Helen Mulholland

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Year of Call: 1999

Profile: 

Helen specialises in clinical negligence & personal injury. Helen has a growing following among clinical negligence solicitors and undertakes a wide variety of clinical negligence work. She has particular interest and expertise in cases involving:

• gynaecological injury
• urological injury
• urogynaecological issues
  
• birth injury
• psychiatric injury
• secondary victim claims
  
• orthopaedic injury
• neurological injury; and
  
• cases which involve a delay in diagnosing cancer

Helen frequently represents at inquests and is familiar with, and adept at handling, the coronial process. She is proficient in dealing with cases involving children and protected parties and accepts instructions in Article 2 compliant inquests.

As a personal injury practitioner, Helen has extensive experience in conducting complex personal injury litigation in her own right. She has also acted as Junior on a number of cases involving catastrophic injury or complex matters of law.

Helen specialises in cases involving brain injury, and cases of multiple serious injuries.

Helen acts for both Claimant and Defendant and accepts instructions from publicly funded clients and under conditional fee arrangements.

She is an excellent courtroom performer.

Recent Cases:

Clinical Negligence:

• negligently performed myomectomy, resulting in vesico vaginal fistula
• failure to identify and treat basilar tip aneurysm, leading to ruptured aneurysm and associated complications
• failure to provide deaf patient with interpreter
• failure to properly anaesthetise during caesarian section leading to extreme pain and psychiatric damage
• failure to treat schizophrenic patient who required ERCP and went on to develop numerous gallstones and necrosis of the pancreas;
• death of patient following reaction to prescribed drug azathioprine;
• negligently performed hip replacement surgery;
• death of child in A & E, where child wrongly triaged leading to severe delay in treatment;
• nervous shock claim following death of said child in hospital;
• wrongful birth claim;
• delay in diagnosis of cancer.

Inquests:

• death of child in A & E, where child wrongly triaged leading to severe delay in treatment;
• suicide of patient under care of NHS mental health services, and discharged from hospital within the previous 24 hours;
• death of patient following reaction to prescribed drug azathioprine;
• fatality of pilot at Shoreham airshow;
• road traffic inquests;
• inquests arising from industrial accidents.

Personal Injury:

• multiple serious injury following RTA, including amputation and brain injury;
• brain injury following fall from ladder;
• group action by prison officers claiming psychiatric injury;
• fatal motorbike accident: claim of dependents;
• claim of serviceman for loss of career opportunity following personal injury at work.

Recommendations:

"a young up-and-comer who is one to watch in the field."
Chambers UK 2012

"a personable, forceful advocate and fights her corner well."
Legal 500

Member of:

PIBA, AVMA
Northern Circuit, North Eastern Circuit

Career & Education:
University: Degree: Year of Call: Joined Chambers: Languages Spoken:	Birmingham BA (Hons Italian & French) 1999 (Middle Temple) 1999 Italian & French