Tel:
0114 266 6660
john.vallance@wake-smith.com
Accidents at work
Back or spinal injuries
Criminal injuries
Fatal accidents
NHS & private health
Road traffic accidents
Trip or slip
About John Vallance
Years’ experience in Medical Negligence: Over 30 Years
About John and his main areas of work:
- Member of the AvMA (Action against Medical Accidents) Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel.
- Senior Litigator of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).
- Specialist in birth and spinal injury claims, surgical errors, misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis of cancer, nursing errors and claims against GPs, opticians and practitioners of complementary medicine.
- Human Rights Act claims.
- Extensive experience of personal injury work, including product liability claims.
- Member of the South Yorkshire Medico-Legal Society.
Important/significant cases:
- £4.9 million for paraplegia following fall from hospital window.
- £500,000 for an overdose of radiation during cancer treatment.
- £4,000 for misprescription of drugs in a nursing home.
- £250,000 for nerve injury during spinal surgery.
- £30,000 for breach of right to life under the Human Rights Act following systems failure in hospital.
- £120,000 for hand injury during a package holiday abroad.
- £1m for misprescription by GP resulting in acute kidney failure and permanent muscle wastage
APIL membership:
Practitioner member
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What does this mean?
APIL accreditation:
Senior Litigator
Other memberships:
Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA)
Languages: English
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John's firm
WAKE SMITH SOLICITORS LTD
No1 Velocity
2 Tenter Street
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 4BY