
Clinical negligence
Clinical negligence team
Cecily Cameron, partner and head of team, specialises in clinical negligence claims. She has considerable experience of cerebral palsy, Erbs palsy and maternal birth injury claims, in addition to high value fatal cases. She has a particular expertise in gynaecological and neurosurgical injuries, such as cauda equina syndrome. Her team undertakes a wide range of cases, including complaints to professional disciplinary bodies. Cecily also handles serious neurological personal injury cases, including acquired brain injuries and spinal injuries and has completed the Spinal Injuries Association Advanced Training Course for Personal Injury Lawyers. Cecily joined Henmans in October 2000 from Irwin Mitchell in Leeds, and became a partner in 2003. Before training as a lawyer, she was Head of Information & Education Services for Wakefield Health Authority for eight years. This has given her an invaluable insight into the workings of the NHS and the clinical content of her work. Cecily qualified as a solicitor in 1995.
Cecily is a member of the Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel, the AvMA (Action against Medical Accidents) Clinical Negligence Panel, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and the Oxford Medico-Legal Society. Cecily regularly does pro bono work, conducting seminars for organisations in the advice sector, such as Citizens Advice Bureau and ICAS. She is accredited by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority as a specialist clinical negligence practitioner and is co-author with Elizabeth Ann Gumbel QC of Clinical negligence: a practitioner's handbook which was published by Oxford university Press in October 2007.
Susan Booker, associate, specialises in clinical negligence claims. She handles a wide variety of cases, specialising in fatal claims, orthopaedic and birth injury cases, including Erb’s palsy. She has particular expertise in claims involving several defendants and cases where calculating the value of the claim is particularly complicated.
Susan trained at Henmans and qualified in 2000. She is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and the Oxford Medico-Legal Society. She is accredited by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority as a specialist clinical negligence practitioner. She undertakes regular pro bono work at Oxford Citizens' Advice Bureau.
Daniel O'Keeffe, solicitor, specialises in clinical negligence claims; he works with Cecily Cameron assisting on a wide range of cases including complex and high value claims involving serious and lifelong injuries.
Daniel trained with Campbell Courtney & Cooney Solictors in Surrey, where he gained experience of all types of personal injury litigation, including road traffic accidents, tripping, slipping and other public and occupier's liability accidents and accidents at work. On qualification in February 2008, Daniel moved to Henmans LLP to specialise in clinical negligence litigation.
Daniel is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and the Oxford Medico-Legal Society.
