Sahida Patel

Partner and Head of Birth Injury

Sahida is a Partner and heads the Birth Injury Team in Leeds. She has over 27 years’ experience in representing claimants in complex and high value medical negligence claims, often involving birth injuries, cerebral palsy or other brain injuries.

She frequently represents claimants achieving multi million-pound settlements. They include children who have cerebral palsy of varying severity as a result of events surrounding their birth, claims involving children who suffer with Kernicterus causing a brain injury as a result of undiagnosed neonatal jaundice and brain injuries caused by untreated hypoglycaemia as recent examples.

Sahida is an accredited member of the Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel as well as a member of the AvMA (Action for Victims of Medical Accidents) panel, a quality mark for those lawyers who place clients at the centre of everything they do and who are prepared to go that extra mile.

Sahida has consistently been ranked as a leading individual The Legal 500 which recognises top performers as well as being recognised as a Specialist Practitioner in Chambers and Partners, another Legal directory that lists the best lawyers and legal practices.

Sahida was also nominated as Lawyer of the Year 2023 and 2024 in the Insurance Category by the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse awards. She was also shortlisted in 2024 for the Yorkshire Lawyer Awards under the “Partner of the Year” category.