Jasmine Armstrong > Weightmans LLP > Birmingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Weightmans LLP Offices
First Floor, St Philips Point
TEMPLE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B2 5AF
England
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Jasmine Armstrong
Position
Jasmine is manager of the Birmingham Healthcare team.
Since 2001, Jasmine has provided specialist advice managing clinical negligence claims for NHS Resolution. Her practice spans general healthcare advice dealing with inquests, best interests assessments for children and adults; CQC interventions; deprivation of liberty issues; data security and information governance issues for NHS Trusts and other healthcare providers.
Her good understanding of the clinical and resource pressures ensures her advice is pragmatic and robust.
She trains colleagues and clients, educating healthcare staff upon aspects of healthcare law including claims, inquests and the implications this has upon safety and learning drawing on her wealth of experience of clinical claims.
She leads on changing culture by using innovative dispute resolution techniques to resolve claims as early as possible.
Lawyer Rankings
West Midlands > Public sector > Health
(Next Generation Partners)Weightmans LLP, a firm that goes ‘above and beyond for clients’, undertakes work relating to public inquiries and strategic, regulatory and construction issues in the healthcare sector. Its client roster includes NHS providers, emergency services and local authorities. Mike Clifford possesses strength in handling corporate and commercial matters for healthcare organisations, while Jill Weston joined the team from Mills & Reeve LLP in October 2022, bringing with her experience in personal health budgets, for both adults and young children, as well as in relation to the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act. Adding further strength to the team is the ‘invaluable’ Jasmine Armstrong, whose broad experience encompasses clinical negligence, discrimination and inquests, among other areas. Other key practitioners include Deborah Bannister, Daniel Barchet (who joined the practice from Harrison Clark Rickerbys in December 2022), Sarah Jane Knight, Sarah Hopwood and Tony Yeaman.
West Midlands > Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
(Leading individuals)Weightmans LLP has a stellar reputation for its work in this area. The nimble team covers a broad variety of high-value and contentious cases. At the cornerstone of the practice, is defending numerous birth and brain injury cases for various NHS trusts. Its dedicated GP team continues to receive a high number of primary care claim instructions and it also has considerable strength in group claims. Names to note include Deborah Bannister and Tony Yeaman . Jasmine Armstrong has advised on many defendant clinical negligence actions for NHS Resolution. Sarah Hopwood advises national healthcare teams on cases where there is suspected exaggeration or fraud. Principal associate, Christian Lowden joined the team from Kennedys .
North > Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant
Following its merger with RadcliffesLeBrasseur LLP in June 2022, Weightmans entered the North East with a strong Newcastle-based partner-led team handling highly sensitive, complex and high-value claims, including catastrophic injuries, fatalities, brain injury, chronic pain and psychiatric injuries. Angela Kirtley, who has particular expertise in high value birth injuries, Robert Rushton, both joining from Ward Hadaway LLP in May 2022, Jasmine Armstrong and Paul Hughes now jointly head the team which is currently acting as the NHS Resolution legal panel. The group is involved in myriad inquiries and the infected blood investigation, as well as medical malpractice claims for insurers.