Lara Bennett > Slater and Gordon > Cardiff, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Slater and Gordon Offices
HAYWOOD HOUSE NORTH
DUMFRIES PLACE
CARDIFF
CF10 3GA
United Kingdom
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Lara Bennett
Work Department
Clinical Negligence
Position
Senior associate, Lara Bennett is based in the firm’s Cardiff office where she takes on a supportive and supervisory role with team members, and plays a significant part in building strong relationships for business development.
Lara advises clients on a wide range of complex clinical negligence claims, including birth injuries, anaesthetic injury, nerve damage, oncology and gynaecology. She also handles claims involving delay or failure to correctly diagnose, hospital and GP negligence claims, and a number of orthopaedic claims including hip and knee replacement surgery.
Renowned for her attention to detail and empathy, Lara is meticulous in ensuring the very best results for her clients. She has handled a number of class actions, delivering excellent results and has a particular interest in birth injury claims, as well as fatal accident and amputation claims.
The past year has seen Lara complete her application for Law Society accreditation and continue to play a major role in undertaking settlement meetings with NHS Resolution to assist in bringing claims to a timely settlement.
Memberships
Lara is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx).
She is also a member of APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) and AvMA (Action Against Medical Accidents).
Lawyer Rankings
Wales > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
The ‘highly committed’ team at Slater and Gordon ‘works well together’ to ensure that clients are ‘extremely well-served’ across a range of high-value and complex cases, where they also benefit from access to complementary services including Court of Protection and trusts services, if necessary. Team head Yvonne Agnew is ‘one of the foremost UK experts in birth injury cases’, and as well as her continued involvement in high-profile cases is also a vital mentor for more junior practitioners within the group. Julia Reynolds is a ‘pleasure to deal with’, overseeing the work handled by the catastrophic clinical negligence team across Wales, with herself having particular expertise representing clients in obstetric cases and those involving paediatric brain damage. At a senior associate level, Lara Bennett is a ‘dedicated and skilful claimant lawyer’, while Kelly Lloyd-Davies ‘has a solid grasp of the issues in each case’, including on birth injury as well as delayed or missed diagnosis claims.