Kelly Hall

Kelly is a solicitor in the Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury team.  Kelly read law at Exeter University and qualified as a solicitor in March 2003, having completed her training at Evill and Coleman Solicitors.  She joined Kingsley Napley in May 2004.

Clinical Negligence

Kelly is an experienced clinical negligence solicitor who acts for seriously injured adults and children. Her caseload includes cases arising out of injuries sustained as a result of gynaecological, obstetric, neo-natal, surgical and orthopedic treatment. Kelly also pursues fatal accident claims for bereaved relatives arising out of the death of a loved one due to negligent medical treatment. Kelly deals with claims arising out of NHS and private treatment.

Kelly has particular interests in vascular and nerve injuries, cases arising out of general practitioner negligence and in the quantification of damages.

Healthcare related Public Law

Kelly assists bereaved families in relation to inquests arising out of deaths as a result of medical treatment.

From November 2010 until its conclusion on 1 December 2011, Kelly worked with Kingsley Napley's Public Law team representing Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) and the Patients' Association as Core Participants in the high profile Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry, chaired by Robert Francis QC.

Examples of work/cases

• Quantifying and assisting on Alison Moore’s successful Court of Appeal case of Lillywhite v University Hospitals NHS Trust which related to the failure of doctors to identify a serious brain abnormality in utero
• Quantifying the claim of a young man who sustained Cerebral Palsy as a result of the mismanagement of his mother’s labour.
• Obtaining a settlement for an infant claimant arising out of burns sustained as a result of negligently performed phototherapy treatment for neonatal jaundice. 
• Obtaining a settlement for a young woman who sustained facial scarring as a result of inappropriate laser treatment of a birthmark
• Settling a claim for a man who was left significantly disabled as a result of negligently performed hip surgery
• Quantifying and assisting in the claim of a woman rendered significantly disabled as a result of two negligent knee operations.
• Quantifying and assisting in a claim for a woman left significantly disabled due to complications of a sub-arachnoid haemorrhage

Articles / Blogs:

• April 2012: Doctor negligence: Possible negligence in delayed GP referrals for suspected cancer
• March 2012: Surgery: Botched Surgery Blamed for Patients Deaths
• February 2012: Personal Injury: cost cutting - a factor in fatal road accident?
• February 2012: Medical Negligence: hospital patients 16% more likely to die at the weekend
• April 2012: Delays in diagnosis: ovarian cancer

Associations:

• The Law Society
• Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA)
• Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)