The ‘excellent, trustworthy’ offering at Leigh Day in Manchester is well-placed to assist its portfolio of claimant clients with a variety of matters of the utmost complexity. The ’fantastic and communicative’ Stephen Jones helms the cohort and has specialisms spanning birth, spinal, and brain injury, cerebral palsy matters, and sensitive inquests. Brendan Hope has broad-ranging expertise, which includes neonatal death cases, wrongful birth claims, and failure to diagnose cases. Lauren Tully‘s experience includes advising on maternity care failings, birth injury claims, and surgical errors. Rebecca Ridgeon has capabilities spanning brain, spinal, and orthopaedic injuries. Stephen Clarkson has experience handling such complex and sensitive matters as failure to prevent suicide.
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Work highlights
Handling an ongoing complex multi-million-pound case arising out of a failure to identify a series of abnormalities in utero during antenatal scanning of a child.
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Practice head
Stephen Jones
Other key lawyers
Brendan Hope; Lauren Tully; Rebecca Ridgeon; Stephen Clarkson