Richard Lodge

Richard is an associate in the Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Department at Kingsley Napley LLP.  He joined the department in 2003 and qualified as a solicitor in April 2005.  Prior to joining Kingsley Napley Richard read law at King’s College, London before completing the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law.

Richard conducts a varied caseload and has a particular interest in spinal injuries, orthopaedic claims, cases involving hepatobiliary medicine and the law of quantum.  As well as running a varied caseload, Richard advises clients post settlement on Local Authority and Primary Care Trust funding issues. 

Examples of some of Richard’s recently concluded successful cases include:

• A claim for a man who sustained a retroperitoneal perforation during an ERCP procedure (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) for suspected gall stones within the common bile duct.
• A claim for a woman who was rendered tetraplegic following surgery to stablise a fracture to her C2 vertebra.
• A claim for loss of financial dependency for two young adults following the death of their mother from a Grade 4 sacral pressure sore. 
• A claim for a 60 year old man who sustained a subtle brain injury resulting in permanent cognitive impairments which affected his ability to continue working as a QC and part time Recorder (Richard assisted Dr Jock Mackenzie with this case).
• A claim arising from the death of a 21-year old man in 2007 as a consequence of the failure to diagnose and treat pulmonary emboli (Richard assisted Dr Jock Mackenzie with this case). 

Richard has recently published articles in the Solicitors’ Journal on disclosure within the Coroners’ Court, and the Personal Injury Law Journal on interim payments. 

Professional Societies

• APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers), Secretary Damages Special Interest Group
• AvMA (Action against Medical Accidents)
• The Law Society

Recent and Notable Cases

• MJT (1) CHBS (2) -v- Professor Roger Motson LTLPI 11/5/2012 (Fatal Accidents Act claim following hepatabiliary surgery)
• PG(1) LG(2) -v- Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board LTLPI 24/1/2012 (wrongful birth claim; failure to diagnose semi-lobar holoprosencephaly while carrying out fetal scans)
• Harrison (1) Harrison (2) -v- West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust LTLPI 27/6/2011 (Fatal Accidents Act and psychiatric injury claim arising from the death of a 21-year old male)
• Gibbons -v- Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust LTLPI 14/1/2011 (60 year old male, brain injury sustained following prolonged hypoxia)
• ZQ (By her Mother and Litigation Friend SK) -v- West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust LTLPI 11/6/2010 (16 year old female, quadriplegic cerebral palsy)
• RL (By her Mother and Litigation Friend JL) -v- North West London Strategic Health Authority LTLPI 25/11/2009 (31 year old female, athetoid spastic cerebral palsy)
• SG -v- Heatherwood & Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Trust LTLPI 29/9/2009 (10 year old female, dystonic athetoid cerebral palsy)

Articles

• "Continue to advance with caution", Personal Injury Law Journal, issue 100, November 2011
• "Calculation of Multipliers", Personal Injury Law Journal, issue 95, February 2011
• "Advance with caution", Personal Injury Law Journal, issue 88, September 2010
• "Open Communications", Solicitors Journal Personal Injury Focus (April 2010)