1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review – Spring 2020 – Issue 5 - May 2020
Personal Injury
Shaheen acts in personal injury matters, often linked to her other practice areas of clinical negligence and prison law.
Selected Cases
- FG v MOJ [2017]: For a prisoner with a known peanut allergy who was given food containing peanuts and suffered a stroke. Settlement was reached prior to trial.
- Whalley v (1) Erico Emea Corporation (2) MT NHST [2017]: For the Health Trust in a high value claim with complex causation issues. The Claimant suffered burns and blast injuries at work as a result of his employer’s negligence and a subsequent bowel perforation as a result of delayed surgery. Case settled at RTM.
- Fulton v (1) Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services UK Limited (2) Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust (3) Balfour Beatty Major Projects [2016]: For First Defendant, the direct employer of a scaffolder injured when working at a hospital where multiple contractors had access to the site. Case settled prior to trial.
- KE v MOJ [2010]: For former female prisoner who brought an action alleging assault by a fellow prisoner and sexual assault by prison officers, settled at mediation.
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Control order upheld following rehearing - May 2016
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Members of 1COR acted in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust Public Inquiry - Feb 2013
