Baby and Child Claims
We are acting for a client and her young son (aged 4) in connection with a claim for damages against Great Western Hospital in Swindon. Briefly, during the birth of her son in September 2018, there were a number of failings in the care provided to him which unfortunately resulted in a brain injury l [...]
Many English maternity units are not meeting safety standards putting mothers and babies at risk of injury and serious harm. The BBC reports that statistics produced by the Care Quality Commission indicate that more than half of maternity units in England consistently fail to meet safety standards. [...]
We have been acting for the parents of a young woman aged 22 (lacking capacity so she is a protected party) in connection with a clinical negligence claim against the Mid Staffs Hospital arising from treatment she received when she was a child between 2003 and 2004. Briefly, our client was born prem [...]
Seamus Edney at S J Edney Solicitors is acting for a Miss Maisie Price, the mother of baby Hunter who sadly died on 14 August 2019 aged only three months. She and her partner are unhappy with treatment Hunter received from Great Western Hospital in Swindon on the 13 and 14 August 2019. Briefly, on 1 [...]
We have been instructed by the father of Sofia-Grace Hill aged one (almost two) in connection with a potential claim against Great Western Hospital (the hospital) arising from treatment which his daughter received during January 2020. Briefly, Sofia-Grace had been unwell for a few days complaining o [...]
Seamus Edney at S J Edney Solicitors is acting for the parents of Master Elliott Morley (now aged 8) in connection with a claim for clinical negligence against Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust arising from treatment which he received at Great Western Hospital on the 28 June 2014 when he [...]
In this tragic case, as a result of inadequate APGAR assessments, our clients’ daughter, baby S, was not noticed to have signs of breathing difficulty until 25 minutes after her birth. Once the breathing difficulties were identified, a crash team were called and the baby was intubated and taken to t [...]
Our client, who was already under the care of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Team, when he began to develop an emerging eating disorder. Despite concerns raised by him and his family, the Mental Health Team decided that it was safe to discharge him from their care. For a period of six months [...]
Kernicterus is a rare complication of neonatal jaundice, caused when the bilirubin level in the blood rises to such a level that it crosses the blood-brain barrier, causing damage to the brain and spinal cord. Our clients repeatedly told the community midwives that attended after their baby’s birth [...]
On 16th October 2011, one of our clients was gardening with his parents at their home when a thorn went into his right ring finger. He attended the A & E department at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire. Due to his ongoing pain in this finger, he was later referred by the hospital to thei [...]
