Nick Garrish > Shakespeare Martineau LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Shakespeare Martineau LLP
60 GRACECHURCH STREET
LONDON
EC3V 0HR
England

Work Department

Clinical Negligence (Lime Solicitors)

Position

Partner

Career

Nick qualified in 2008 and is a Medical Negligence Solicitor who was been with Mayo Wynne Baxter since January 2009. Nick is now part of the wider Lime Solicitors team following the merger in May 2023. Nick specialises in a broad spectrum of clinical negligence cases including cerebral palsy and catastrophic injury, using his considerable experience in providing value and substance to his work. He is an accredited member of the Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel.

Nick has been involved in clinical negligence since 1995 when he joined the Medical Defence Union as a claims handler, following which he spent 10 years at the NHS Litigation Authority, both in a claims handling and management capacity. Prior to joining Mayo Wynne Baxter in 2009, he worked for a private practice in London, undertaking claimant clinical negligence work.

At work, Nick’s range of experience provides a unique and beneficial insight into the management of claims both against the NHS and private practitioners. He is also a member of APIL.

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant

Complex and high value neonatal and birth injury claims, alongside amputation, spinal and brain injuries are the core specialisms of the ‘first rate’ clinical negligence team at Shakespeare Martineau LLP, all of whom moved across from  Mayo Wynne Baxter LLP in the spring of 2023. Praised as ‘knowledgeable, experienced and well-organised’, practice head Melanie Minter‘s caseload includes failed surgeries and child brain injury cases. Nick Garrish exclusively handles clinical negligence claimant work, from minor fractures to catastrophic injury cases. Gail Waller is also recommended.