Claire Hurrell

Information about the specialist

c.hurrell@barcankirby.co.uk

Practice Areas

Claire has practiced exclusively in claimant clinical negligence since qualification and has over 13 years of experience in this area. She has come to particularly specialise in the following areas of clinical negligence:

• Cases of all kinds involving obstetric care including:

- the representation of children who have sustained life altering brain injury as a result of negligence in the management of their birth.

- acting for bereaved parents who have lost a child arising from obstetric negligence.

- claims on behalf of women who have sustained gynaecological and psychiatric injury as a result of obstetric mismanagement.

• Cases involving a fatality more generally, particularly involving infection and sepsis.

• Inquests arising from potential medical negligence.

• Cases involving a psychiatric element, particularly secondary victim claims.