We are delighted to welcome Danielle Jones and Francesca Beach to Fairweathers Solicitors LLP.Continue reading this article
Two New Paralegals Join Fairweathers’ Medical Negligence Department.
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Fairweathers sponsor Talk It Out
Fairweathers Solicitors LLP, the medical negligence specialists, based at Estuary View in Whitstable are sponsoring and supporting a social group called Talk It Out based in Deal.
Talk It Out is a social group for those who suffer from mental health difficulties and their carers.Continue reading this article
£70,000 recovered for failure to operate on supracondylar (elbow) fracture
Mr L, a 37 year old man from Gillingham, suffered a significant supracondylar fracture in his elbow in April 2011 following an accident whilst playing football.
He was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent, by ambulance and his fracture was identified. He was told that he would require open reduction internal fixation surgery, which would be carried out following a CT scan.Continue reading this article
Breast Cancer Blunder Fatality Case Settles for £330,000
We reported previously (17.12.13:- Breast cancer test result blunder – case settles) on the South London Healthcare NHS Trust admitting liability, in this breast cancer case, for the serious mistakes that took placed at Farnborough Hospital in South London.Continue reading this article
Kent & Canterbury Hospital and Mental Health Trust admit negligently causing young father’s death
We represent the family of Simon Willson, who died on 23.01.10, at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital, aged just 34, when he took his own life by hanging himself with his own belt, within a disabled toilet, following admission to hospital having taken an overdose.Continue reading this article
Sunday Times – Dr Danger left to botch for five years.
Article by James Gillespie Published: 30.03.2014.
The General Medical Council has been accused of allowing a disgraced surgeon who botched a string of operations to “get away with it” after he was permitted to remove his name voluntarily from the medical register.Continue reading this article
Fairweathers sponsor Medway’s KM Big Quiz
Fairweathers Solicitors LLP attended KM Big Quiz tonight.
Over £7,000 was raised which was a record for a Medway quiz event.Continue reading this article
Nick Fairweather slams GMC decision on Dr David Jackson as farcical!
We have just learned that the GMC has allowed disgraced Consultant Surgeon, David Jackson, to remove himself from the Medical Register on a voluntary basis.
The decision came after a GMC panel heard evidence on the issue in private, (excluding the public, including patients and their relatives who were victims of Jackson).Continue reading this article
Maidstone Hospital suspends upper gastrointestinal key-hole surgery after five avoidable deaths
It has been reported in the BBC News that Maidstone Hospital, Kent, has halted gastrointestinal (GI) key-hole surgery for 12 months following the revelation that five deaths could have been avoided.Continue reading this article
Daughter’s death blamed on lack of specialist mental health beds in Kent
Sherry Inkin, mother of Lisa Inkin, who died in April last year aged just 21, when she took her own life by jumping in front of a Tube train, has appeared on Radio Kent this afternoon, alongside Nick Fairweather (who represents Sherry) talking about the factors that she believes caused her daughter’s death.
Lisa suffered with chronic anorexia.Continue reading this article