Nicola Mooney
Partner

Nicola Mooney qualified as a solicitor in 1985 and is a partner in the clinical negligence and personal injury department. She has dealt predominantly with clinical negligence claims since 1995, becoming a member of the Law Society’s Clinical Negligence Panel in January 1999.

Nicola is Secretary to the Child Injury Special Interest Group of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and also sits as a member of the Legal Services Commission’s Special Cases Unit Funding Review Committee.

Before joining McMillan Williams, Nicola Mooney was a partner at Thompson Snell & Passmore. Prior to that Nicola was a partner at Hodge Jones & Allen where she headed up the clinical negligence team.

Nicola is currently handling a number of complex claims that are predominantly on behalf of children who have suffered brain injury at birth or in the neonatal period. She has a particular expertise in kernicterus cases where brain damage is caused by mismanagement of neonatal jaundice. However, Nicola continues to act for both children and adults who have been injured as a result of other forms of clinical negligence. Her experience includes spinal injury claims and claims arising from different surgical procedures.

Nicola is very aware of being an advocate for her clients in the broadest sense. Very often, the injured person or his or her family are hit especially hard by a medical accident and do not know where to turn for financial help or for practical and emotional support or even for medical and rehabilitative treatment that is desperately needed. Nicola considers it to be an important part of her role as a clinical negligence solicitor to use her extensive experience to help her clients in practical ways throughout a claim.

Nicola has achieved excellent results for her clients. In 2008 she had conduct of a cerebral palsy claim where there was throughout no admission of liability but which was settled for a lump sum of £1.5 million together with annual payments of £60,000 initially and £140,000 from age 19, with these payments to be index linked to Government statistics on the level of carers wages (Tonna –v- Bart’s & The London NHS Trust).

Also in 2008 she resolved a spinal cord injury case where liability was admitted but which was complicated by the fact that the claimant already had severe learning difficulties as a result of Downs Syndrome. This claim settled for a lump sum payment of just over £1 millon together with annual payments of £228,000, again index linked to carers wages.