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Position: Partner & Head of Clinical Negligence department

Emma is Head of the Clinical Negligence department and a partner at Pannone LLP.

The majority of Emma’s work involves representing people in clinical and medical negligence compensation claims. Her caseload is varied and includes a substantial number of cases of maximum severity, cerebral palsy and birth injuries. She also has experience of medical disciplinary work and lectures regularly on medical ethical and human rights issues and other matters relating to her legal practice.

Emma has significant experience in cases involving amputation, spinal injuries and failure to diagnose cancer. Her work also embraces negligence in private hospitals including cosmetic surgery claims. She handles many fatal accident compensation claims and has represented her clients at Inquests

Emma also has a specific interest in health law generally, including medical treatment cases. Emma represented the mother in the well known case of Re: T in 1996 relating to a dispute over the medical treatment of a child.

Emma handles a number of cases involving alleged breaches of human rights in relation to medical treatment both in this jurisdiction and in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg; Emma represented one of the Appellants in the case of JD and Others –v- East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust and Others, which proceeded to the House of Lords in 2005 and to the European Court of Human Rights where in 2008, Emma’s clients, RK and AK, were successful in establishing a breach of Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to an effective legal remedy).

Emma is a member of Solicitors Regulation Authority Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel, a member of the AvMA Solicitors Referral Panel, a Senior Litigator of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), and a member of the Association of Disciplinary and Regulatory Lawyers (ARDL).

Emma is a recognised “Leader in her Field” in Chambers, where she is described as “really top notch”

Emma studied Law at Manchester University and lectured in Law before qualifying in 1994. Emma joined the Clinical Negligence department at Pannone in 1995 and became a Partner in 1998.

Specialist Areas:

• Clinical Negligence

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