, as she qualified as a radiographer, she quickly grasps the medical issues in the cases she deals with. Suzanne trained at Leigh Day and made partner in 2010. Suzanne has been head of the clinical negligence department since 1st April 2018.

Memberships

Suzanne is on the APIL executive committee, is a trustee for the Patients’ Association and was a member of the Civil Justice Council’s working group for fixed costs. She is a member of the INQUEST lawyers group and on the MASIC council.