Sarah Lambert KC authorised to act as a High Court Judge - Jan 2025
Clinical Negligence
Sarah is a highly regarded specialist in clinical negligence. Experienced across the board in all types of medical claims, she now increasingly focuses on highly complex neurological brain injury, spinal, amputation and obstetric injury claims, including twins, meningitis claims and wrongful birth cases, acting both for Claimants and Defendants. Additionally, she has a number of cases involving young Claimants with neurodivergence, learning disabilities and gender incongruence.
Sarah is also retained in respect of claims with Covid factors, genetic screening, and co-sanguinity.
Noted for her empathy, she also has a significant caseload of fatal cases, particularly those arising out of delayed cancer diagnoses, and cases of suicide by mental health patients.
Selected Cases
Claimants
- DRH v an NHS Trust 2026: (ongoing) child brain injury quantum ongoing after liability split compromise agreed in respect of female twin with neurodevelopmental delay and right sided weakness.
- JM v a GP 2026: (ongoing) acting in respect of the death of a 28 year old who contacted and died from Covid in hospital in the presence of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, having to be treated in hospital rather than at home due to delay in GP management.
- EM v an NHS Foundation Trust 2026: (ongoing) acting for a female Claimant in connection with a delayed diagnosis of rare sarcoma. In life claim with complex loss of chance arguments on account of Claimant’s career.
- KZ v an NHS Foundation Trust 2026: (ongoing) FAA claim for widow and children with autism spectrum diagnoses, following the suicide of their husband / father.
- NB v an NHS Foundation Trust 2025: new settlement achieved in fatal claim arising out of negligent cardiac management. Original undervalued settlement (previous counsel) set aside and claim re-negotiated on behalf of widow and children. One child with autism and gender incongruence. Successful at trial on costs arguments also.
- XYZ (a child) v an NHS Trust 2024: confidential high value multi million figure settlement approved in an obstetric claim acting for a boy twin born with profound neurological injury.
- KH (A protected party, by his Father and Litigation Friend) v an NHS Trust 2024: settlement achieved in high value claim re delay in the diagnosis and treatment of the Claimant’s developmental dysplasia of the left hip where the Claimant has unrelated global developmental delay.
- JB (a child) v an NHS Trust 2024: sad claim in which the original child claimant, a boy born with hypoxic ischaemic birth injury Grade II hie, microcephaly, 4 limb cerebral palsy, global developmental delay, blindness, hip dysplasia and epilepsy, died at the age of 14 during the currency of the claim as a direct consequence of inability to clear secretions due to his brain injury.
Defendants
- DDG v an NHS Foundation Trust 2026: (ongoing) acting in quantum defence (liability compromise achieved) in respect of young female claimant with cerebral palsy.
- PDX v 2 GPs, a Practice Nurse, 2 Community Midwives and an NHS Trust 2026:(ongoing) complex defence in relation to a mother developing ALFP and intrahepatic cholestasis at 33 weeks of pregnancy, resulting in hypoxic brain injury to her unborn child.
- SP v a Hospital 2026: (ongoing) brain injury claim in respect of delay in diagnosing and treating hydrocephalus. Complex causation in respect of inevitable unrelated underlying neurocognitive deficits. Claimant an adoptee and genetic history in issue.
- GR v a Health Board 2026: (ongoing) liability split discount achieved and quantum ongoing in a claim by a child who was born heathy but subsequently sustained profound neurological injury at the age of 11 having suffered asthma induced cardiac arrest.
- SP v an Ambulance Service 2025: liability split compromise achieved in catastrophic spinal injury claim arising out of alleged mishandling after a dive into a swimming pool rendered the Claimant unconscious.
- OFC v a Health Board 2025: successful settlement of high value obstetric brain injury claim.
- SXH v a GP 2025; successful settlement of liability in respect of delay in the diagnosis of meningitis caused by Neisseria Meningitidis, causing hearing loss and cognitive impairment.
- TC v an NHS Foundation Trust 2024: neurosurgical claim arising out of alleged delay in undertaking spinal decompressive surgery.
- MW v an NHS Trust 2024: meningitis brain injury claim.
- RD v an NHS Trust 2024: claim concerning bowel perforation, sepsis and kidney injury suffered by the recipient of a cadaver donor kidney following pseudo-obstruction.
- AM v an NHS Trust 2024: claim in respect of MCA injury causing stroke during tumour debulking surgery.
