Anita Jewitt

Practice Areas

Anita leads the Clinical Negligence department at Stewarts across our London and Leeds offices, specialising in high value, complex clinical negligence claims.

Anita has extensive experience representing clients who have sustained life changing injuries as a consequence of clinical negligence. As Head of the Clinical Negligence department, Anita has responsibility for ensuring the department provides outstanding levels of service and expertise to our clients.

Anita has notable experience in representing children who have sustained a brain injury as a result of failings in their care. Anita also has significant experience in representing adults who have sustained a spinal cord injury, brain injury or other serious injuries, such as an amputation.

Anita has experience in cross jurisdictional issues, and has represented clients where local care, accommodation and equipment was costed in North America, Australasia and Europe.

Anita feels strongly that the best team needs to be put around the client in order to help unlock the key issues in a case as quickly as possible, in order to secure funds so clients can implement a rehabilitation package to help improve long term outcomes and promote independence.

Career

Prior to joining Stewarts to lead the Clinical Negligence team in 2024, Anita spent 18 years at Irwin Mitchell, having been promoted to partner at seven years qualified, and then adopting a senior role in the department.

Anita started her career at Stewarts whilst at university, working in their Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury departments, before leaving to start her training contract. She has previously worked for niche clinical negligence practice Alexander Harris and has specialised in complex, high value clinical negligence claims for almost the entirety of her career.

Professional Memberships

Anita is an accredited member of the AvMA (Action Against Medical Accidents) specialist Clinical Negligence panel. Anita is also a specialist clinical negligence panel member of APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers). These accreditations are recognised quality marks for lawyers who have significant experience in this field. Anita is also a member of the charity Twins Trust.

Publications

Anita is often invited to speak to media outlets on patient safety issues. Anita feels strongly that lessons ought to be learnt following failures in care in order to avoid a family going through a similar experience in the future.

Personal

Anita has three young boys, including non-identical twins, so life outside of work is busy! In her spare time, Anita enjoys socialising with friends and family over good food and wine, gardening, planning her next holiday (usually somewhere warm), and trying to fit in some exercise along the way. Anita spent many years throughout her childhood in Perth, Western Australia. Anita is proud of her Irish roots, having been born in Dublin, and has a large Irish family.

Experience

Anita acts solely for claimants who have sustained a catastrophic injury as a result of medical negligence.

Anita has notable experience in representing children who have sustained a brain injury following failures around the time of their birth (obstetric, midwifery and neonatal claims). This has been the mainstay of Anita’s work for several years and she is recognised as being a leading individual in this practice area.

Anita also has significant experience in spinal cord injury claims, amputation cases, adult brain injury cases, paediatric brain injury cases (birth injury claims, but also neurological injury cases secondary to meningitis/sepsis/encephalitis/neonatal hypoglycaemia and sodium valproate/epilim cases)