Angharad Hughes

Practice Areas

Angharad has developed great expertise in a wide range of clinical negligence claims and now focuses on cases involving serious injuries to patients, including brain damage and spinal injuries.

In 2020 Angharad obtained compensation totalling over £18 million for a child with severe physical disabilities caused by mismanagement of newborn jaundice, which led to extensive brain damage. She has previously settled cerebral palsy cases for sums exceeding £10 million. Angharad has also successfully settled a large number of cauda equina syndrome claims, with compensation settlements for her clients including £1.75 million and £1.5 million. Angharad has experience in a wide range of other serious injury claims and in 2019 obtained £2.35 million for a woman who required a below the knee leg amputation after appalling failures in diagnosis and treatment of cellulitis.

Angharad has also more recently settled a number of spinal injury cases, one settling for £1.7m in June 2023. Angharad also resolved a complex case relating to birth injury due to failure to manage maternal sepsis in the sum of approximately £10million.

Career

Trained at Abney Garsden McDonald Solicitors, qualified in 2008. JMW Solicitors 2007 to date, initially as a trainee before progressing to partner in 2015.

Professional Memberships

Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel, APIL member

Personal

Walking her two dogs and being part of her partner’s microbrewery business as well as travel.