Stewarts Law LLP

Medical Negligence

Senior Associate

Gabrielle specialises in acting for individuals with spinal cord conditions including cauda equina syndrome, and brain injuries, arising out of medical negligence.

Gabrielle has specialised in representing claimants in medical negligence cases for 20 years. She has significant experience of acting in High Court litigation for clients with catastrophic injuries arising out of medical treatment, including success at trial in a cauda equina case.

She has acted on claims involving delayed diagnosis of spinal cord compression causing tetraplegia; brain and spinal injury arising from failure surrounding post-operative treatment; missed diagnosis of spinal infection leading to paraplegia; mismanagement during surgical procedures; late diagnosis of spinal tumour; failure to obtain proper consent causing brain injury; failure to diagnose symptoms of cauda equina syndrome; and fatal accidents. A number of her cases have involved multiple defendants.

Experience

• Achieved a seven- figure settlement in a fatal claim concerning failures leading to bowel perforation and sepsis.
• Achieved a seven-figure settlement for a client who sustained paraplegia following spinal surgery in which spinal cord monitoring had not been used.
• Obtained seven-figure settlement with annual lifetime payments, in a claim concerning surgery, alleged not to be required, during which spinal injuries were sustained.
• Obtained seven-figure settlement with annual lifetime payments in a claim concerning delayed diagnosis of spinal tumour.
• Trial in a cauda equina case in which our client was successful in establishing that her GP breached his duty of care and failed to refer her to hospital.

Gabrielle joined Stewarts in 2010 from Irwin Mitchell. She became an associate at Stewarts in 2012 and a senior associate in 2015.

Gabrielle has achieved Law Society Clinical Negligence Accreditation and she is Accredited as a Litigator by APIL. She is a member of the Leeds and District Medico-Legal Society.

Gabrielle enjoys theatre and music and has stage managed theatre productions, and has also directed. She is a former Trustee of Leeds Mencap.