Injury lawyer details for Anna Higham

About Anna Higham

Anna is a Partner at Hugh James (Potter Rees Dolan, a Hugh James business) representing claimants in complex and high-value clinical negligence claims which have resulted in catastrophic brain or spinal injuries. She represents individuals, including adults who lack capacity to litigate, and children.

Anna acts in a variety of cases including those involving delays in diagnosing spinal injuries such as fractures or abscesses; misdiagnoses of cauda equina syndrome; delays in treating meningitis; misdiagnoses of strokes and failures properly to treat pressure sores in patients with pre-existing spinal cord injuries. Anna also represents children who have suffered injury at birth or during the neonatal period. Anna also specialises in surgical negligence, fatal claims and a variety of other injuries.  

Anna is commended in the Chambers directory as an ‘Associate to Watch’ and "a really creative thinker" (2022) with "an immense eye for detail" (2023). Anna is also recommended in the Legal 500 as having "a sharp mind combined with an accessible manner" (2022) and a "very talented solicitor with encyclopaedic knowledge of spinal injury cases" (2023). Clients have praised her ability to explain complex issues in ways that are easy to understand.