Injury lawyer details for Tanzeela Aslam

About Tanzeela Aslam

Tanzeela specialises in advising clients who have undergone negligent medical treatment or diagnosis, whilst she also has experience of all types of personal injury claims.

Qualified as both a solicitor and a barrister, Tanzeela is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), as well as an accredited senior litigator.  She also holds a Law Society accreditation as a clinical negligence specialist.  The Law Society only awards the prestigious accolade to legal professionals who meet the highest standards of technical expertise and quality of client service. The accreditation scheme acts as a benchmark for excellence in this complex area of law, guiding people in the right direction for accessing the very best legal advice The recognition means she is best-placed to help those who have suffered the life-changing and damaging effects of medical negligence with recovery and rehabilitation during what is a difficult and emotional time.

Through her personal injury work she has experience in dealing with high value, brain injury, spinal cord injury and amputee claims. She was involved in a case culminating in a settlement of £10.6 million.  

Tanzeela is part of the national mesh team at Thompsons dealing with medical negligence claims for those who have undergone mesh surgery. 

Her Clinical Negligence workload covers: Medical Devices; failure to diagnose; negligent diagnosis; delayed diagnosis; failure to treat; negligent treatment; lack of consent; birth injuries.

Recently concluded cases include: 

• Failure to consider aortic aneurism as part of differential diagnosis resulting in death due to multiple organ failure.
• Negligent re-surfacing during shoulder replacement surgery resulting in a revision and nerve damage.
• Allergic reaction to medication negligently administer as bolus as opposed to Intravenously by infusion.
• CRPS as a result of negligently performed Sympathectomy procedure for Hyperhidrosis.
• Negligent aspiration of pleura resulting in a splenectomy.
• Negligent Total Knee replacement resulting in further surgical procedures, ongoing pain and restricted mobility.
• Negligent Knee surgery involving the ACL anterior cruciate ligament.
• Delay in diagnosis of diaphragmatic defect and herniation of the colon into the chest resulting in a colonic perforation requiring an avoidable bowel resection and extend stay in ITU.
• Delay in diagnosis of throat cancer leading to death.
• Failures to diagnose undisplaced scaphoid wrist fracture resulting in the need for surgery ongoing pain and restricted mobility.
• Failure to diagnose ectopic pregnancy.
• Delay in admission on to Acute Medical Unit (AMU) with further multiple lapses in care resulting in death.
• Multiple attempts to aspirate a pneumothorax resulting in a collapsed lung.
• Loss of vision as a result of being lost to follow up resulting in delay in diagnosis and treatment of Retinal Vein Occlusion.
• Delay in diagnosis of bladder cancer.
• Delay in diagnosis of testicular torsion resulting in an Orchidectomy.
• Paralysis as a result of delay in diagnosis of a T7 wedge fracture.
• Restricted mobility and pain as a result of a delay in diagnosis of a cervical spine fracture.
• Paralysis as a result of delay in diagnosis of spinal abscess.
• Child with pelviureteric junction obstruction lost to follow up resulting in an extended period of suffering and emergency surgical correction of the PUJ as opposed to elective.
• Failure to act upon the report of the CT Aorta Angiogram resulting in a delay in diagnosis of lung cancer.
• Delay in diagnosis of Guillain Barre Syndrome. 
• Vaginal Mesh Implants