Cara Guthrie
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| Email: Cara Guthrie | Clerk: Graham Woods | ||
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Practice summary
Cara Guthrie specialises in clinical negligence law. However she also acts in Court of Protection cases, personal injury cases, inquests, community care judicial review cases and mental health tribunals.
She is instructed as a junior by claimants and defendants in cerebral palsy, brain injury and spinal injury cases. Cara is also instructed in lower value clinical negligence cases which encompass a broad spectrum of medical issues, including obstetrics, psychiatry, microbiology and cosmetic surgery.
Cara is recommended as a leading junior in clinical negligence in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.
Cara has experience of claims involving private hospitals and doctors, as well as GPs, the Ministry of Defence and NHS trusts. A number of her cases have had an international element because, either the cause of action accrued overseas or, the claimant lives overseas. She has a particular interest in conflicts of laws issues. As a member of the Ogden Working Committee, she has a detailed understanding of issues such as multipliers, discount rates and periodical payments.
Cara undertakes work that is publicly funded and funded by legal expense insurers and is always willing to consider entering into a conditional fee agreement.
- Katie Younger -v- Dorset & Somerset SHA
- Determination of a preliminary issue on limitation in favour of the defendant. The claimant was wrongly advised to eat a gluten free diet and sustained psychological injury, not amounting to a recognised psychiatric injury. The claimant did not have a claim for damages for personal injury recoverable at law and accordingly the limitation period expired 6 years after her 18th birthday.
- Christian Raphael (by his other & Litigation Friend Vicki Raphael) v Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire SHA (2006)
- LTLPI 23/3/2006
- The claimant, a 19-year-old man, received a lump sum payment of £1,900,000 plus periodic payments for the brain injuries sustained during the neonatal period in October 1986.
- Page v Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
- 3 All ER 367
- Whether the claimant was entitled to recover the costs of investment advice as a seperate head of loss
- Hay v Konig
- assessment of multiplier for future care costs in case of severely brain injured claimant,
- [2002] EWCA Civ 19
- Hatfield train crash
- Manslaughter by gross negligence
“is dynamic, personable and excellent with figures”. “She impresses solicitors with the fact that she is "absolutely laser in cutting through to the issues”. Clinical Negligence, Chambers and Partners 2012
Cara Guthrie is ‘a pleasure to work with’; she is ‘excellent with figures and has a strong grasp of relevant legal principles’. Clinical negligence and healthcare, Legal 500, 2011
‘rising star’, ‘hugely likeable’, ‘excellent on her feet’ Clinical negligence and healthcare Legal 500 2010
'phenomenally bright. "operates at a level that is very advanced for her call." Solicitors turn to her as "she's just what you want at a hearing - confident, articulate and bright." Clinical Negligence, Chambers and Partners 2011
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PNBA