Bernadette McGhie > Russell-Cooke LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Bernadette McGhie
Work Department
Personal injury and clinical negligence team.
Position
Bernadette is a consultant in the personal injury and clinical negligence team and heads the brain injury team.
Bernadette has a varied caseload of wholly clinical negligence cases but her main area of expertise is in brain injuries including CP cases, meningitis and encephalitis as well as maternal injury in pregnancy. Bernadette’s nursing background greatly informs her legal practice and helps her to see both sides of any dispute. She is also committed to improving maternity safety working alongside charities such as Baby Lifeline.
As part of Bernadette’s everyday practice she is used to dealing with both lay clients and professionals such as clinicians and lawyers at all levels. Bernadette takes a collaborative approach to her work when dealing with opponents which leads to a more constructive working relationship and mutual respect.
Career
Before joining Russell-Cooke in October 2020 Bernadette previously was an Executive Director in the clinical negligence team of Enable Law (part of the Foot Anstey group) which she joined in May 2017 following transfer of the clinical negligence team from Michelmores where she had been a partner since 2010.
Memberships
- AvMA clinical negligence specialist panel member
- Member of Baby Lifeline’s multi-professional advisory panel, MPAP
- Governor of Mary Hare school for the deaf and former trustee of the Meningitis Trust (Meningitis Now)
- CEDR accredited mediator 2020
Education
- BA Hons History & Anthropology – Oxford Brookes University
- PG Diploma in Law – Oxford Brookes University
- PG Diploma in Legal Practice – Oxford Institute of Legal Practice
- Qualified general and paediatric nurse
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
Noted for its ‘great reputation for delivering results’, the clinical negligence practice at Russell-Cooke LLP is co-led by Janice Gardner, a ‘seasoned operator’ in the team’s cognitive, spinal and infection injury litigation, along with complex birth injuries, and Dominic Fairclough, a key operator in the department’s inquest cases. Bernadette McGhie is attributed with ‘great commitment and effective judgment’, and is a key operator in the team’s brain injury, cerebral palsy, and maternal injury cases. The team is active in a number of clinical negligence mandates, ranging from major birth injuries resultant from asphyxiation, catastrophic surgical errors and cognitive injuries, misdiagnosis and delayed treatment as well as psychiatric and self-harm injury claims. Ruth Roberts is a notable adviser in inquests and fatal surgical injury disputes.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Court of protection
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Immigration
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Employment > Immigration: human rights
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Social housing: tenant
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Real estate > Planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Private client > Agriculture and estates