Claim - Pregnancy/birth injuries Medical Negligence | Fairweather Solicitors LLP

£18,000 Recovered for Failure to Correctly Suture the Left Uterine Angle during a C-Section

2nd June 2021 – Our client, a 42-year-old woman from West Sussex, underwent an elective C-section delivery of her second child at Worthing Hospital in September 2018.Continue reading this article

Coroner rules that Article 2 is engaged in Archie Batten’s Inquest Proceedings

9th March 2021 – We have previously reported on the case of Archie Batten who tragically died at just 27 minutes of age at the QEQM Hospital Margate back on Sunday 1st September 2019.Continue reading this article

Fairweathers team up with 7BR to Provide Pro-bono Inquest Representation for two Families who lost their Babies as part of the East Kent Maternity Scandal

8th March 2021 –

We are delighted to announce that we have managed to arrange Inquest representation for two of the families we represent who tragically lost their babies due to admitted failings at the QEQM Hospital Margate. Continue reading this article

£17,500 for Retained Placenta

9th September 2020 – Our client Mrs B from Staffordshire gave birth to her second child in December 2014.
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£15,000 for Delayed Delivery Leading to Traumatic Birth

18th June 2019 – Our client, Ms T, brought a clinical negligence claim as a result of the substandard treatment that she received during the delivery of her first child at the Darent Valley Hospital, near Dartford, Kent on 23.06.2016.

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£135,000 recovered for psychological injuries caused by delayed birth trauma

28th Sept 2018 – Our client, a 38-year-old woman from Canterbury, Kent, suffered significant psychological injuries in consequence of a traumatic birth of her second child.
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£50,000 recovered for still birth

Our client, a 48 year old woman from Ashford, Kent, became pregnant with her second child and was treated by the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.Continue reading this article

Stillborn Baby – Case discussed by Nick Fairweather on BBC Radio Kent

There has been a great deal of media interest in this case where Medway Maritime Hospital failed to transfer this Client’s Stillborn baby girl to the mortuary for 6 days.Continue reading this article

Stillborn Baby – Case covered by BBC South East

There has been a great deal of media interest in this case where Medway Maritime Hospital failed to transfer this Client’s Stillborn baby girl to the mortuary for 6 days.
During this time this baby had not been placed in a cold cot.Continue reading this article

Our client ‘Lisa’ talks to Radio Kent about her £2,000,000+ compensation settlement in the context of her son’s disabilities

This morning our client ‘Lisa’ was featured on Radio Kent. Her claim for damages has just been settled for over £2,000,000. When pregnant with her third child, those treating Lisa, at the QEQM Hospital, Margate, Kent, failed to property heed appearances on her ante-natal scans which were indicative of disability and should have been investigated. Her son, Reece, was born with profound disabilities subsequently.Continue reading this article