Kings Chambers

Lois Norris is a member of the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence groups.

Lois has a nationwide serious injury practice. She is currently instructed in brain injury, spinal injury and amputation cases, both as a junior alone and with the benefit of leading counsel.

Lois has particular expertise in drafting schedules and founded Schedule School, a free resource designed to take practitioners through catastrophic injury schedules. She regularly provides schedule workshops.

In her clinical negligence practice, she handles a variety of cases, including cases involving amputation, birth injury cases and vision loss.

To complement her personal injury and clinical negligence practice, Lois is regularly instructed in inquests. Notably:

• Lois represented the partner of the late Police Sergeant Ratana, after a man detained by the Metropolitan Police concealed a firearm during a stop and search on the street, and later discharged it in custody, fatally wounding PS Ratana.
• Lois represented the family of Dr Rachel Gibson, who died following cardiac arrest caused by administration of excessive local anaesthetic (Ropivacaine) during surgery at a private hospital. A prevention of future deaths report was issued to the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

In addition, Lois has represented families in cases relating to a failure to scan (resulting in a finding of neglect), a failure to change a catheter (resulting in a finding of neglect) and a failure to provide lifesaving surgery. Lois has represented several families in cases touching upon the deaths of individuals with learning disabilities.

Lois also represents individual consultants and doctors alongside local authorities.

In personal injury inquests, Lois has expertise with motor vehicle deaths and deaths caused by the state of the highway (including cases involving mud and standing water).

In line with her inquest practice, Lois is regularly instructed in fatal claims and has developed a particular expertise in drafting schedules in cases where the Deceased was a single parent and/or did not live with their partner, and the conventional fatal calculations do not apply.

Lois prides herself on her client-centric approach and attention to detail.