Stewarts Law LLP

Clinical Negligence

Partner and Head of Clinical Negligence Leeds.

Frank has achieved some of the department’s highest value damages settlements. Chambers UK says: “He remains a market-leading name handling a range of complex, high-value matters and is commended for his expertise in this area. He is widely endorsed by sources, who describe him as approachable and ‘the full package.'

Frank specialises in medical negligence claims relating to spinal cord injury and brain injury. He has particular expertise in medical negligence claims where foreign nationals have been injured in England.

Frank’s casework includes acting for amputees and meningitis patients. He advises claimants in regards to claims arising out of their treatment and subsequent care received.

Experience:

• Advising a Danish national on a claim against a private cosmetic operator arising from an extensive procedure in England, where failure to recognise and act on emergency complications led to severe lower limb injury.
• Advising a client who sustained a serious spinal cord injury arising out of spinal surgery for treatment of septic discitis and the subsequent care she received.
• Advising on behalf of a young man living under a Community Treatment Order, who sustained serious orthopaedic injuries and lower limb amputation arising out of the failure to review his mental state when he was evicted from sheltered accommodation and negligently transferred to an unsupervised homeless shelter.
• Advising an English child who sustained a severe brain injury whilst in Spain on a family holiday, arising from the failure to consistently ventilate him following a spontaneous seizure and causing severe brain injury.

Frank graduated in Law at Sheffield University and qualified as a solicitor 1993. He joined Stewarts as a partner in September 2006.

AvMA (Action against Medical Accidents) Panel Solicitor Law Society Clinical negligence accreditation scheme

Frank is married with two children. He enjoys mountain walking, often in Scotland, listening to 60s and 70s rock music, and spending time with his family.