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SE1 2QG
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Ms Jenny Kennedy

Work Department
Injury and medical claims.
Position
Jenny Kennedy is a Partner on Anthony Gold’s Injury and Medical Claims team. A complex brain, spinal and amputation expert, Jenny is well known for representing foreign national clients injured in the UK as well as British nationals injured abroad. She settled the first reported case involving indexation of periodical payments to a foreign jurisdiction and secured a verdict of unlawful killing before a UK Coroner for the family of a mother killed whilst on holiday In South America.
Described as “one of the most respected PI claimant lawyers in the country” her expertise includes dealing with all the associated elements of catastrophic injury litigation and managing the needs of clients with issues associated with significant head injury.
She has a medical background, having qualified as a psychiatric nurse, and her clinical negligence expertise includes a wide range of claims of complexities with a special interest in psychiatric and orthopaedic injury cases.
Career
Former psychiatric nurse (RMN); co-author of ‘PI Practice’ Buchan Kennedy & Woolf (Butterworths Lexis Nexis); co-author of ‘Kemp & Kemp: Personal Injury Law, Practice and Procedure’; co-author of ‘Litigating Psychiatric Injury Claims’ David Marshall, Jenny Kennedy and Rehana Azib (Bloomsbury Professional).
Memberships
Law Society Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Panels; on recommended list for Spinal Injuries Association and Headway.
Leisure
Playing piano, horseriding, long distance running.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
(Hall of Fame)The personal injury practice at Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP is headed up the ‘unbelievably bright and tenacious’ Jackie Spinks, who is particularly noted for advising claimants on severe cognitive injuries. The team fields professionals with ‘deep and long experience’ in personal injury, overseeing some of the most high-value disputes and settlements in areas requiring expertise in major trauma, working with both local and international clients in multijurisdictional cases. The team’s capabilities are augmented by David Marshall‘s expertise in cognitive and psychiatric injuries, while the ‘thorough’ Ian Peters is a key operator in the team for cross-border injury litigation, including polytrauma claims involving two or more injury types. Also litigating on behalf of international clients, Jenny Kennedy’
s workload includes sophisticated cognitive and spinal cord injury disputes. Sana Bibi is highlighted for her ‘great judgment’ in cases pertaining to traffic collisions, workplace accidents, orthopaedic injuries and those resulting in amputations, areas that are also in the domain of Amanda Hopkins‘ expertise. Samuel David and Adam Dyl are both ports of call for complex physical, psychiatric and polytraumatic injuries cases.
London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
(Hall of Fame)Noted for its ‘outstanding strength in depth’, the clinical negligence practice at Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP primarily litigates in catastrophic injury cases, including surgical errors in spinal and hip cases, neurosurgery, misdiagnosis and delayed treatment of cancer, as well as maternal and birth injuries resulting in hypoxia and cognitive injuries. Jackie Spinks leads the team, assisted by the ‘brilliant and hugely respected’ Jenny Kennedy, whose expertise covers disputes concerning cognitive, spinal and amputation injuries. Ali Malsher frequently advises on emergency medicine and surgical injury cases, while Jock Mackenzie typically handles disputes pertaining to sepsis, rare medical conditions and intensive care, along with cognitive conditions such as cerebral palsy and meningitis. James Piers is experienced in cases requiring expertise in fatal illnesses, complex surgical and medicinal errors, along with spinal cord injuries. Samuel David is a specialist in cases relating to delayed diagnosis of serious conditions and complex birth injuries.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Hall of Fame London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Personal injury: claimant London > Insurance
- Clinical negligence: claimant London > Insurance