Louise Metcalf
Louise specialises in Multi-Track Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence litigation, acting for both Claimants and Defendants.
She has extensive experience of the following areas: -
* Fatal Accidents and Inquests;
* Public Liability Claims including claims under the
Highways Act;
* Occupiers Liability Act and Defective Premises Act;
* Employers’ liability claims including claims for stress
at work;
* Accidents Abroad – including claims under the
Package Holiday Regulations and
Conflict of Laws;
* CICA/ CICB cases
She has been instructed in a number of catastrophic injury claims including adult and paediatric brain injury cases, and claims for severe, multiple orthopaedic injuries. She has experience of claims for chronic pain conditions, including CRPS and somatoform disorders.
Her clinical negligence cases have included:
* Pharmacological negligence cases;
* Dental negligence;
* Claims arising from negligently performed cosmetic
surgery;
* A claim for negligent failure to diagnose acute limb
ischaemia resulting in below knee amputation;
* A claim arising from mismanagement of labour
resulting in brain injury;
* Failure to diagnose a drug intolerance resulting in
prolonged illness.
