1 Crown Office Row

Cara Guthrie specialises in clinical negligence, and has done so since she started in practice 20 years ago. She also acts in personal injury cases, inquests and lawyers’ negligence cases.

Her clinical negligence practice straddles a wide range of medical issues, including complex and serious cerebral palsy, brain injury and spinal injury cases. She is instructed both on behalf of claimants and the full range of healthcare defendants. Cara has undoubted expertise in quantum and is a formidable negotiator.

She represents both families and hospital trusts in inquests, often involving deaths in hospital. She has acted in cases of suicide, neglect and unlawful killing as well as natural causes.

She also undertakes personal injury cases, usually instructed on behalf of brain injured claimants.

Call: 2000

• Ogden Working Party; PIBA; PNBA