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Andrea Barnes - Specialist Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence Mediator

Mediation Experience

Andrea is an international mediator and trainer in facilitative and evaluative mediation. Whilst a large proportion of her clinical, dental and personal injury practice involves high value, complex, catastrophic or fatal incidents Andrea is equally happy to assist on lower value matters. Prior to Call Andrea initially gained 4 years’ experience in fatal and catastrophic injuries whilst working at renowned Defendant insurer solicitors Davies Arnold Cooper (now part of DAC Beachcroft). She has also acted as consultant to a leading insurer on “ways to minimize financial leakage in personal injury and clinical negligence claims”. In 2015 Andrea carried out an extensive analysis of the costs market post-Jackson reforms for a leading private equity initiative. She currently specialises in complex costs issues.

Andrea is approved for the following panels: Medical Protection Society (Costs Panel) and Public Access Accredited

Practice Areas

Clinical negligence

• Allegations of failure to investigate, diagnose or treat
• Maternity, obstetrics and gynaecology with a particular specialism in neonate deaths
• General practice and ambulance trust cases
• Surgical issues
• Infection cases in particular neonate and infant infection cases
• Neurological issues such as sub-arachnoid haemorrhage and PCOS malformation
• Cardiovascular and cardiothoracic cases
• Dental issues
  
  

Personal injury

• Industrial/occupational disease
• Road Traffic Accidents in particular motorcycle and cycle collisions
• Occupiers’ liability
• Employer’s liability
• Public liability
• Product liability
• Highways
  
  

Costs

• High-value costs disputes
• Issue-based costs arguments
• Joint and several liability costs arguments
• Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer’s Home or Place of Work etc. Regulations 2008
• Repudiatory and repudiated contracts
• Statutory interpretation
• ATE issues pre and post-Jackson
• Success fee issues pre-Jackson
• Capacity issues relevant to retainers
• Non-party costs orders
  
  

She is currently a co-opted Governor, a Director of Trust Mediation, an international mediation trainer and a peer mediation co-ordinator trainer. ad of Chambers at Normanton Chambers and has undertaken a notable volume of Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence matters.