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10-11 BEDFORD ROW
LONDON
WC1R 4BU
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Bella Webb
Work Department
Personal injury and professional discipline, clinical negligence.
Position
Bella specialises in all aspects of clinical negligence and personal injury law. She represents both Claimants and Defendants (through the medical defence unions) and has a practice spanning the county courts, high court and appeal courts. In the clinical negligence field, she has a particular interest in and reputation for delayed cancer diagnosis claims as well as cauda equina/spinal compression litigation, plastic surgery claims and birth defects. Her personal injury practise spans all areas, and includes catastrophic injuries, road traffic accidents, workplace and public liability claims, industrial/occupational disease, fatal accidents and CICA applications. Bella also undertakes medical regulatory work and represents practitioners and professional bodies in conduct and capability proceedings before the GMC, HCPC and NMC, in respect of which her early background in employment law has proved valuable.
Career
St Catherine’s College, Oxford (MA, Jurisprudence); Inns of Court School of Law (called to the Bar 2000 – Queen Mother’s scholar / Middle Temple) Bella has also taught on the Bar Vocational Course (personal injury module) in Cardiff.
Bella is currently writing a book on delayed cancer claims, which is due to be published at the end of 2018.
Memberships
AVMA, PIBA
Education
King David High School, Liverpool; St Catherine’s College, Oxford (BA jurisprudence).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Clinical negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Bella Webb – Old Square Chambers ‘Bella is extremely thorough. Her attention to detail is exceptional which makes her a reliable and highly trustworthy barrister – she leaves no stone unturned in ensuring the claim is watertight.’
Old Square Chambers‘ clinical negligence team of ‘excellent barristers‘ work with both claimants and defendants in claims across a range of healthcare issues. Ben Collins KC has notable experience in dental negligence litigation, and international law issues: recently acting in a multi-defendant claim arising out of negligent weight loss surgery performed in Italy after consultation in England. Junior Bella Webb has extensive experience in complex delay in cancer diagnosis cases, Sophie Beesley has ‘developed an outstanding practice in claimant clinical negligence work’.