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Medical law
Jane has a practice embracing all aspects of clinical negligence from anaesthesia to vascular surgery and she has substantial experience in birth asphyxia claims. Her current caseload is principally relating to birth-related injuries such as cerebral palsy and obstetric brachial plexus injury and she has lectured in the latter area jointly with eminent obstetric experts. She also has significant experience in claims for undiagnosed perineal tears in childbirth and late diagnosis of cancers. Her defence practice covers all areas of clinical negligence in the NHS and private sectors. Her initial experience in clinical negligence was in the series of claims involving patient awareness under general anaesthesia for caesarean section, which eventually led to the prosecution of one anaesthetist before the GMC, and to a radical change in the practice of obstetric anaesthesia. Recently, Jane has been instructed in several inquests investigating hospital deaths.