Clinical Negligence: Mainly Claimant
UK Guide 2025 : North West
Band 3
About
Provided by Bond Turner
Bond Turner proudly houses one of the North West's largest and most respected Clinical Negligence teams, renowned for their expertise and commitment to justice.
Bond Turner’s Clinical Negligence team specialises in a wide range of cases, with a particular focus on birth injury cases, amputation claims, delay in the cancer diagnosis, brain injuries, fatalities and group actions. We deal with cases involving minors and vulnerable adults and pride ourselves in helping hundreds of people get access to justice and help in their recovery.
Director Sara Stanger leads a strong team of accredited senior lawyers, assisted by junior lawyers and paralegals.
Bond Turner has a national reach, working with clients across England and Wales and facilitates home and hospital visits whenever required, building a relationship with each individual claimant and often their families at what is the most difficult time in their lives.
In addition to litigation, our teams have a focus on rehabilitation and often recommend and signpost claimants to trusted organisations and facilities that can support, including case managers and financial advisors. This ensures that the claimant receives a full service which is focused on their best interests. The firm has built up a network of key contacts that are among the best available and maintain a good relationship with other third parties including lawyers and barristers.
Chambers Review
Bond Turner has a well-regarded clinical negligence team that is regularly sought out by a wide range of clients and is adept at handling cases involving minors and vulnerable adults. The firm has expertise in matters involving catastrophic birth injuries, wrongful birth claims, brain injuries, delayed diagnosis and cauda equina syndrome-related matters. It also has strong expertise in taking on complex cases involving serious loss.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Bond Turner's team are friendly, efficient and courteous. The support team are also very helpful."
"The Bond Turner team is wonderfully impressive in the clinical negligence claimant space."
"This organisation demonstrates expertise. The wider team members all work effectively, and communication is always exceptional and responsive - the client service is exceptional."
"Bond Turner's team are friendly, efficient and courteous. The support team are also very helpful."
"The Bond Turner team is wonderfully impressive in the clinical negligence claimant space."
"This organisation demonstrates expertise. The wider team members all work effectively, and communication is always exceptional and responsive - the client service is exceptional."
Notable Practitioners
Helen Neville is highly adept at birth and psychiatric injury claims. She has additional experience handling group actions.
"Helen has great empathy for her clients and she is focused on getting good outcomes for them."
"She is very experienced and very knowledgeable. She is also very astute and has a great eye for the details of a case."
"Helen is very responsive and very impressive strategically."
Sara Stanger is the head of Bond Turner's clinical negligence department in Liverpool. She acts on behalf of claimants in delayed diagnosis of cancer and surgical negligence claims. She also has further experience handling sensitive informed consent cases.
"Sara is very efficient, hard-working and extremely pleasant to work with."
"My impression is that she is robust in terms of fighting cases and she is not afraid of taking on difficult cases. She will do her best for her clients. She is a tough and effective litigator."
"She is a great ball of enthusiasm and a major pleasure to work with."
"Sara Stanger is very knowledgeable, very committed and very enthusiastic. She is easy to work with for both clients and barristers."