Claire Hurrell

Practice Areas

Claire has practiced exclusively in claimant clinical negligence since qualification and has over 13 years of experience in this area. She has come to particularly specialise in the following areas of clinical negligence:

• Cases of all kinds involving obstetric care including:

- the representation of children who have sustained life altering brain injury as a result of negligence in the management of their birth.

- acting for bereaved parents who have lost a child arising from obstetric negligence.

- claims on behalf of women who have sustained gynaecological and psychiatric injury as a result of obstetric mismanagement.

• Cases involving a fatality more generally, particularly involving infection and sepsis.

• Inquests arising from potential medical negligence.

• Cases involving a psychiatric element, particularly secondary victim claims.

Career

Claire qualified as a Solicitor in 2008 in Northern Ireland before moving to the South West of England in January 2009. In May 2009 she was admitted to the roll of Solicitors in England and Wales.

Since 2009 Claire has worked in Claimant clinical negligence, initially at Parlett Kent (a tier 1 niche Claimant clinical negligence practice) between 2009 and 2013, and, following the buyout of Parlett Kent, from 2013 onwards at Barcan Woodward (now Barcan+Kirby).

Claire joined Barcan+Kirby in April 2013. She received the Law Society’s Specialist Clinical Negligence accreditation in November 2013 and has been an accredited member since that time. Claire was promoted to Associate in 2014, to Senior Associate in 2016 and to Partner in 2017. Since 2017 Claire has been a member of AvMA’s specialist clinical negligence panel.

Professional Memberships

AvMA – Action against Medical Accidents – Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel Member

Member of the Law Society Clinical Negligence Accreditation Scheme

Personal

In her free time Claire enjoys reading, writing and board games.