Lyons Davidson offers a ‘first-rate service’ to clients in clinical negligence claims, ranging from low-value to maximum severity injuries and catastrophic incidents. In Bristol, the clinical negligence practice falls within the firm’s expansive civil division, with team lead Joanna Laidlaw specialising in child brain injury cases. Tabitha Rooks is recommended for high-value clinical negligence claims, noted for obtaining ’great results’ for clients. Associate Sana Akram handles a broad range of cases, involving stroke, amputation and birth injury issues.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Lyons Davidson provide an excellent service to clinical negligence clients. The team is well run and impressive and gets some great results. They have scale to undertake the most serious cases and the talent to provide a first rate service to their clients.’

  • ‘Tabitha Rook is a impressive individual with huge experience and a first-rate legal mind. She provides great leadership and gets great results.’

  • 'Joanna Laidlaw is very experienced, tactically astute and sound judgment. She is also hard working.'

  • 'Sana Akram was sensitive, caring and professional throughout the whole difficult process. I believe Sana Akram unquestionably made the right calls at the right time. When it then came to the final stages her negotiation skills were excellent which ended up with an extremely satisfactory result and compensation pay out. I would highly recommend both Sana and Lyons Davidson to represent an individual in a medical negligence claim.’

  • ‘Extremely professional throughout all communications. Prompt, personal and fully appraised of the detail associated with my case.’

  • ‘Open and honest. Communication has been excellent. Bringing in experts for the various aspects of the case. Always approachable.’

Practice head

Joanna Laidlaw; Tabitha Rooks

Other key lawyers

Sana Akram