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Our annual travel law conference took place on Thursday 19th October at Outer Temple Chambers, London. Topics included Spanish Penalty Interest, Co-counselling on Clinical Negligence claims aboard, a panel session on running clinical negligence abroad and navigating turbulent topics in aviation claims. We were delighted to have been joined by a esteemed line-up of external speakers, from the UK and across the globe.
The recording of the second session of the day, on co-counselling on Clinical Negligence claims abroad with Victoria Williams (Stewarts Law) and Natalia Astigarraga Bronte (Astrom) is now available.
Victoria is a Senior Associate at Stewarts and represents clients who have suffered serious, life-changing injuries as a result of clinical negligence. She has specialised in these high value and complex cases since 2009 and has worked on and settled multiple multi-million-pound claims.
Victoria has particular expertise in representing both child and adult clients with spinal and brain injuries and supporting those clients and their families through the complex and sometimes lengthy litigation process. She is also a specialist in cross border clinical negligence cases having represented clients who have suffered brain and spinal injuries as a result of medical mismanagement overseas.
Recent highlights include acting as co-counsel with Italian lawyers and successfully recovering damages when inadequate medical treatment was provided following an accident on a tourist boat trip where the client had suffered a high-level spinal injury
Natalia is a leading personal injury specialist with extensive experience in international litigation. She is one of the founding partners of ASTROM Legal, a firm that specialises in civil liability and personal injury.
Natalia is regularly instructed as an expert in Spanish Law injury cases. She is experienced in holiday claims resulting from accidents abroad involving hotels and tour operators as well as claims against public bodies such as Local Authorities and hospitals. Her wide-ranging experience also includes claims resulting from the transport of passengers by road, air and sea and medical negligence, specifically in relation to birth injuries.
She is a member of the Malaga Bar Association, the American Association for Justice (AAJ), APIL (Association of Personal Injury Lawyers UK) and the Spanish Association of Lawyers. Natalia is the PEOPIL representative for Spain.
In 2023, Natalia joined Ana Romero in founding their own firm Astrom Legal.
News 7 Nov, 2023
