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Tom Gibson represents successful claimant in sports injury case

Tom Gibson represents successful claimant in sports injury case

Tom Gibson represented a young woman in her successful claim for negligence in treating a knee injury – and for the loss of her promising career as a professional footballer.

The claimant was just 18 years old when she consulted an orthopaedic surgeon at her local hospital about a cruciate ligament knee injury. After being given advice that she could continue training and playing football, her knee worsened over the next year. She eventually had two cruciate ligament reconstruction operations before making the heartbreaking decision, aged just 23, to retire from football.

The claimant brought a ‘loss of a chance’ claim for her lost earnings as a professional footballer. As a teenager she had been a very promising young player at a club now playing in the Women’s Super League. Her case involved unusual and interesting expert evidence from a football agent and from a football academic and accountant on her career prospects – and on the recent growth of earnings in women’s professional football.

The case progressed through court proceedings towards an 8-day High Court trial. The Defendant denied liability throughout. However, the case was settled successfully, for a substantial sum, at a settlement meeting in early 2025.

Tom was instructed by Tamlin Bolton, Senior Associate Solicitor at Switalskis.

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Tom specialises in Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury – and has done so since joining Outer Temple Chambers in 2011.  He represents both claimants and defendants. Tom acts on a wide range of clinical negligence cases, up to and including trial. His clients include patients, their families, NHS hospital trusts, individual doctors, and other clinicians. Tom acts on a range of high-value personal injury cases, mainly involving spinal cord injury, brain injury, or amputations. He has a particular interest in quantum

To find out more, contact Paul Barton on +44 (0)20 7427 4907 or Harry Gamble on +44 (0)20 7353 6381 for a confidential discussion.

News 16 Jan, 2025

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