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Slater and Gordon’s clinical negligence team handles a significant volume of maximum severity claims, including cerebral palsy, spinal injury, and fatal maternal cases. The practice is led by Emma Doughty, whose wide-ranging caseload includes complex hypoxic brain injury, stroke mismanagement, and cross-border litigation. Laura Preston plays a key strategic role and leads on high-value matters, while Madeline Seibert is noted for her longstanding experience in catastrophic claims. Helen Osborne oversees a large team and manages a broad portfolio of birth injury, surgical error, and cancer-related claims. Heather Moore and Laura Cleevely continue to work on long-running cases, while Nadia Saber is active in stroke and amputation-related mandates. The team maintains a strong focus on interim relief and early rehabilitation, and is frequently instructed in litigation raising novel or untested issues, particularly in the context of international proceedings, medico-legal governance, and mass group actions.
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Position
Emma is a principal lawyer and was promoted to Joint Head of the Clinical Negligence Department for London and Cambridge in April 2017.
Emma is an experienced litigation solicitor specialising in clinical negligence claims.
As a skilled advocate, she has trained for and was recently awarded by the Law Society the Higher Rights of Audience qualification in June 2016, making her a Solicitor-Advocate.
During her career Emma has dealt with a wide variety of complex and high value claims.
These have included securing compensation for clients who have suffered as the result of delays in diagnosis of cancer and other illnesses, amputation cases and injuries during birth and during labour.
Emma has developed a specialism in claims concerning delays in diagnosis of cancer and more specifically in breast cancer.
She is currently one of the two Lead Solicitors running the group action against Ian Paterson (the former breast surgeon from Birmingham who has been convicted of performing negligent and inappropriate surgeries. Emma was mentioned in the Lawyers Top 20 Cases in January 2017 for her role.
Career
Emma began her legal career in 2008 and has been with Slater and Gordon since 2013.
Memberships
Emma is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and has a clinical negligence Law Society accreditation.
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‘The team have been extremely helpful and supportive to me during this difficult period. They have been extremely responsive to any questions I have asked them and they have been very understanding.’
‘I was assigned a team that was extremely proficient in the clinical complexity of my medical condition. This gave me significant assurance and trust that my team was able to act on my behalf with an extremely high level of understanding and without doubt, this served me very well in my final outcome.’