1 Crown Office Row garners praise as 'the leading chambers for claimant child abuse work' in the personal injury arena. Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC is 'a phenomenal barrister with a very sharp intellect and outstanding legal and medical knowledge'; she is very experienced in representing claimants in catastrophic injury cases, as well as multi-party actions arising from claims of sexual and physical abuse of adults and children. Justin Levinson is another key practitioner who handles compensation claims arising from sexual abuse in childhood.
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Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC is a leading practitioner in Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury claims. Lizanne has a distinguished reputation for representing Claimants with highly complex claims for catastrophic injury. In clinical negligence she has particular expertise and experience in birth damage and neo-natal claims but acts in claims arising in a wide range of circumstances. In personal injury she acts for Claimants with head injuries, spinal injuries and other complex multiple injuries.
Lizanne’s work also involves multi-party actions and she recently acted for over 700 Claimants in the litigation against Mr Ian Paterson, Spire Healthcare and HEFT. Lizanne has also been instructed in a number of multi-party actions arising out of sexual abuse and physical abuse of children and adults in institutions including the Jimmy Savile litigation and the Winterbourne View claims. Claims against private hospitals, the catholic church and local authorities have involved a number of cases which have resulted in the development of the law in respect of vicarious liability.
Career
Qualified 1974; silk 1999; co-author of ‘Child Abuse Compensation Claims’ (Jordans); co-author ’Clinical Negligence (A Practitioner’s Handbook)’ (Oxford University Press).
Memberships
Personal Injury Bar Association; Family Law Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association, APIL; AvMA.
Education
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (1975 MA Politics, Philosophy and Economics); Bar Finals (1974).
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