specialists in women’s health
We are a leading firm of solicitors specialising in claims arising from personal injury and clinical negligence. Our women’s health team is dedicated to supporting mothers who have suffered traumatic injury through childbirth due to medical negligence. Our clients benefit from empathetic and friendly lawyers who don’t shy away from difficult cases and who truly understand the many complexities and emotions these cases can bring.
Having a baby can be the most exciting and wonderful experience in your life. However, for many women, physical and psychiatric injuries are a side effect of childbirth. We trust in doctors and midwives to take care of us, but sometimes errors made during or after birth can result in serious injuries for mothers.
Many women will accept that they might get a vaginal tear or suffer with some incontinence during pregnancy and birth. However, the severity of these injuries can vary widely. The aim in a medical negligence claim is to get you the financial compensation you need to ensure you have access to medical and rehabilitation services both now and in the future. By doing so, this can help maximise your recovery and allow you to focus on and enjoy your newborn baby.
Passionate about justice, we understand the challenges facing our clients and we stand with them every step of the way. We use the law to secure compensation to help injured people. And when the law falls short, we strive to change it.
Not only are our solicitors passionate about helping women, but we are also determined to raise awareness of the injuries which many women don’t always feel empowered to discuss. Read more here.
Our service includes:
Nationwide visits at home or in hospital
Free, no obligation initial consultation
“No win, no fee” funding arrangement
Access to early rehabilitation and medical assistance
Direct access to your solicitors, including outside normal working hours
Step by step guidance through the litigation process
Practical and emotional support for clients and their families
Welfare benefits advice
SEN advice from our IPSEA-qualified Specialist Educational Needs advisors
WHy choose us?
Our teams are regularly ranked in the leading independent legal directories.
The Legal 500 describes our team as ‘extremely thorough, very personable and approachable, and that we ‘do not shy away from taking on some very complex and difficult clinical negligence cases.’
Chambers & Partners describes our clinical negligence team as ‘thorough and conscientious’ with another interviewee stating: ‘Everyone I have dealt with has been excellent in their craft, knowledgeable and easily contactable.’
Our team are passionate about using their platform to drive positive change for women in the area of maternity care. We have engaged with government consultations, campaigned to raise awareness, work with excellent charities who support women, and we will continue to work tirelessly to further this cause.
Hannah Travis, Associate in the Complex Injury team
Hannah specialises in medical negligence claims, in particular those relating to women’s health, and she is passionate about securing justice for her clients.
Cheryl Abrahams, Partner in the Child Brain Injury team
Having spent many years representing claimants with a range of life-changing injuries, Cheryl now acts exclusively for children who have suffered brain injuries in accidents, including instances of birth trauma.
Joshua Hughes, Partner and Head of BBK’s Complex Injury team
Joshua specialises in representing people who have sustained serious injuries in a variety of circumstances; from road traffic collisions, to accidents at work to injuries caused in a healthcare setting. Working on behalf of both adults and children, he has developed considerable expertise across both personal injury and medical negligence claims of the utmost complexity.
Claudia Hillemand, Partner and Head of BBK’s Child Brain Injury team
Claudia is head of the twenty-strong specialist Child Brain Injury team at Bolt Burdon Kemp. She acts exclusively for children who have sustained a brain injury as a result of medical errors or accidents. She has experience of severe and complex claims involving children with cerebral palsy who have sustained brain injuries at birth, successfully securing multi-million pound settlements to ensure families’ peace of mind that their child’s life-long complex needs will be met, throughout their lives. ·
Recent cases
Secured £2.2m compensation award for a young mother who sustained lifelong injuries, including bowel incontinence, following medical negligence at the time of her daughter’s birth.
We acted for a mother suffering from physical and significant psychiatric injuries as a result of a negligently managed birth resulting in avoidable injuries to the mother and her baby. This claim included future costs for private midwife treatment for future births and private caesarean section costs as well as assisting with psychiatric treatment.
Secured a multi-million pound settlement for a child who received negligent care during birth, which resulted in cerebral palsy.
Links
Our Women’s Health Hub features a whole host of information about pregnancy and maternity issues
Listen to our podcast about Britain’s first Birth Trauma Inquiry here
Meet our medical negligence team here
Read more about Bolt Burdon Kemp’s manifesto for injured people here, and how we are #ChampioningChange
Contact us
Call us on: 020 7288 4800