Weightmans LLP

Healthcare

Legal Director - Healthcare Birmingham & Cardiff

Maryam has over 20 years of experience in clinical negligence claims. She qualified in 2004 and worked in claimant clinical negligence until 2006. She joined Weightmans in 2010, became an Associate in May 2013, Principal Associate in May 2019 and Legal Director in May 2022.

Her caseload is wide ranging, defending and resolving all types of clinical negligence cases, including claims of the utmost severity (including birth and adult brain injury claims, spinal claims and other catastrophic high value injuries) involving complex causation issues. As well as dealing with the highest value cases, Maryam also deals with cases which involve novel or sensitive issues using mediation where appropriate. Her advice is pragmatic, robust and commercial and aimed at achieving early evaluation and resolution.  In addition to managing her own files Maryam is a nominated supervisor for the Healthcare team and uses the client’s Supervisory Capacity Approval (SCA) to approve internal advice to the client, providing a nationally consistent product and service and ensuring that files are managed to a high standard.

Maryam has a particular interest in patient safety and held the position of national Safety and Learning Lead for 5 years before stepping down from this role in 2025 to concentrate on her supervisory responsibilities.  Safety and Learning is embedded in the way that clinical negligence matters are handled within the team to ensure that learning is disseminated to member trusts with a view to learning from incidents and preventing future patient harm. Maryam is involved in facilitating training and organising events for both lawyers and clinicians to ensure that knowledge is shared to facilitate improvement.