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Kelly Buckley

Kelly is a Partner in the Nottingham NHS Resolution team and has been actively involved in a number of the leading cases included within our submission, in particular [non-publishable matter 1]. Kelly has extensive experience of acting in high value and/or complex clinical negligence claims for NHS bodies including NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts and NHS England along with GPs and privately insured doctors. Kelly has a wealth of understanding of the legal landscape regarding informed consent following her involvement in the leading Court of Appeal case of Shaw v Kovac. She has worked with NHS Trusts and clinicians to provide an insight into this important and developing area of law and medical ethics. See for example our video blog on consent. https://www.brownejacobson.com/health/training-and-resources/training-videos/2018/11/consent-for-clinicians She is one of the team’s mediation champions and has considerable experience of mediating the most complex and sensitive cases. This includes successful resolution of a group action involving multiple patients, a very high value claim where a GP had suffered significant physical harm during childbirth and a teenage suicide case which was covered by BBC’s Panorama programme. · Browne Jacobson LLP

EnglandClinical Negligence, Healthcare

About

Partner in the Nottingham NHS Resolution team at Browne Jacobson LLP, specialising in high-value and complex clinical negligence claims for NHS bodies, GPs and privately insured doctors. Experienced in informed consent issues following involvement in Shaw v Kovac and is a team mediation champion with a record of resolving complex, sensitive cases including group actions and high-value obstetric matters.

Practice areas

Clinical NegligenceHealthcareLitigationMediationObstetrics & Maternity

Office

Expertise

NHS bodies (NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts, NHS England)Obstetrics and maternity/birth injuryInformed consent and medical ethicsMediation and dispute resolutionGroup actions

Education

  • BA (Qualifying) Law & Criminology
  • Legal Practice Course

Admissions

  • Solicitor (England) – admitted August 2006