FIRST FLOOR, ST PHILIPS POINT, 47 CANNON STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B2 5EF, ENGLAND
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- Work 0121 632 6100
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Tony Yeaman
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- Work +44 121 200 8108
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Work Department
Healthcare.
Position
Tony is the national head of healthcare for Weightmans and heads their Birmingham NHSLA clinical negligence team. He has extensive experience in acting for the NHS, having specialised in this area since 1988 and having spent six years in-house as one of a team of regional legal advisers. He has managed multi-party group litigation, including the HIV haemophiliac litigation and has advised the NHS on a number of high-profile claims and inquiries. Tony now specialises in managing high-value and complex clinical negligence claims, whilst providing advice on complex healthcare issues such as treatment decisions and risk management. He also sits on the firm’s strategy board. Reported cases include Sparks v Royal Hospitals NHS Trust (1998); Eletherios Theodorou v Camden & Islington Health Authority (1997); Margaret lakey v Merton Sutton & Wandsworth Health Authority (1999); Bordin and Anor v St Mary’s NHS Trust (2000) and Ashley v Burton Hospitals NHS Trust (2006).
Career
Bernard Chill and Axtell, Southampton; trained British Gas Plc; qualified 1988; solicitor Brown Hovelt & Co; assistant regional solicitor Wessex Regional Health Authority; partner Beachcroft Stanleys/Beachcroft Wansbroughs; partner Weightmans 2001. Contributor to various journals including ‘Personal Injury Newsletter’, ‘Clinical Risk’, ‘Health Service Journal’ and client and in-house publications.
Languages
Conversational Italian.
Member
Law Society; Birmingham Medico Legal Society; FOIL; non-executive director West Midlands Ambulance Service, NHS Trust.
Education
St Mary’s College, Southampton; Middlesex University (1985); College of Law, Guildford; Bournemouth University (MBA).
Leisure
Golf, walking.
Practice Areas
Healthcare
