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Clinical Negligence: A Practitioner's Handbook 2nd Edition
Author(s): Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel (Author), Richard Lodge (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 9 Mar. 2026
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 528 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198947658
- ISBN-13: 9780198947653
Book Description
Practical guidance is given throughout on matters such as client care, file management, case management (maintaining effective relationships between solicitors, counsel, witnesses, and experts), and funding and running cases profitably (including billing on account and the costs recovery process.) The text features a useful set of precedents; templates, useful websites, and further reading specific to clinical negligence practice are also included.
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About the Author
Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel KC is a barrister specialising in clinical negligence and personal injury claims. Lizanne has a reputation for representing claimants with highly complex claims for catastrophic injury. In clinical negligence, she has particular expertise and experience in birth damage and neonatal claims but acts in claims arising in a wide range of circumstances. Lizanne's work also involves multi-party actions. She acted for over 700 Claimants in the litigation against Mr Ian Paterson, Spire Healthcare, and HEFT. Lizanne is now monitoring the distribution of the fund for further claims arising out of Mr Paterson's surgery. She has also been instructed in a number of other multi- party actions including the Winterbourne View claims and the Aston Hall Hospital claims.
Richard Lodge is a solicitor and partner at Kingsley Napley LLP specialising in clinical negligence litigation. Richard has a broad experience of clinical negligence litigation with a particular emphasis on catastrophic injury claims involving brain and spinal injury. He is a Law Society Accredited Specialist in Clinical Negligence and a member of the AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence panel. Richard is recognised as a leading partner in Legal 500 and ranked in Chambers and Partners. Richard has previously published articles in various journals including The Solicitor's Journal and The Expert Witness.
