Hampshire: Moore Blatch expands clinical negligence team

Leading Hampshire law firm Moore Blatch has strengthened its clinical negligence team with the appointment of two experienced solicitors.

Dr Mala Sidebottom, a dual-qualified solicitor and doctor, and Amandeep Khasriya, a clinical negligence solicitor, will join the existing department, which already has a strong reputation for its clinical negligence work and again achieved the highest rankings possible in the independent guides to the profession The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

Sidebottom will join the firm as a senior solicitor. She qualified as a doctor in 1993 and worked as an anaesthetist. After deciding to pursue a career in the law, she qualified as a solicitor in 2004.

She previously worked for leading claimant clinical negligence firm Leigh Day where she successfully represented clients across a broad range of complex cases, including birth injury claims settled for seven-figure sums, as well as a broad range of injuries, including brain, spinal, infectious diseases, ENT, surgical and orthopaedic injury. She also has extensive inquest experience and has represented families investigating a relative’s death due to sub-standard medical care.

Sidebottom is an accredited member of the Law Society’s specialist clinical negligence panel, and a member of Action against Medical Accidents and the Medico-Legal Society.  She is also a capable speaker and is often invited to speak to medical and legal students on issues that affect their profession.

Asked about her new appointment, she said: “I’m delighted to have joined the team at Moore Blatch and am particularly looking forward to working with partner Anne Cassidy, who is also dual-qualified.  The aim is to approach every case with focused expertise to ensure that when a patient has been harmed by sub-standard medical care they receive the financial help which will allow them the best-possible future.

Khasriya is a solicitor with over six years’ experience.  Concentrating on clinical negligence work, she will be responsible for a caseload consisting of complex and catastrophic claims. She has a wide range of experience handling clinical negligence cases involving serious injury and death, including complex cases involving delays in diagnosing cancer, birth injuries, general surgery, orthopaedics, as well as A&E injuries.

Moore Blatch head of clinical negligence Tim Spring commented: “Mala has specialised in the most demanding and complex clinical negligence cases for over 10 years.  Her medical expertise along with Amandeep’s knowledge and capability will offer a wonderful further resource for a team that has long been recognised as top flight.

“It is becoming more difficult for people of ordinary means, with complicated claims, to secure the help they need and we are proud to offer a strong specialist team which can provide clients with the highest calibre of legal advice when, sadly, things have gone wrong.”