Anita Jewitt
Anita leads the Medical Negligence department at Stewarts across our London and Leeds offices, specialising in high value, complex medical negligence claims. Anita has extensive experience representing clients who have sustained life changing injuries as a consequence of medical negligence. As Head of the Clinical Negligence department, Anita has responsibility for ensuring the department provides outstanding levels of service and expertise to our clients. Anita has notable experience in representing children who have sustained a brain injury as a result of failings in their care. Anita also has significant experience in representing adults who have sustained a spinal cord injury, brain injury or other serious injuries, such as an amputation. Anita has experience in cross jurisdictional issues, and has represented clients where local care, accommodation and equipment was costed in North America, Australasia and Europe. Anita feels strongly that the best team needs to be put around the client in order to help unlock the key issues in a case as quickly as possible, in order to secure funds so clients can implement a rehabilitation package to help improve long term outcomes and promote independence. Anita acts solely for claimants who have sustained a catastrophic injury as a result of medical negligence. Anita has notable experience in representing children who have sustained a brain injury following failures around the time of their birth (obstetric, midwifery and neonatal claims). This has been the mainstay of Anita’s work for several years and she is recognised as being a leading individual in this practice area. Anita also has significant experience in: Spinal cord injury claims Amputation cases Adult brain injury cases Paediatric brain injury cases (birth injury claims, but also neurological injury cases secondary to meningitis/sepsis/encephalitis/neonatal hypoglycaemia and sodium valproate/epilim cases) · Stewarts Law LLP
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Head of Clinical Negligence at Stewarts Law LLP, leading the Medical Negligence department across the London and Leeds offices and specialising in high-value, complex claimant clinical negligence cases. Acts solely for claimants with catastrophic injuries and has extensive experience in paediatric (birth) brain injury, adult brain injury, spinal cord injury and amputation, including cross-jurisdictional costing of care and rehabilitation planning.