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Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP
The Cottons Centre 5th Floor
South-West Hay's Lane
SE1 2QG
England

Living Wage

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 > Clinical negligence: claimant

(Hall of Fame)

Jenny Kennedy Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Simply brilliant‘ child brain injury specialist Jackie Spinks leads the clinical negligence team at Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP. The team focuses on catastrophic injury work, predominantly taking on ‘incredibly challenging cases’. A number of the team members are medically qualified, including former psychiatric nurse Jenny Kennedy; James Piers, a qualified medical doctor and barrister who joined the team in March 2023; and Jock Mackenzie, who is recommended for his ‘thoughtful and imaginative approach’, and has a particular interest in neurological, brain and spinal cord injury cases. The team has notable expertise in cases involving foreign nationals who have been treated in UK private hospitals. Ali Malsher has particular expertise regarding sepsis cases.

London > Insurance > Personal injury: claimant

(Hall of Fame)

Jenny KennedyAnthony Gold Solicitors LLP

The ‘supremely knowledgeableJackie Spinks has taken over leadership of the personal injury team at Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP; a specialist in traumatic brain injury claims with a particular focus on child brain injury, Spinks is ‘meticulous in the preparation of her cases’. ‘Legendary practitionerJenny Kennedy provides expertise in complex brain, spinal and amputation injury claims to her cases, which are often cross-jurisdictional in nature, involving British nationals injured abroad or foreign national clients injured in the UK. Ian Peters similarly specialises in such international cases, along with acting for those who have suffered multiple trauma injuries. The team is also experienced in psychiatric injury cases, and those involving stress at work – the latter being a particular area of expertise for the firm’s managing partner David Marshall. Complex orthopaedic injuries are an area of strength for ‘steely litigator’ Sana BibiSamuel David was promoted to partner in May 2022. Adam Dyl is also recommended.