Firm expands its clinical negligence team
Moore Blatch has strengthened its West London team with the appointment of two experienced solicitors to its clinical negligence department.
Dr Mala Sidebottom (pictured right), a dual-qualified solicitor and doctor and Amandeep Khasriya (pictured left), a clinical negligence solicitor will join the existing department.
Mala will join Moore Blatch 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, Mala 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. As well as this, Mala has extensive inquest experience and has represented families investigating a relative’s death due to substandard medical care.
Concentrating on clinical negligence work, Amandeep 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.
Mala and Amandeep will be based at the Richmond office of Moore Blatch.
Mala says: “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.
“Anne and I have both worked in the NHS so we have a practical understanding of the background and we have both found our medical training helps us to put together the evidence to win a case cost-effectively, whilst also reducing stress to clients.”
Moore Blatch, head of clinical negligence, Tim Spring comments: “Mala has specialised in the most demanding and complex clinical negligence cases for over ten 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.”
