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Injury lawyer details for Jennifer Hawkes

Injury lawyer - Injury lawyer details for Jennifer Hawkes

Tel: 01892 510000

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Injury lawyer - senior litigator

About Jennifer Hawkes

Jennifer is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and has Senior Litigator status with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). She specialises in clinical negligence and personal injury cases and represents families at Inquests.

Jennifer’s medical negligence claims have involved a wide variety of issues, some examples include:

  • Obstetric and birthing injuries
  • Stillbirth and neonatal deaths
  • Gynaecological injuries
  • Fatal accidents
  • Delays in diagnosis of cancer (including breast, ovarian and bowel cancer)
  • Negligent surgical treatment including hernia, bowel and a variety of orthopaedic surgeries
  • Negligent nursing treatment leading to pressure sores
  • Negligent plastic surgery including breast reconstruction
  • Psychiatric injury and secondary victim claims
  • Chronic pain
     

Client stories and notable cases

Mrs L v Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

The claimant suffered severe psychiatric injury after a failure by the trust’s anaesthetist to follow infection control procedures; the anaesthetist failed to change his gloves after a procedure on another patient.  Liability was admitted.  The claimant had to undergo tests to rule out HIV and was unable to return to her job as a business development manager.

Damages recovered: £487,000

Miss N v East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (issued in the High Court)

A claim arising out of negligent elbow surgery leading to chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS).

Damages recovered: £125,000

Mrs O (on behalf of Mr O deceased) v East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (issued in the High Court)

A claim on behalf of a widow whose 77 year old husband died after being misdiagnosed with rectal cancer.  Jennifer represented the family at the Inquest where the Coroner concluded that further deeper biopsies could have revealed that a rectal mass was not cancerous.  The deceased underwent chemo-radiotherapy and surgery and died. 

Damages recovered £65,000

Mr H (on behalf of Mrs H deceased) v Medway NHS Foundation Trust

The deceased was diagnosed with a recurrence of bowel cancer and underwent complicated bowel resection surgery.  She died in the days after surgery due to vomiting which caused aspiration and cardiac arrest.  Jennifer represented the husband of the deceased at the 2 day Inquest which concluded that the deceased had suffered abdominal sepsis and that a failure to keep her nil by mouth (and in fact to allow her to intake some 2.5 litres of fluid on the day she died) had led to the aspiration.  Expert evidence obtained after the Inquest concluded that the deceased would have had a very limited life expectancy in any event.

Damages recovered £30,000

Mrs T v Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust (issued)

This claim involved a delay in carrying out caesarean section leading to a breech delivery.  Mother was told that her baby had died and was asked to give her permission to stop resuscitation attempts.  The baby was then noted to be breathing and was taken for cooling.  The mother suffered PTSD.

Damages recovered: £27,000

Mrs I v NHS Commissioning Board (issued)

The claimant underwent surgery to repair an epigastric hernia.  The surgeon also advised that he could perform surgery to reduce lax abdominal skin which was described as a “therapeutic abdominoplasty”.  The surgeon failed to repair the hernia and left the claimant with permanent abdominal scarring.

Damages recovered: £22,500

Mr Y v Countrywide Estates Limited

The claimant suffered an Achilles tendon injury as well as psychiatric injury as a result of the failure of the defendant to replace a tree in a metal grid outside his home.

Damages recovered: £89,000

Mr P v  Prospect Commercial Limited

The claimant suffered a spinal fracture as a result of a road traffic accident.  He spent a number of months in a back brace but made a good recovery.  He had some ongoing back pain which affected his job as a refuse collector.

Damages recovered: £59,000

Profile

Jennifer qualified as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives in 2011, having gained  valuable experience in personal injury and clinical negligence work since 2005.  She is married with two children, enjoys distance running and is a keen cook.


APIL membership: Legal Practitioner  - What does this mean?

APIL accreditation: Senior Litigator

Other memberships: Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA)

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Jennifer Hawkes
THOMSON SNELL & PASSMORE LLP
Heathervale House
2-4 Vale Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
TN1 1DJ
Tel: 01892 510000
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