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• Category: Case Studies
  • Charles’ story: Enable Law supports widow of man who was wrongly discharged
  • David’s Story: Motorcycle accident with split liability
  • Max’s Story: Surgical aftercare
  • Jenna’s Story: Denying liability in surgical medical negligence
  • Alex’s Story: A lift in a car turned into a life changing event
  • Ciaran’s Story: Support after negligence lead to leg amputation
  • We helped Becky following the passing of her baby
  • Episiotomy injuries and incontinence – Sarah’s story
  • Cyclists caught in the wrong tracks
  • Success for client left with permanent digestive problems after delays
  • Successful settlement reached for client following stillbirth
  • Making a claim after being attacked by cows
  • Supporting our client after GBS negligence
  • Helping a young man left brain-injured after he was hit by a car
  • Losing a partner in an accident – how claims work
  • Being injured by items bought online – what might stop your claim?
  • Justice for mother whose child was lost due to sepsis mistakes
  • Admitting liability for an accident – can you change your mind?
  • Delayed diagnosis of a SUFE – how we helped our client
  • Justice for parents after baby guidance was not followed
  • Compensation for woman and horse injured in car accident
  • Successful claim for woman left disabled by cauda equina syndrome
  • Settlement for mother of stillborn baby
  • Successful claim provides ongoing care for client injured at work
  • Compensation for client injured by hospital acquired infection
  • Justice for mother after doctors failed to listen to her concerns
  • Claim success for mother of stillborn baby
  • Hospital apology for client whose daughter died following maternity mistakes
  • Success for woman whose eyesight was damaged by late diagnosis
  • Success for client whose misdiagnosis cost him a career in rugby
  • Misdiagnosis of sepsis claim settles successfully
  • Case success – Full settlement for client who lost an eye at work
  • Success for client with delayed diagnosis of lung cancer
  • Successful claim will allow client to buy suitable home
  • Claim success for client injured when helicopter scared her horse
  • Success for client injured by misdiagnosis
  • Compensation settlement for walker severely injured in cow attack
  • Success for client whose wife died following a routine colonoscopy procedure
  • Double Success for Negligent Hysterectomy Claims
  • Success for Client Misdiagnosed with Terminal Lung Cancer
• Category: Events
  • Baby Loss Awareness Week 2022
  • Event: How To Make Amazing Happen
  • Seminar: Thinking outside of the box – Inspiring and Inventive ways to support P
  • Love and Understanding – A Court of Protection Seminar
  • Webinar – Investments and tax planning in the Court of Protection
  • Event: “Transition into Adulthood – the right to make your own decisions”
  • Event – Mental Capacity Breakfast Seminar
  • Event: Mind Over Matter – Helping a Brain Injured Person Through Life’s Challenges
  • Event: Know the System – Practical Tips for Families with Disabled Children
  • Event: Enabling Advocates – Legal tools to support your clients
• Category: Expert Opinion
  • How they monitor your baby during pregnancy & labour
  • What do clients want to achieve by investigating a medical negligence claim?
  • Is my baby’s position during pregnancy and labour important?
  • Cyclists, insurance and accident liability
  • Buttonhole tears & OASI injuries during childbirth
  • Travel tips to keep in mind this winter break
  • Are you fully prepared for a winter ski holiday?
  • Removing the mystery of legal claims following Group B Strep
  • Road Safety Week 2022: An interview with Matt McFeat of PJA
  • Termination for medical reasons
  • Finding answers after baby loss
  • Gynaecological Cancer – what do you need to know?
  • High risk pregnancies: What does this mean and what happens next?
  • Swimming pools and holiday safety
  • How safe is your balcony?
  • Water sports accidents abroad
  • Dash cams – How can they help in an accident and should you get one?
  • Gestational diabetes – what is it and what care should I receive?
  • Cycling to work – Delivery danger
  • Choosing a solicitor for your personal injury claim
  • Hearing Loss in Neonatal Birth Injury cases
  • Managing diabetes, technology and complications
  • Early Intervention to Support Children with Learning Disabilities
  • Highway Code Changes: The new rules for car drivers in 2022
  • New report highlights problems with maternity care for Black mothers
  • Signs of Meningitis: The top 10 Symptoms to Look Out For
  • Understanding the Devastating Effect of Delayed Brain Aneurysm Treatment
  • What are the most common spinal injury complications and claims?
  • Who investigates negligent NHS maternity care in England?
  • Too Young for Cancer?
  • Brain Tumours in Childhood
  • Driving in Mainland Europe Post-Brexit
  • The Ockenden Maternity Review – The Final Report findings
  • Highway Code changes – How do they affect motorbikes?
  • Will the changes to the Highway Code make our roads safer for cyclists?
  • Horse riders and the new Highway Code changes
  • Hydrocephalus, head circumference and health visitor negligence
  • Pedestrians and the new Highway Code Changes
  • Finding the right car seat for your child
  • Driverless Vehicles – who is responsible if they crash?
  • Changes to the Highway Code – do you know the new rules?
  • Can I claim if I see a loved one killed or injured? How the law has changed
  • The rise of the Wellness holiday
  • Working with Chemicals – know your rights
  • The David Fuller Inquiry – Is enough being done for families?
  • Railway accidents – how do they happen?
  • Staying safe at home this Christmas
  • Are the Scout Association doing enough to prevent abuse?
  • Bikes, Lights and the Law!
  • Celebrating Emergency Service Heroes – Road Safety Week 2021
  • E-scooter Injuries: What you Need to Know
  • Making a personal injury claim for your child – what you need to know
  • The Importance of Appropriate Monitoring and Management of Small Aortic Aneurysms
  • Peri-operative Anaphylaxis – What is it, and why is it so dangerous?
  • Support for dads after the death of their baby
  • Sepsis: a mother’s tale
  • 10 Frequently Asked Questions about Strokes
  • Causes of Amputations and the impact of Diabetes
  • Making a claim after complications in childbirth
  • What Are the Different Types of Meningitis?
  • Dealing with Stress During a Serious Injury Claim
  • Caesarean versus Natural Birth- what’s the difference?
  • Dooring Injuries – A Guide for Cyclists
  • Baby loss – what can parents claim for?
  • When can you claim for an accident in a public place?
  • Home working & Display Screen Equipment – what are the rules?
  • Your baby’s head measurements and Hydrocephalus
  • What are the most common spinal injury complications?
  • AI Medical Diagnosis and Liability When Something Goes Wrong
  • What are the different types of Cerebral Palsy? Ataxic, athetoid and spastic
  • Delayed Diagnosis of Cancer – How do we know when delays cause harm?
  • Can you bring a claim for medical negligence against a health visitor?
  • Damages for data protection breaches in adoption proceedings
  • What do different Coroner’s Conclusions mean?
  • My child needs to see an Occupational Therapist – what questions should I ask?
  • Cerebral palsy diagnosis – what questions should I ask?
  • Mouth cancer – what do you need to know?
  • Why self-checking your breasts is now more important than ever
  • The 10 most common injuries caused by slips, trips, and falls in the workplace
  • What happens when A&E miss a diagnosis?
  • Preventing Pedestrian Injuries – Injury Prevention Week 2020
  • Claiming Compensation for a Child Cyclist Hit by a Car
  • Horses and Road Traffic Accident Claims – APIL Injury Prevention Week
  • Do Clinical Negligence Claims Encourage Defensive Medicine?
  • Why do parents make a birth injury claim?
  • Top 10 questions about Cauda Equina claims
  • How safe are Cornwall’s roads?
  • Objecting to a Power of Attorney Appointment: Is It Possible?
  • What Happens If a Patient Dies Before their Negligence Claim is Over?
  • What are the pros and cons of a personal injury trust?
  • Everything You Need to Know About Mental Capacity Assessments
  • Working at height – what does your employer need to do to protect you?
  • Is wrong diagnosis negligent?
  • Why Choose a Solicitor with Accreditation?
  • What to Expect at a Coroner’s Inquest
  • What is Klumpke’s Palsy?
  • Gosport War Memorial Hospital Deaths – What has happened, and why?
  • Neonatal Stroke Causes
  • Bowel Cancer Misdiagnosis
  • What are paraplegia, hemiplegia and quadriplegia?
  • What is Gross Negligence Manslaughter and How Can You Make a Claim?
  • Hypoxic Ischemic Brain Injury
  • Why Is It Important to Talk About Miscarriage and Stillbirth?
  • Why Parents ask me to Investigate their Stillbirth Claims
  • Are Some Cancer Compensation Claims More Common Than Others?
  • Delayed Management of Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: A Recent Case
  • The Most Common Broken Bones in the Body: The Top 10
  • Women and Heart Disease – Part 2
  • Women and Heart Disease – Part 1
  • What Are the Most Common Types of Spinal Injury Claims?
  • Sheehan’s syndrome: What is postpartum hypopituitarism?
  • Health & Welfare Deputy Appointments – When are They Appropriate?
  • Sands Month – Finding Your Way 2019 – Can Fathers Claim Following Stillbirth?
  • Is the NHS Learning from Deaths?
  • What Effect Can Cauda Equina Negligence Have on Your Life?
  • Cauda Equina Syndrome: A Missed Diagnosis
  • The History of Medical Negligence in the UK
  • Group B Strep During Pregnancy and Beyond: How A Solicitor Can Help
  • Each Baby Counts – How Hospitals Can Prevent Medical Negligence Claims
  • Why Do People Bring Clinical Negligence Claims?
  • Is It Always Negligent To Miss a Scaphoid Fracture?
  • How to Enhance Memory After an Acquired Brain Injury
  • Misleading Advice in Accident and Emergency – New Case Decision
  • Clinical guidelines: Litigation, Patient Safety and the Law
  • What Does a Coroner Mean by Death By Natural Causes?
  • Everything You Need to Know About Causation in Medical Negligence Cases
  • Caesarean Sections – What Are They, And When Might You Need One?
  • Negligent Delay in Diagnosing Melanoma
  • Seeking Compensation in Road Traffic Accidents
  • An Ischaemic Stroke: Was it Avoidable?
  • Enable Law’s Paul Sankey contributes to AvMA Lawyers Service Newsletter
  • Independent review of the Mental Health Act—changes are needed
  • The Importance of Being Honest – Claimants That Lie Can Lose Their Damages
  • Breast cancer and delays in diagnosis: A guide for patients
  • Alex McKnight – My experience as a Litigant in Person
  • Medical negligence: When brain surgery goes wrong
  • Laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy – time to review?
  • Coping with baby loss – lessons from my career
  • Lack of Informed Consent to Spinal Surgery: Tracy Hassell v Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Cervical Cancer Signs and Screening – #SmearForSmear
  • Consent to Medical Treatment: The Role of the Expert
  • Bereavement Damages | A step in the right direction for unmarried couples in fatal claims?
  • Consent and Medical Care – Gallardo v Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Maternal deaths: Why women still die in childbirth
  • Why Misdiagnosing Type 1 Diabetes Can be Serious
  • What Patients Want: Do Doctors Really Know?
  • Asbestos: 6 key facts when considering making an industrial disease claim
  • NHS Outsourcing: Is It Safe?
  • Group B Strep – five good reasons to talk to a lawyer
  • Mesh Rectopexy: Do I have a claim?
  • Stage 0 breast cancer and unnecessary treatment
  • Cardiac Monitoring of Young People in Sport
  • Rogue surgeons: how do they get away with it?
  • Doing Your Duty – New Guidance for Professional Attorneys from the Office of the Public Guardian
  • Sepsis – 6 Steps to Save a Life
  • Meningitis: How Important is Early Diagnosis?
  • Cervical Cancer Causes
  • Babies with cerebral palsy: Number of claims increases
  • Where Tramadol Causes Harm: Claims for Damages
  • Bristol, Two Decades On – Have Lessons Been Learned?
  • Wrong Use of Forceps: The Sad Story of a Badly Damaged Baby
  • Cancer in pregnancy
  • Who is to Blame When Private Surgery Goes Wrong?
  • Should carers working a sleeping night shift be paid minimum wage?
  • Updated – European Court of Human Rights Decision re: Charlie Gard
  • What is Necrotising Fasciitis?
  • Doctors’ Duty in Obtaining Consent: How the Law Has Changed
  • Law Commission releases report on Will Reform
  • Accessory Nerve Damage
  • What can I claim following the death of a loved one?
  • Brain Damage: An Invisible Injury?
  • My work with stillbirth and neonatal death – an interview with Claire Stoneman
  • History of Cerebral Palsy
  • Religious practices and brain injured persons: No easy answer
  • Diabetes Awareness Week 2017 – Know Diabetes, Fight Diabetes
  • A Guide to Child Heart Surgery
  • Re-evaluating the approach to NHS litigation—seeking redress for severe avoidable injuries
  • Bereavement – Do I need a solicitor, and other frequently asked questions
  • Consent – Changing priorities
  • The Loneliness of the NHS Whistleblower
  • Misdiagnosis of Bowel Cancer
  • Some nice surprises about funding a medical negligence claim
  • Three Girls – Child Sexual Exploitation
  • How do I complain about my GP?
  • Why Do Woman Get Cervical Cancer Despite Smear Tests?
  • Sepsis and Why the NHS Needs a No-Blame Culture
  • Diabetes and Avoidable Amputations: What Do the Reported Legal Cases Tell Us?
  • Maternal Death in Childbirth and Why it Still Happens
  • How do I Complain About my Hospital Treatment?
  • Smear Tests and Cervical Cancer Negligence
  • Charcot’s Foot
  • Tension-Free Vaginal Tape and Mesh Claims
  • Do Antibiotics Increase the Risk of Sepsis?
  • Consent to treatment – so, did you know the law has changed?
  • A recent case on limitation in historic child abuse claims – the importance of a previous conviction and consent
  • Care for vulnerable adults – has anything changed since Winterbourne View?
  • Lasting Powers of Attorney: Leave my door open
  • Why is Melanoma Diagnosed Late?
  • Prosthetic Limbs and Disabled Athletes: How Do They Do It?
  • Important: Check your St Jude Medical cardiac devices
• Category: Latest News
  • Review of maternity care at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton
  • Reclaiming your body after breast cancer: how to access support
  • Whorlton Hall and abuse of vulnerable adults – the next steps
  • How can hydrocephalus be treated?
  • Removing the mystery of legal claims involving hydrocephalus in children and babies
  • Cancer waiting times statistics: Q3 2022/2023
  • New Coroner’s guidance on stillbirths & live births following termination of pregnancy
  • World Cancer Day 2023 | #CLOSETHECAREGAP
  • Enable Law settles claim for claimant who was given ten percent chance of survival
  • Fullerton House Doncaster – Abuse on a level seen at Winterbourne View
  • Enable Law strengthens Clinical negligence offering with a specialist Consultant appointment
  • How to avoid falling foul of travel-related fraud
  • Why isn’t my baby growing normally: The causes and the care you may receive
  • Contact Sports Injuries
  • Coroner report reveals delays in ambulance response times in Cornwall
  • Compensation Scheme for families of David Fuller’s victims
  • British Gymnastics Taking Steps to Protect Children from Abuse
  • Review of cancer waiting times 22/23
  • Enable Law’s annual quiz raises funds for Headway Somerset
  • Strong position in the latest Chambers UK Guide
  • The bereavement is everyone’s business report
  • The Final Report: Independent Inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA)
  • The Final Report: Kirkup Independent Inquiry Into East Kent Maternity Services
  • Church of England completed a review of 75,000+ cases
  • Spina Bifida Awareness Week: Spina bifida occulta and tethered spinal cords
  • Wave Of Light: In memory of babies who have gone too soon
  • Rainbow Babies: Light after dark
  • Giving back after baby loss
  • A parent’s perspective: My journey since my son’s stillbirth in 2008
  • Charities supporting those who lost a baby
  • Enable Law bolsters clinical negligence team with new Legal Director
  • The David Fuller Inquiry: Fuller has been given two life sentences for murder
  • The David Fuller Inquiry: Fuller has been charged with 16 further sexual offences
  • Allegations staff mistreated patients at a mental health unit in Manchester
  • Supporting students from the University of Plymouth – one student’s story
  • Is your passport valid for travel?
  • What to do when all else fails – what is Section 75 consumer protection?
  • Proposed Law of Death by Dangerous Cycling to Offer Greater Protection to Pedestrians
  • Cosmetic tourism – how to stay safe
  • Investigation into abuse at Levanto Care Home in Paignton
  • Coroner finds failures of basic medical care caused death of Surrey woman
  • 10 Top Tips for a Safe Barbecue Season
  • Spanish house party fines – don’t be caught out
  • Abuse in British Gymnastics: Release of the Whyte Review
  • Highway Code changes highlight lack of regulation in van sector
  • Educational School Trips are on the cards again
  • Electric cars – learning the new sound of danger
  • How to avoid being the victim of holiday fraud
  • Could Tranexamic Acid save thousands of lives a year?
  • Cerebral Palsy Inspiration: Famous Faces Who Live With the Disorder
  • Walking to School
  • FND (Functional Neurological Disorder) – what is it, and how is it caused?
  • Alcohol restrictions in the Balearic Islands – are you aware?
  • Action Cerebral Palsy launches Five Year Strategy at the House of Commons
  • The aftermath of the storms – when can you claim?
  • Will the M27 Smart Motorway be safe to use?
  • IWD 2022: Meet Emily Johnstone
  • Help in Bereavement – Supporting bereaved people in Hampshire
  • “Hydrocephalus – What I wish I’d known” A conversation with Harry’s HAT
  • Cruising to new levels
  • What is Repetitive Strain Injury? RSI Awareness Day 2022
  • Landmark settlement secured for family of a young Northampton girl with Cerebral Palsy
  • Is your travel insurance fit for purpose?
  • Violent Crimes and Compensation – What is the CICA?
  • The importance of early GBS diagnosis – a client’s story
  • The 2022 NICE guidelines for traumatic injury rehabilitation
  • Half term ski holidays are go!
  • Enable Law supports the Acquired Brain Injury Bill
  • Capacity, Consent and Relationships – The Supreme Court hands down its Judgment in JB
  • Abuse at Private Schools – what can you do?
  • Top tips for Winter Sports Holidays
  • Government launches inquiry into David Fuller abuse
  • Nowhere to Run: Abused by our Coach
  • Can a care team be lawfully involved in facilitating contact with a sex worker for a vulnerable person?
  • We’re top-ranked in the latest Chambers UK guide
  • Top tips for half term travel
  • Who is responsible when an icy road is not gritted?
  • Attending an inquest after your baby’s death
  • Can I claim for surrogacy costs after medical negligence?
  • What mental health support is available after having a baby?
  • Finding support for you and your family after baby loss
  • Enable Law bolsters Southampton team with a new Managing Associate
  • Positive changes after a stillbirth claim – ensuring our client’s voice is heard
  • Settlement achieved for client injured in car park accident
  • Enable Law lawyer receives Lifetime Achievement award
  • Do you know the symptoms of sight loss? National Eye Health Week
  • Enable Law Organises Bristol to Bath Cycle4Sepsis Bike Ride
  • World Sepsis Day: How to spot sepsis
  • Safer Cycling – Changes to the Highway Code
  • A day in the life of a charity volunteer
  • Client who suffered a brain injury while working on a barn receives compensation
  • Bradford authorities have apologised for failing to protect victims of child sexual exploitation
  • Group B Streptococcus Support – 25 years of progress
  • Enable Law’s Court of Protection Team Shortlisted for Award
  • Cancer in Pregnancy – what happens next?
  • What does it feel like to use an exo-skeleton?
  • Gastric Bypass Surgery – what are the risks?
  • Have a say in the future of women’s healthcare
  • 10th Anniversary of Winterbourne View Scandal and Transforming Care Programme
  • Why were NHS patient safety reports not published?
  • UK Ovarian cancer screening trial – what happened?
  • Healthcare Regulatory Reform – Have Your Say!
  • What are the most dangerous places to work in 2021?
  • Welcome Tim Bennett, Court of Protection Legal Director
  • Worcester Maternity Deaths – another whistleblower silenced?
  • Case Update – The Inquest of Zoe Clark
  • Bowel Cancer – What you need to know
  • Government launches enquiry into abuse in Schools
  • Media enquiries for the inquest into the death of Zoe Clark
  • Damages awarded after avoidable death of Swindon mum-of-three
  • Innovations in health care
  • Sheldon Review highlights institutional failings in the football child sexual abuse scandal
  • Changes to whiplash claim law – what do they mean?
  • Giving to the Community – hidden disabilities
  • National Association for People Abused in Childhood produces first Impact Report
  • Looking for a new challenge? We’re hiring
  • New decision on psychiatric injury claims
  • IICSA reports finds Nottingham and Nottinghamshire councils did not investigate abuse claims properly
  • Should we continue to have Never Events in healthcare?
  • Patient recovers damages after a brainstem stroke
  • Avonmouth explosion – what happens now?
  • Plymouth ex-teacher convicted of indecent assault of boys
  • Cerebral Palsy – What’s preventing early intervention?
  • Maternity Services Inquiry – Litigation as an Aid to Change
  • Shine’s Legal Service launches
  • Inquiry finds Catholic Church prioritised reputation over the welfare of children
  • Enable Law are proud to launch the Major Trauma Group
  • Review into abuse at Clinton House and Morleigh Group Homes published
  • What causes spina bifida? Folic acid and other risk factors
  • We’re celebrating ten years of Legal Directory success
  • Care Quality Commission release findings into report on the use of Restraint, Seclusion and Segregation in healthcare settings
  • Coping with baby loss in 2020
  • How have approaches to baby loss changed over time?
  • Investigation into Derby obstetrics and gynaecology consultant
  • Swift v Carpenter: What does it mean for Professional Deputies?
  • Rainbow babies – where to find support during the pandemic
  • New report says Church of England “failed victims”
  • Enable Law recognised in top legal directory
  • Duty of candour: Meaning and examples
  • Cygnet Yew Trees hospital closed following CQC inspection
  • The Cost of Maternity Mistakes
  • US Surrogacy Costs Now Recoverable in UK Compensation Awards
  • Multi-million pound settlement for brain injured client
  • Birth Trauma Awareness Week
  • Enable Law expands presence in Southampton
  • *Updated Oct 2020* Training or abuse? British gymnasts speak out
  • The NHS is now tracking Strep B cases – what does this mean for you?
  • Results of the independent review into Surgical Mesh and Sodium Valproate
  • Can you claim if you see a loved one being injured?
  • What is International Widows Day?
  • Inquiry finds perpetrators of child sexual abuse use sport as a cover
  • Worrying increase in lower limb amputations in England
  • Can I take parental leave when my child dies?
  • The Test of Breach of Duty – Paul Sankey in the Personal Injury Law Journal
  • What happens when monitoring during childbirth goes wrong?
  • Can you remove an attorney or deputy? Holly Mieville-Hawkins writes for the Law Society
  • Supporting our clients through Coronavirus
  • Can a Deputy litigate and take advice on behalf of a protected person?
  • Delayed caesarean section causing uterine tear
  • All party parliamentary group on child sexual abuse makes recommendations to Government
  • What Does a Coroner’s Conclusion of Neglect mean?
  • Concerns about Orthopaedic Surgeon in Birmingham
  • Glaucoma – why you shouldn’t ignore the danger signs
  • Birth injuries: what can we learn from the Shropshire maternity scandal?
  • Event – Enable Law Mock Inquest – Bristol
  • Family Matters for the Vulnerable Breakfast Seminars
  • Concerns Raised About Vascular Surgeon At Royal Cornwall Hospital
  • Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights publishes the findings of its investigation into the use of restraint and seclusion
  • Learning Disability Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme Annual Report
  • Where Tramadol Causes Harm: Claims for damages, Part 2
  • Enable Law ranked top in Chambers Legal Directory 2020
  • What is Backcare Awareness Week?
  • How Can Medical Negligence Lead to Stillbirth or Neonatal Death?
  • Are you Entitled to a Fee Refund for your Deputyship?
  • What is Baby Loss Awareness Week and How Can You Show Support?
  • Why More People Than Ever Are Setting Up a Power of Attorney
  • Asbestosis vs mesothelioma: What’s the difference?
  • Old Age and Medical Negligence – Can you be too old to Claim?
  • Gary Walker reviews the IICSA Child Abuse inquiry report into compensation claims
  • Farming – The UK’s deadliest industry
  • Cauda Equina Syndrome: Why is The Little-Known Spinal Injury Costing the NHS Millions?
  • Injury Prevention Day 2019
  • New Court of Protection Case Regarding Decision Making by Adults with Deputyship Order
  • National Road Victim Month: What Is It All About?
  • Chelsea Football Club Apologises Over Non-recent Child Sexual Abuse
  • Bleeding After Spinal Surgery: A Seriously Disabled Woman Recovers Damages
  • Public Sector Focus Features Laurence Vick Article
  • Further Failings Uncovered at Hospital run by Whorlton Hall Group
  • Royal Marsden – Improvements Needed for Medical Care of Children with Cancer
  • Spinal Surgery, Negligent Delays and Recognised Complications: When Can A Claimant Recover Damages?
  • Enable Law Successfully Settles Two Cerebral Palsy Claims
  • Clinical Trial into UK Group B Strep Prevention Announced
  • *Updated* Police Investigation into Whorlton Hall
  • CQC bares its teeth: A review of the Duty of Candour four years on
  • Ten years on from Landmark Sperm Destruction Case
  • Cwm Tag Health Board Hospitals Maternity Review Published
  • Inquest Funding– Ministry of Justice Final Report Published
  • Claims against GPs: Who Pays? The New Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice
  • Enable Law hires brain injury partner Huw Ponting
  • First ever fine for breach of medical honesty rules
  • Have your say on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice
  • Family of Nurse Julie O’Connor Call for Cervical Cancer Inquiry at Southmead Hospital
  • A New Law to Help Families of Missing Persons
  • World Cancer Day: 4 Cutting Edge Developments and 3 Causes of Delay
  • Cervical Cancer Prevention Week – January 2019
  • Successful Surrogacy Claim
  • Negligent Advice Leading to Wrongful Birth: How Far is a Doctor Liable?
  • Further Support For Mothers With Mental Health Issues Caused By Child’s Birth Injury
  • Tim Mason’s Story: Treating Sepsis Early is Vital
  • Roche Fights Off Challenge To Off-Label Use Of Avastin For Treatment Of Wet AMD
  • Updated re. Cwm Taf Health Board Investigation – More families included in Shrewsbury and Telford maternity review
  • Amputations, Damages and Getting the Right Prosthetic
  • Enable Law partners with Mummy’s Star
  • Laurence Vick published in Public Sector Focus
  • Successful settlement provides security for quadruple amputee
  • Enable Law completes Rob Jones protocol cases
  • Sepsis: Is it on the increase?
  • SUPREME COURT CLARIFIES POSITION ON END OF LIFE DECISIONS
  • I’m thinking of speaking to a lawyer, what do I need to know?
  • Enable Law’s Asha Beswetherick on The Mental Capacity Act 2005
  • Enable Law and Foundation for Infant Loss announce new corporate partnership
  • Church of England abuse investigation “failed” according to author of review
  • Lack Of Informed Consent To Spinal Surgery Article Featured in Medico-Legal Magazine
  • Are We Safe in a Public-Private Health Service?
  • Success for Plymouth Medical Expert Debate
  • Breast Screening IT Error: Have You Been Affected?
  • BBC report indicates worrying rate of medical birth mistakes
  • Child patients put at risk by ‘aggressive’ gastroenterology treatment at Great Ormond Street
  • Enable Law partners published in medical journal
  • Enable Law client speaks out to raise awareness of cervical cancer
  • Court Awards Costs of Surrogacy to a Woman who was Rendered Infertile as a Result of NHS Negligence
  • Can you believe it? Is what the witness says true? Clinical Negligence and Witness Evidence
  • Charcot Foot: Andy’s Story
  • Event: Risky Business – The Challenges of Acquired Brain Injury through the Stages of Life
  • Bush & Company joins forces with leading charity to create the largest specialist service for children with brain injuries in the UK
  • Laurence Vick of Enable Law speaks to Public Sector Focus magazine
  • The Met Police loses a landmark claim – victims of John Worboys are entitled to compensation to recognise the Police’s failings
  • *Updated Oct 2020* Barry Bennell – trial of ex-football coach for child abuse
  • Colonoscopy and Colon Cancer – What happens when diagnosis is missed?
  • Settlement approved for Brain Injury claim
  • Are you entitled to a fee refund for your Lasting Power of Attorney?
  • NHS pre-1995 claims data – what’s behind the numbers?
  • Dementia and marriage – a new way forward?
  • Northern Devon Healthcare Trust respond to serious concerns raised in CQC report
  • Laurence Vick’s feature on NHS Outsourcing in Public Sector Focus
  • Promoting professionalism and reforming regulation in healthcare
  • Global Recall of Lactalis Baby Milk Over Salmonella Fears
  • Enable Law’s Laurence Vick quoted in The I Newspaper
  • Enable Law Accreditation Achievements
  • NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH & CARE EXCELLENCE CALLS FOR VAGINAL MESH BAN
  • National Maternity and Perinatal Audit Report published on 9 November 2017
  • Concerns over Ladywell Maternity Unit at North Devon District Hospital
  • Local Authorities can be liable for Abuse – What does this mean?
  • STEP re-elects Patricia Wass as Worldwide Chair
  • FOSTER CARER ABUSE – LOCAL AUTHORITY LIABLE
  • Bristol Children’s Heart Scandal: 20 Years On From The GMC Hearings
  • Concerns remain for Allyn and Jenny Condon over death of baby Ben Condon
  • The Use of Sodium Valproate in Pregnancy
  • Jamie Mines: Lesson to be learnt?
  • Sepsis – When Things Go Wrong
  • Faulty White Goods – Theresa May is urged to take steps to improve consumer safety
  • Sussex Health Care investigated
  • Child operated on without consent at Derriford Hospital
  • Asking your service users for legacies – can you afford not to?
  • Negligent hospitals to get free pass at inquests under costs cap – warning from Laurence Vick
  • Answers for family whose mother died following Rob Jones surgery
  • Former Southampton FC coach, Bob Higgins, charged with 65 counts of child sexual abuse
  • Medical Practitioner at Eldene Surgery in Swindon Suspended
  • Vaginal mesh claims: 5 questions you need to ask
  • Cerebra Head Awareness Week
  • BBC panorama exposes evidence of cover-ups of sexual abuse in the cadets
  • Children Still at Risk of Abuse in Jersey
  • STEP Private Client Awards 2017/18
  • Volunteers Week – Wednesday 7 June 2017
  • Enable Law Join Group B Strep Support’s Legal Panel
  • Ex-Newcastle youth coach George Ormond faces sex charges
  • Professional Football Clubs Failing to Respond to Abuse Inquiry
  • Enable Law to host Kerry Underwood PI reforms seminars
  • Michelmores Medical Negligence team joins Enable Law
  • Foot Anstey launches standalone medical negligence practice
  • Breast Surgeon Carried Out Unnecessary Operations: What we can learn from the trial of Ian Paterson
  • *Updated* Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into care provided to individuals with learning disabilities at St Andrew’s Hospital
  • Consent for Medical Treatment: Recent Case Law
  • Sunday Times speaks out against “natural birth bullies”
  • Foot Anstey investigate allegations of neglect and abuse at Clinton House
  • Football clubs under scrutiny in light of recent allegations of sexual abuse
  • Former football coach Barry Bennell has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with child sex offences.
  • Foot Anstey opens new office in southampton and expands residential developer offering
  • Tough tribunal decision welcomed by group action solicitor and victim of disgraced surgeon Rob Jones
  • New Government Compensation Scheme Launched for Children Injured at Birth

Team Members

• Rob Antrobus
• Michelle Biddulph
• Mike Bird
• Stacey Bryant
• Alison McClure
• Kym Provan
• Huw Ponting
• Paul Sankey
• Claire Stoneman
• John White
• Asha Beswetherick
• Justin Goodman
• Andrew Harnett
• Tim Bennett
• Tim Jones
• Jackie Linehan
• Stewart Young
• Anna-Claire Marks
• Alex McKnight
• Katja Robins
• Paula Barnes
• Patricia Wakeford
• Patricia Wass
• Eleanor Armstrong
• Craig Ford
• Dan Isaac
• Claire Leslie
• Frances Letchford
• Katherine Moyse
• Ceri-Ann Taylor
• Gary Walker
• Caroline Featherby
• Caroline Frean
• Bethan Phillips
• Julia Prior
• Nicola Rawlinson-Weller
• Pamela-Jane Riley
• James Wood
• Charlotte Morgan
• Laura Scantlebury
• Rachel Thain
• Sue Upton
• Nikki Bedford
• Kerry Blomerus
• Julie Donovan
• Laura Endean
• Kayleigh Fowle
• Deborah Hepple
• Helen Horne
• Morgan Lister
• Hannah Loosemore
• Elizabeth O'Mahony
• Johnathan Steventon-Kiy
• Katy Wood
• Emily Steel
• Laura Wallace
• Brooke Manning
• Laura Williamson
• Abigail Moore
• Heidi Grute
• Helena Henderson
• Jennifer Janes
• Mark Bamsey
• Shannon McCullough
• Nikki Millings
• Jacqui O'Rourke
• Maddie Bools
• Kelli Carwithen
• Kieran Grainger
• Alex Renton
• Joanna Rzepecka
• Oliver Smythe
• Vernon Du Preez
• Lou Pritchard

FAQs

• Can I move my case to Enable Law?
• What is a Group Action/Group Litigation?
• Will the press or media know about the claim?
• Will I have to talk about what happened to me?
• What is Clinical Negligence?
• How do you prove a claim?
• How much compensation will I receive for serious injury or negligence?
• Will my claim be successful?
• How much will it cost me to bring a claim? How will I be able to fund my claim?
• Why choose Enable Law?
• How long do I have to bring a medical negligence claim and what is the time limit?
• Do I have to choose a solicitor near where I live?
• Will my abuse claim be successful?
• Roles and responsibilities of a Deputy
• How long will the case last?
• What do I need to provide in order to bring a compensation claim?
• What will you do with my data?
• Can I see my medical records?
• Does claiming for compensation take money from the NHS?
• Why do things go wrong?
• Will I have to go to court and give evidence?
• Will I get an apology?
• Will my doctor treat me any differently if I bring a claim against him? Will a claim affect my treatment?
• If I disagree with the expert report can the case still continue?
• What happens if I die before my claim concludes?
• Can I get a Doctor struck off or take disciplinary action?
• What can I do if I think my medical records are wrong?

Guides

• Maternity scandals in the UK - a recent history
• CICA Claims - What you need to know
• Attorneyship and Deputyship: What is the difference?
• The Coronavirus Act - What has changed for the mental capacity sector?
• Women's health - #betterforwomen
• A Client Guide to Birth Injury Claims
• A Client Guide to Claiming Damages for Clinical Negligence
• Deputyship - International Aspects
• A Client Guide to Inquests and Factsheet for Families
• A Client Guide to Negligence Claim Finance
• A Client Guide to Deputyships

Departments

• Abuse
• Costing
• Medical Negligence
• Mental Capacity
• Personal Injury

Job Positions

• Associate
• Chartered Legal Executive
• Consultant
• Court of Protection Accounts Manager
• Court of Protection Accounts Senior
• Court of Protection Executive
• Legal Director
• Litigation Executive
• Managing Associate
• Nurse Advisor
• Paralegal
• Partner
• Senior Associate
• Solicitor
• Trainee Chartered Legal Executive