CL Medilaw

Medical negligence and serious personal injury practice

CL Medilaw is a firm of solicitors whose work centres on medical negligence and serious personal injury claims. Its stated aim is to make the legal side of a claim straightforward and to pursue compensation covering the range of a client's needs. The firm presents itself as willing to take on cases other solicitors have rejected and offers a second opinion on existing claims.

For the areas it handles, the firm indicates that free initial advice, No Win No Fee arrangements and help with funding are available.

Clinical negligence specialisms

The practice groups its medical negligence work by type of harm and by the circumstances in which it arose:

• Brain injury: cases linked to brain haemorrhage, cardiac failure, cerebral palsy, meningitis, sepsis, stroke, surgical errors and traumatic brain injury.
• Spinal injury: cauda equina syndrome, spinal cord injury and spinal tumour or infection.
• Amputation: compartment syndrome, diabetes, DVT, gangrene, ischaemia and peripheral arterial disease, meningitis or sepsis, phantom limb pain, prosthetic limbs and osseointegration, and rehabilitation.
• Cancer misdiagnosis: bladder, bowel, breast, cervical, lung, ovarian and testicular cancer.
• Fatal claims: including medical negligence, road traffic accidents, stillbirth or neonatal death and work accidents, alongside grants of probate or letters of administration and inquests.
• Birth injury: cerebral palsy, Erb's palsy, HIE, hip dysplasia, hypoxia, IVH, maternal injury and birth trauma, obstetric haemorrhage, periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), screening errors and genetic disorders, and stillbirth or neonatal death claims.

Serious injury claims

A separate serious injury line covers amputation, brain injury, major trauma, public liability claims, road traffic accidents, spinal injury and work accidents. The firm states that its team is positioned to handle claims following major trauma sustained in an accident.

How the firm describes its approach

CL Medilaw frames its work around the practical and financial consequences of serious injury for the whole family, describing many years of experience helping clients obtain practical solutions, answers, compensation and financial support. It also highlights interim payments as part of its offering, a mechanism relevant to funding care and support while a claim is ongoing.

Client cases cited by the firm

The practice publishes accounts of cases it has handled. These include a high-value head injury claim after an e-bike collision with a van, a second-opinion HIE claim settled against Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust after earlier proceedings brought by another firm were abandoned, a case involving a two-hour delay in diagnosing meningococcal meningitis in a 17-year-old that resulted in permanent brain injury, and a PVL brain injury at birth.

Charitable and community involvement

The firm lists support for a number of organisations, among them the Bobath Centre, Footsteps Foundation, Harry's Hydrocephalus Awareness Trust (Harry's HAT), Headway – The Brain Injury Association, The Motherhood Group, NICE Milestone Club, Peeps HIE and Silverlining. It also reports professional and fundraising activity by members of its team, including free virtual legal clinics held for Peeps HIE and participation in the Brighton Half-Marathon to raise funds for the Chailey Heritage Foundation.

Regulation and contact

The firm's site lists SRA number 620595. Enquiries are handled through a general address and telephone line, and individual team members can also be reached directly.