Emma Broomfield

Solicitor - Clinical Negligence

SRA ID: 153590

Emma is a partner at Lanyon Bowdler with over 20 years' specialist experience in clinical negligence and personal injury litigation. She qualified as a solicitor in 1991 after gaining her law degree from Cambridge University in 1988 and joined Lanyon Bowdler’s clinical negligence department in 2003. Emma is accredited to the Law Society’s Clinical Negligence Panel and a Senior Litigator with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). In 2019 Emma was also awarded AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel accreditation. She has wide ranging experience having acted for claimants with cerebral palsy, catastrophic brain injury, spinal injury, cancer and amputees as well as on a wide range of cases involving misdiagnosis, inadequate treatment and surgical error. She also has experience of handling fatal claims and advising on all aspects of Inquests. Through her work for clients who have sustained serious injury as a result of medical negligence, Emma has assisted clients in obtaining suitable accommodation and establishing care and therapy packages with case management input, securing substantial interim payments to fund these when needed. Emma jointly hosted our national conference, ‘Surviving Spinal Injury – The Journey’ which was held at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Gobowen, Oswestry. You can view our spinal injury newsletter here which provides more information about the topics covered at the conference.