Nadia Whittaker
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 5 : Clinical Negligence
Band 5
About
Provided by Nadia Whittaker
Practice Areas
Clinical Negligence, Professional Negligence (including medico-legal experts), Personal Injury (including disease litigation and historic sexual abuse), Civil Fraud and Inquests.
Career
Nadia’s regular workload covers claims in obstetric, neurosurgical, orthopaedic, anaesthetic, oncological, bariatric, ophthalmic, psychiatric, emergency medicine and ambulance services. She specialises in allegations of dishonesty (Radia v Marks [2022] EWHC 145 (QB)), informed consent (Ollosson v Lee [2019] EWHC 784 (QB)), catastrophic injuries and dependency claims. She represented at an inquest a family of Francesca Whyatt, a 17-year-old detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 at the Priory Roehampton hospital, who was allowed to tie a fatal ligature. The Jury concluded that death was contributed to by neglect. Recently, Nadia successfully represented clients in applications concerning wasted costs (Robinson v Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust and Mercier [2023] EWHC 21 (KB)), disapplication of Qualified One-Way Costs regime (Waterfield & 25 others v Dentality Ltd and others [2020] 11 WLUK 223) and contempt of Court (Iddon v Warner [2021] EWHC 587 (QB) where she secured a 7-month custodial sentence for contempt of Court). Nadia is a trial advocate known for her analytical and pragmatic approach and being adept at dealing efficiently and tactfully with highly sensitive issues. Her rigorous analysis of the evidence permits her to secure optimal outcomes in highly contested cases, often against Leading Counsel.
Professional Memberships
PIBA
Publications
PI Focus Case report: the doctrine of informed consent (May 2023) and Loss of Life: suicide litigation (September 2022)
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