John Gimlette

Clinical Negligence

Selected Cases

• Choppin v Brighton & Hove City Teaching NHS PCT & Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust: failure to control bilateral hip infections. The claim settled in 2016 for a substantial six-figure sum.
• Ashley Watkins v North Lincolnshire & Goole Hospitals NHS Trust: failure by midwives to manage shoulder dystocia. The claim settled in 2016 for well over £1 million.
• BM v UCLH NHS Trust: acted for the Defendant in this quantum-only case where the claimant was left in a persistent vegetative state. After protracted negotiations, the case settled in 2016.
• Grimshaw v County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust: acted for the claimant who, as a result of the admitted negligence was left with severe injuries, including chronic pain, a permanent stoma and loss of mobility. The case settled in 2016 for a substantial six-figure sum together with PPOs.
• Scott v Bournemouth NHS Trust: For the Claimant; brain damage as a result of allegedly mismanaged delivery. Settled for a large retained sum together with PPOs.
• Pendreich v James Paget etc NHS Trust: on behalf of the hospital, in a high value brain injury case, involving an alleged failure to treat high blood pressure.
• Lindsay v Fewster, Blackpool CC: successful defence of a surgeon re cauda equina.
• Fielding v Rosbottom, Manchester CC: successful defence of a GP; alleged failure to diagnose congenital dislocation of the hip.
• Yates v Poole Hospital NHS Trust: for the Claimant; brain damage allegedly caused by a negligent forceps delivery. Settled for a retained sum of £1.5 million together with PPOs.
• Willis v East & North Herts: Brain damage resulting from failure to diagnose PKU. (settled for undisclosed sum.)
• Brown v Sandeman: catastrophic damage due to alleged failure to diagnose a post operative spinal haemiorrhage. Settled for £4.5 million.
• Birch v University College London Hospital [2008] EWHC 2237 (QBD) Cranston J: consent, and the failure to advise of the relative merits of two alternative procedures.
• Wright v Norfolk & Norwich Hospitals QBD: £1.9 million award for catastrophic injury, together with PPO.
• Rowley v Laing, HHJ Grenfell, Leeds CC, Unreported: damages for undiagnosed cauda equine syndrome, against a background of inevitable damage.
• Warrilow v Norfolk & Norwich Hospitals NHS Trust [2006] EWHC 801 (QB) QBD (Langstaff J): the effect of exaggeration in a claim for personal injuries.
• Fenech v East London & City HA (1999) CA [2000] Lloyd’s Rep Med 35: ‘Date of knowledge’ in clinical negligence claims.
• Steele v Mooney & Ors [2005] EWCA CIV 96, CA: drafting errors and CPR 7.6(2) and the slip rule.)
• Talbot v Berkshire CC [1984] QBD 290 [1993] 3 WLR 708 : (1993) 4 All ER 9 : (1993) RTR 406 : (1993) PIQR P319 : (1993) 157 LG Rev 1004 : (1993) 143 NLJ 402 : Times, March 23, 1993. Action estoppel.
• Napier v UNUM [1999] 7 Med LR 349, QBD (Tuckey J): permanent health insurance.