Janet Sayers - Partner

Experience

Janet has been repeatedly rated as a leader in the field of Healthcare in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Guide to the UK Legal Profession:

"Sayers inspires great trust in her clients, who appreciate the efforts she goes to make personal contact"

"a remarkable lawyer"

among "the leading lights in the sector"

"ability to see the commercial picture"

• 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
• She represents Trusts at Inquests

Projects

• (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
• NHS Trusts and Primary Care Trusts
• Healthcare practitioners
• Private hospitals and clinics
• Medical malpractice insurers

Professional

• 1981 Qualified in England and Wales
• 1996 Qualified in Northern Ireland

Publications

• Claims Handling: Law and Practice – A Practitioner's Guide – co-author
• Widely published in a number of healthcare and risk management journals and the national press including The Times
• Regularly lectures at healthcare conferences and hospitals on all aspects of health law

Memberships

• Forum of Insurance Lawyers
• City of London Solicitors Company
• Association of Regulatory Lawyers