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Provided by Nicola Wainwright
Practice Areas
20 years’ experience practising exclusively in clinical negligence. Specialises in cases of serious injury, particularly those resulting in brain damage and cerebral palsy. Also vast experience in delays in diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases, including meningitis. In 2018 Nicola achieved one of the highest settlements in England and Wales for case of its type for a 9-year-old-girl with permanent brain damage due to misuse of forceps. Successful settlements in 2021 include a six figure sum for an 18 year old brain damaged at birth and securing an admission of liability for a boy with severe brain damage due to misdiagnosis of meningitis.
Career
Qualified in 1997 after training with Pictons. Specialised in personal injury and clinical negligence at Davies & Partners, Birmingham. Joined Leigh Day in 2000, practising exclusively in clinical negligence, becoming partner in 2006. Joined JMW Solicitors as a partner in April 2020, heading up London clinical negligence team.
Professional Memberships
Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel APIL Senior Litigator and Co-ordinator of Special Interest Group on Procedure AvMA FOCIS (Forum of Complex Injury Solicitors) Westminster & Holborn Law Society, Pro Bono and CSR Committee. Association of Women Solicitors, London
Publications
Westlaw’s online encyclopaedia of UK law section on clinical negligence.
Chambers Review
UK
Nicola Wainwright acts on a range of brain injury claims, such as those arising from obstetric negligence and mismanagement of infections. She also advises on sepsis and delayed diagnosis claims.
Nicola Wainwright is a clinical negligence lawyer with a particular focus on women and families in pregnancy and maternity cases.She has acted for numerous families who are socially and economically disadvantaged and often not well educated so find legal processes particularly difficult.She supports the charity GBS Support, helping them raise awareness of group B Strep. She also works with the charity Meningitis Now and is a trustee for Encephalitis International.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nicola is very knowledgeable and experienced."
"Nicola is tenacious and effective."
"Nicola is always very clued into the case and stays on top of things."
"Nicola mastered the complex issues of the case and explained them clearly to us as they gradually emerged and developed."
"Nicola speaks with empathy, yet is tenacious in her approach. She has a comprehensive knowledge of the law, yet is able to articulate this in a way we can understand."
"She is a fighter and a warrior for her clients and I like working with her. Her advice is robust and sensible but she will go to war for her clients. She is realistic and tells you how it is."
"Nicola gave us the time to tell her our emotional story. We were never rushed or made to feel we were a burden. Nicola speaks with empathy yet is tenacious in approach."
"Nicola dealt with very difficult clients really skillfully and left no stone unturned. She got her analysis of where we ended up absolutely spot-on."
"Nicola is very knowledgeable and experienced."
"Nicola is tenacious and effective."
"Nicola is always very clued into the case and stays on top of things."
"Nicola mastered the complex issues of the case and explained them clearly to us as they gradually emerged and developed."
"Nicola speaks with empathy, yet is tenacious in her approach. She has a comprehensive knowledge of the law, yet is able to articulate this in a way we can understand."
"She is a fighter and a warrior for her clients and I like working with her. Her advice is robust and sensible but she will go to war for her clients. She is realistic and tells you how it is."
"Nicola gave us the time to tell her our emotional story. We were never rushed or made to feel we were a burden. Nicola speaks with empathy yet is tenacious in approach."
"Nicola dealt with very difficult clients really skillfully and left no stone unturned. She got her analysis of where we ended up absolutely spot-on."
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