James Aldridge

Call date: 1987

Clerk: Graham Woods

Areas of Law:	Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Professional Negligence

Practice summary

James Aldridge specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, and professional negligence in relation to the handling of litigation in those areas. His practice is fairly evenly spilt between claimant and defendant in personal injury work, and he acts mainly, but not exclusively, for claimants in clinical negligence cases.

He undertakes the full range of work within these areas including cases of catastrophic injury. For example, recently concluded cases for Claimants include settlements in fatal, traumatic brain injury and cerebral palsy cases. He also frequently represents insurers of Defendants in claims relating to public and employers’ liability.

A selection of recent cases

Lindgren v Daily – settled April 2010
Fatal RTA. 29 year old motor mechanic leaving wife and children. Settled at JSM £430,000.

Loughborough v Austin – settled April 2010
RTA: brachial plexus injury causing flail arm requiring future amputation, and above knee amputation. Settled at JSM for £1.4 million.

Funnell v Scope – settled February 2010
Spinal injury to Claimant with pre-existing cerebral palsy. Settled at JSM for £500,000 (with Gerard McDermott QC)

W v South East Coast Strategic Health Authority - settled April 2009
16 1/2 yr old boy. As a result of the Defendant’s negligence he suffered severe hypoxic brain damage during birth which caused microcephaly and severe learning difficulties. Settled at JSM for £1,450,000 + pps of £40,000 to age 25 and £75,000 thereafter (with David Westcott QC).

Hannah v Davies – settled March 2009
Fatal RTA. 46 year old lorry driver leaving wife and children. Settled at JSM £320,000.