Vanessa Wand > Boyes Turner > Reading, England > Lawyer Profile

Boyes Turner
ABBOTS HOUSE
ABBEY STREET
READING
RG1 3BD
England
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Position

As a senior associate-solicitor in Boyes Turner’s outstanding medical negligence team, Vanessa Wand has secured millions of pounds of compensation for her clients.

Vanessa deals exclusively with complex, high value medical negligence claims.  She has a specialist interest in obstetric and birth-related injuries to both mother and baby, which include cerebral palsy and severe neonatal injury, maternal death, complex stillbirth with psychiatric maternal injury, perinatal tears and cloacal injury, alongside her broad-based expertise with cases involving amputation and other life threatening, fatal and permanently disabling conditions.

Working both independently and as an invaluable support to the partners in the group, Vanessa is an expert in quantifying claims involving cerebral palsy and other types of neonatal, severe, neurological injuries, consistently enabling her clients to receive the highest possible compensation awards.

Memberships

Vanessa is a member of Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) and the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant

(Leading associates)

Vanessa WandBoyes Turner

Regarded as a tour-de-force in the realm of critical brain injuries, encompassing child brain injuries and cerebral palsy claims, the ‘extremely personable, friendly, caring and professional’ team at Boyes Turner is notably experienced in high value, legally complex maximum severity cases. Susan Brown heads up the group with an established reputation in child brain injury arising from birth asphyxia and trauma. Richard Money-Kyrle‘s caseload is comprised of cerebral palsy, neonatal brain injuries and birth hypoxia-related ASD/ADHD, while Julie Marsh is an experienced practitioner across cauda equina syndrome (CES) and spinal cord injury (SCI) mandates. Obstetric and birth injury specialist Vanessa Wand has impressed clients due to ‘her attention to detail, empathy and the personal touch that is apparent’.