Executive committee members
Officer
Firm:
HUGH JAMES
Further details for
Pauline Roberts
are displayed below.
Pauline joined Hugh James in May 2014. She has over 30 years’ experience of multi-party litigation relating to medical devices, implants and pharmaceuticals.
She has also acted on behalf of claimants in all aspects of health care claims. Representing adults, children and claimants without capacity. Handling claims of moderate value up to claims involving multi-million pound damages.
She has acted in the co-ordination of 150 individual claims in Dalkon Shield (IUCD devices). In 1995 she was successful in achieving settlement of 24 cases of claimants infected with Hepatitis C as a result of receiving Gammogard manufactured by Baxter International Ltd. She was a member of the steering committee in the Myodil litigation against Glaxo Laboratories Ltd,(AB & others v Glaxo) which achieved a settlement for 425 cases, responsible for setting up and co-ordination a panel of examining consultant neurologists, co-ordination of individual claims and implementing the settlement scheme.
She acted at steering committee level in the successful Human Growth Hormone/CJD litigation and many of the passengers in the Gerona Air Crash. She acted in the settlement of 110 Dow Corning breast implant cases and 35 Trilucent Breast Implant cases.
She acted at steering committee level in the various Metal on Metal hip group litigations.
She is currently acting for claimants pursuing compensation for Oculentis intraocular lenses which have opacified causing injury.
Memberships
- Senior Litigator (APIL) - 2018
- Fellow of Chartered Institute of Legal Executives Member of Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) - 1990 to date
- Secretary of the Multi-Party Actions Special interest Group (APIL) - 2005 to 2020
- Secretary of Swansea Medico-Legal Society - 2005 to date.
- Member of Cardiff and District Law Society’
- attend the following meetings each year
- seven EC meetings which usually last a full day
- APIL’s annual general meeting and where necessary, other annual conferences
- EC meeting with SIG/regional group co-ordinators and secretaries (a full day)
(Members of the EC are asked to achieve a 75% attendance rate throughout the year)
- attend and actively support EC sub-committees and policy working groups, which meet at various times of the year
- act as an EC liaison with a specified APIL special interest group and attend meetings, whenever possible
- contribute to the preparation of APIL responses to consultation papers
- attend regional group meetings.
Shareholdings/directorships/partners or otherwise engaged in the management or control of claims management services, medical agencies and other organisations related to providing a service to the injured person, or in the field of personal injury.
None
Consultancies related to providing a service to the injured person, or in the field of personal injury
None
Political organisations/societies/pressure groups/charities/trade unions
Swansea Medico-Legal Society
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