Nina Unthank

Practice Areas

Nina specialises in high value and complex clinical negligence and personal injury disputes.

Recent clinical negligence cases include matters involving alleged failure to diagnose and treat cauda equina syndrome, alleged failure to treat spinal infection, alleged failure to diagnose coarctation of the aorta leading to stroke, birth related injuries including shoulder dystocia, hysterectomy and brain damage, alleged failure to provide reasonable antibiotic therapy following surgery resulting in meningitis and significant brain injury, alleged hypoxic brain injury after undergoing a Whipple’s procedure, alleged failure to diagnose and treat breast cancer, alleged negligent performance of an open sigmoid colectomy procedure, alleged negligently performed hip replacement, alleged failure to diagnose and treat lung cancer, alleged delayed diagnosis of caecal cancer, lingual nerve damage arising from an allegedly negligent extraction of a wisdom tooth, failure to treat meningitis, post- operative care following pharyngeal pouch operation, alleged failures by opticians and the ambulance service and fatal accidents.

Recent personal injury cases include acting for insurers in claims involving fundamental dishonesty both in the fields of road traffic and employers’ liability, disability, defending claims arising out of accidents on inflatable water rides, inflatable table football, ski slopes and ice skating rinks, chronic pain, accidents at work and tripping claims.

Career

Nina was called to the Bar in 2001; She was a Middle Temple, Astbury Scholar.

Downing College, Cambridge (MA Law); Inns of Court School of Law (BVC), Warwick University (BA History).

Professional Memberships

PIBA, ELBA, COMBAR, LCLCBA, Middle Temple.