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Capsticks LLP Offices
Wellington House
68 Wimbledon Hill Road
LONDON
SW19 7PA
England
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Catherine Bennett
Work Department
Clinical Law.
Position
Experience
Catherine has over 12 years’ experience of handling complex, sensitive and high value claims for Defendants. She is a Nominated Partner for NHS Resolution and manages a team of lawyers undertaking a broad range of case work of differing value and complexity. She also manages Capsticks’ Claims Handling Service which provides an innovative, outsourced service for the management of healthcare organisations’ claims.
Expertise
Catherine is a recognised expert in defending the most challenging claims, including those concerning alleged breaches of human rights. Although very experienced in traditional court based litigation, Catherine has used mediation successfully on behalf of defendants on numerous occasions.
Catherine is well known for leading the Capsticks’ claims handling service. She has developed an innovative in-house administrative service for Trusts.
Training is one of Catherine’s passions and she has lectured extensively on medico-legal topics and trends in litigation at board level.
Education
M.A. (Cantab), 1997
M.A. Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College, London, 2006
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
(Leading partners)Fielding a ‘bright, communicative’ team noted for its‘excellent commercial awareness’, Capsticks LLP acts for a range of high-profile defendants. Co-chaired by Catherine Bennett and Peter Marquand, the practice excels in litigation arising from high-value natal, cognitive and spinal injury claims. The firm is home to one of the most active specialist healthcare inquest teams, an area in which Philip Hatherall
is a key name to note. Cassius Box – highlighted for his ‘experience, intelligence’ – shines in cognitive and spinal injury claims, while Majid Hassan is regularly seen handling maternal, psychiatric and emergency medicine disputes. Kate Cornelius advises on sensitive injury claims, including catastrophic cognitive injury in children.