Cerebral Palsy Solicitors Australia

Our cerebral palsy solicitors deal with medical negligence compensation claims using the no win no fee scheme. If you submit the contact form, a specialist lawyer will contact you by telephone. Our cerebral palsy solicitors will initially give you detailed advice on applicable time limits and will review your potential claim before giving you free advice on liability and the prospect of an award of compensation. Our advice is free and without any further obligation.

CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE SOLICITORS FREE HELPLINE 1800 339 353

Reasonable Care

Whilst the law in Australia does vary in some locations, our cerebral palsy solicitors are able to deal with medical negligence compensation claims throughout the country. Whilst a few locations still retain the old common law based on case law and precedents, most cases are now determined by the use of specific medical negligence legislation. In order to obtain a judgement, a cerebral palsy solicitor must show that a healthcare professional’s conduct did not conform to the standard of reasonable care required in that particular location. In all cases the court will determine what it considers to be the appropriate and reasonable standard of care after hearing all of the evidence including statements from those concerned and expert medical opinion.

CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE SOLICITORS FREE HELPLINE 1800 339 353

Medical Negligence

Just because a particular course of action chosen by a doctor fails whereas an alternative may have succeeded does not necessarily mean that the course of action that was chosen was negligent conduct. In most cases a doctors conduct will not be judged to be negligent if a significant body of similarly qualified doctors faced with the same situation in a similar location would have pursued matters in the same way, provided that the course taken stands up to logical analysis, notwithstanding the fact that there may have been other doctors who would have chosen a different and ultimately more successful path. A cerebral palsy solicitor must carefully consider these liability issues and it is a fact that the vast majority of the sufferers of this condition have not been the victims of medical negligence.

CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE SOLICITORS FREE HELPLINE 1800 339 353

Compensation Criteria

A cerebral palsy solicitor must prove four separate elements to succeed in a medical negligence compensation claim :-

• the claimant must be owed a duty of care
• the duty of care must be breached by negligence
• the claimant must have suffered loss
• the negligence must have directly caused the loss