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£150,000 for Myocardial Infarction and Hypoxic Brain Injury

27th May 2022 – Our client Mr B was told he needed an urgent coronary angioplasty after having a diagnostic angiogram in November 2015. Continue reading this article

Archie Batten’s Inquest resumes tomorrow

23rd May 2022 – The Inquest into the death of Archie Batten, who was born on Sunday 1 st September 2019, and lived for just 27 minutes, is due to resume tomorrow at the Archbishop’s Palace in Maidstone before the Assistant Coroner for North East Kent Sonia Hayes.Continue reading this article

Nick Fairweather becomes President of Kent Law Society

23rd May 2022 – We are delighted to announce that Nick Fairweather today became the 203rd President of Kent Law Society.Continue reading this article

Trust admits that negligent failure to prevent deterioration of a sacral pressure sore led to death of 71 year old man

4th May 2022 – Our Client, Mrs S, from Canterbury, Kent came to us following the sad loss of her father, Mr C, in August 2019. Mr C had reduced mobility following a discectomy in 2017 and he was therefore largely wheelchair bound. As a result of this had a heightened risk of pressure ulcers which was suitably managed by his community healthcare team whilst he was living at home.Continue reading this article

£115,000 recovered for re-opened Provisional Damages claim

28th March 2022 – Our client, a 21-year-old woman from Ashford, had previously brought a claim (via her mother as litigation friend) arising out of a failure to diagnose congenital hip dysplasia shortly after her birth. Continue reading this article

Inquest into death of baby Archie Batten starts in Maidstone

14th March 2022 – Archie Batten was born late in the evening at the QEQM Hospital Margate on Sunday 1 st September 2019 and died shortly afterward at just 27 minutes of age. He was the first child of parents Rachel Higgs and Andrew Batten.Continue reading this article

£115,000 recovered for botched surgery resulting in permanent stoma

16th February 2022 – Our client, a 56-year-old man from Kent, has been left with a permanent stoma as a result of post-operative complications following an operation to remove his rectal cancer which took place at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford on 21.08.2017.Continue reading this article

£14,000,000 Cerebral Palsy claim settlement approved by High Court

10th December 2021 – Our client suffered cerebral palsy due to a hospital in Kent mismanaging his mother’s labour and his delivery.Continue reading this article

Archie Powell Inquest Conclusion:- QEQM’s admitted negligent delay in administering antibiotics caused Archie’s death

3rd December 2021 – Archie Powell, died on 14th February 2019 at just 4 days old after a failure to administer life-saving antibiotics in a timely manner at QEQM. An Inquest has heard a number of criticisms of the care he received following his birth. Continue reading this article

£250,000 for Delayed Diagnosis of Cardiomyopathy

30th November 2021 – Our client, a young female from Herne Bay underwent an echocardiogram in 2012 which identified left bundle branch block and reduced ejection fraction in her left ventricle (35%) which was not acted on by the reviewing physician Dr Barton of East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.Continue reading this article