Deirdre is a senior associate solicitor in the Healthcare team at Hayes solicitors. She acts on behalf of public hospitals and private medical and dental practitioners in the defence of clinical negligence claims.
Deirdre’s experience includes medical negligence, defective product liability and personal injuries actions.
Clinical negligence – acting in the defence of clinical negligence claims including surgical errors and missed or delayed diagnosis claims.
Catastrophic injuries – assisting with high value catastrophic injury claims requiringdetailed investigations into liability and quantum.
Plaintiff claims – advising on High Court Plaintiff medical negligence actions including claims relating to oncology, gynaecological and obstetric injuries, general surgical errors and fatal injury claims.
Personal injuries – advising clients in personal injuries actions arising from accidents at work, road traffic accidents and public liability claims.
Product liability – advising on product liability litigation, including actions taken by patients who received DePuy ‘ASR’ hip implants which were the subject of a global recall due to a defect in the product.
Deirdre has presented for the Claims Management Conference 2024 on the Judicial Guidelines.