Experience

• Janet is the Head of the Liability Division.
• Handles a wide range of matters for hospitals including cerebral palsy, paediatrics and spinal injuries.
• Advises medical malpractice insurers on policy issues and represented private hospitals and diagnostic clinics for over 20 years.
• Provides health law advice to hospitals.
• Represents healthcare practitioners at disciplinary hearings before their regulatory bodies.
• Represents trusts at inquests.
• Repeatedly rated as a leader in the field of healthcare - "Janet Sayers is another esteemed practitioner providing 'consistently excellent work.' Trusts appreciate her oversight of their legal work and are heartened to know that 'she will always deal with the more sensitive claims on a personal basis." Chambers, 2010.

Significant cases

• (1) Kerstin Parkin (suing by her husband & next friend Mark Barrington Perkin) (2) Mark Barrington Perkin v Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust
• Acland Thorman v New Hampshire Insurance Co (UK) Ltd. Also known as Home Insurance Co v New Hampshire Insurance Co (UK) Ltd
• Crofton (a patient suing by his father and litigation friend John Crofton) v National Health Service Litigation Authority
  Fitzgerald v Lane and Another
• Christian Raphael v Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority

Clients

• NHS Litigation Authority
• Medical Protection Society
• NHS Trusts and Primary Care Trusts
• Healthcare practitioners
• Private hospitals and clinics
• Medical malpractice insurers