Kingsley Napley LLP

Medical Negligence & Personal Injury

James is the head of our Medical Negligence and Personal Injury practice and joined the firm in 2023 from Hodge, Jones & Allen. He has undertaken medical negligence and personal injury cases for over 30 years.

Throughout his career James has dealt with a very wide range of cases concerning all types of negligence claims – delayed diagnosis cases, birth injuries, anaesthetic injuries, surgical errors,  GP and hospital negligence, all types of orthopaedic claims, including complex hip and knee replacement surgery claims and  all types of cancer cases.

He has pursued cases against NHS and private hospitals, General Practitioners and many disciplines of private treatment providers. He is also very experienced in dealing with insurance companies and their appointed legal teams in personal injury claims.

James joined Hodge Jones & Allen from Slater & Gordon Lawyers where he was head of their London clinical negligence team and oversaw the Ian Paterson and De Puy ASR group actions. Prior to this he was an equity partner at Christian Khan where he acted for many injured and bereaved in the Potters Bar and Ladbroke Grove train crashes.

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