Weightmans LLP

Health Care

Partner - Healthcare Newcastle & Leeds

Angela is a Partner in the health sector team. She has over 25 years of experience in dealing with defendant and claimant clinical negligence, and professional negligence claims.

Angela has a wide and varied experience of all types of clinical negligence claims but with particular and specialist knowledge of high value birth injury and brain damage claims.

Prior to joining Weightmans, she worked as a claimant lawyer for nearly 15 years where she led the Newcastle upon Tyne clinical negligence team of a large national law firm.

'Angela Kirtley is one of the best Defendant clinical negligence lawyers in the market. She combines a deep human understanding of the issues in her cases with a down to earth grasp of reality and commercial pragmatism.'

Legal 500 2024

She acted in the TH v South Tees NHS Foundation Trust case which involved a birth injury where the claimant was awarded a significant annual award for care and case management of nearly £500,000 per annum.

More recently she has acted in a claim where there was a failure to identify a brain tumour in a young child resulting in a multi-million pounds settlement, including significant annual payments for care and case management.

She is a Trustee of Heel and Toe charity which provides free Conductive Therapy to children with Cerebral Palsy.

She is a past President of the North of England Medico Legal Society.

Angela was recently appointed Regional Office Head of the Weightmans Newcastle office.