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Stewarts Law LLP Offices

Stewarts Law LLP
5 NEW STREET SQUARE
LONDON
EC4A 3BF
England
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Amy Heath

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Work Department

Clinical Negligence

Position

Partner

Amy has over 10 years’ experience acting for individuals who have sustained catastrophic, life changing injuries as a result of clinical negligence.

Amy acts in claims where delayed diagnosis, surgical and post-operative mismanagement and medical mismanagement have caused life changing injuries.

Amy has an expertise in claims involving spinal cord injuries and with a particular interest in claims that involve the delayed diagnosis of spinal infection and injuries resulting from spinal surgery. Amy’s practice also involves cases where injuries have resulted from the mismanagement and delayed diagnosis of sepsis and meningitis.

Career

Amy joined Stewarts in 2009 having started her career in the clinical negligence department of a well respected London firm. She was made partner at Stewarts in 2021.

Memberships

Amy holds specialist clinical negligence accreditation with the Law Society and is a member of APIL.

Personal

When not running around after her two young sons, Amy enjoys live music, cooking and baking. She also has a new found interest in interior design and architecture and, in particular, modernist and Scandinavian design.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant

(Next Generation Partners)

Amy Heath – Stewarts Law LLP

Stewarts Law LLP‘s clinical negligence practice fields an ‘outstanding’ team, primarily active in complex, high-value disputes covering a spectrum of serious instances of medical negligence. This includes cognitive injuries, such as strokes, aneurysms and hypoxia, diabetic issues, rare and novel diseases, and in particular, major spinal injuries, including spinal cord infection and surgery cases. The practice is chaired by Anita Jewitt, who leads the team across the London and Leeds offices. Jewitt is constituted by experienced practitioners such as Robert Dransfield, a frequent litigator in spinal and cognitive injury cases, especially those dealing with cauda equina. Along with surgical errors, Hugh Johnson handles matters concerning injuries caused by negligence in mental health facilities. The ‘rigorous and talented’ Amy Heath frequently advises on matters regarding delayed diagnosis of serious conditions such as meningitis and sepsis, surgical and post-surgical injuries, as well as spinal infection claims. Nick Knowles  is a key port of call for claims involving children and disabled parties. Alison Goldney and Alexandra Bennett are noted for their experience settling birth injury, and cognitive injury claims.

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