Partner
Robert Bell is a Partner within the Clinical Negligence Department, and has been with Mayo Wynne Baxter since 2005.
Recognised as a 'Leader in the Field' of Clinical Negligence Law by Chambers UK, Robert is adept at dealing with complex issues across the medical spectrum and his experience ranges from cases worth tens of thousands of pounds to multi-million pound brain and spinal injury claims. Recent successes include an award of £3.6 million for a child who suffers with learning difficulties following a delay in her birth and an award for £450,000 in a leg amputation case.
Robert trained and qualified with a leading clinical negligence firm in London. He is a member of APIL and a member of the renowned AvMA Referral Panel.
At work, Robert has a growing reputation for his inquest work in cases involving deaths in a healthcare context. He has represented numerous bereaved families in the Coroner's Court, including several cases in which the Coroner sat with a jury. He is the firm's training partner.
Out of work Robert enjoys all sports and is an avowed francophile.
A three-part BBC documentary revealing the working life of a Coroner starts tonight. Death Unexplained follows Her Majesty’s Coroner Alison Thompson and her team investigating unexplained deaths in the busy West London jurisdiction including a suspected poisoning and a possible drugs overdose. Other episodes look into their role in mass tragedies like the New Zealand… Read the rest of this post (No Comments)
February 7th, 2012
Critics of the Government’s plan to cut Legal Aid for victims of medical negligence have long argued that it will not even achieve its objective of saving money, quite apart from the gross unfairness to injured people who will be denied access to justice. This was not simply the vested interests of claimant lawyers speaking. As… Read the rest of this post (No Comments)
January 10th, 2012
Sign petition to extend Coroners’ powers TV and radio reports of investigations into the stillbirth of baby Samuel Dice have uncovered worryingly similar stories. Last September pregnant Joanna Park was left unmonitored for almost seven hours of labour despite telling midwives she couldn’t feel her baby moving. An internal investigation by the Royal Sussex County… Read the rest of this post (1 Comment)
January 9th, 2012
