Delyth operates nationally from our Leeds and London offices, while also supporting clients locally across our regional offices and through home visits. This ensures her specialist legal support is always accessible, wherever clients are based.

Delyth has a background in dealing with:

• Multi-party litigation
• Judicial inquiry and helping set up government compensation scheme
• Inquests
• Consumer Protection Act (e.g. infected blood; a ‘snapped’ suture)
• Court of Protection health and welfare work

She is a specialist in medical negligence.  Most of her current cases are for children with birth or neonatal injuries - although, she does regularly act for:

• Patients in the Court of Protection
• Psychiatrically injured clients
• Bereaved families
• Injured individuals

 Delyth is particularly interested in consent and capacity.

APPROACH

A young Delyth came into the law to help people. She is diligent, hard-working, and compassionate. She takes a serious, thoughtful, approach to try and make the law work for her clients and fights tenaciously for them. 

Delyth is also extremely approachable, and her Welsh roots give her a great sense of fair play.

She has worked almost exclusively for injured people and their families since qualifying as a solicitor in 1990.

EXPERIENCE

Delyth is a member of the Legal Aid Steering Committee for the Human Growth Hormone (Hgh) / CJD Litigation (first successful multi-party litigation of its kind); which ran majority of lead psychiatric injury claims and ‘worried well’ cases.

She is part of the team at the BSE Inquiry for the families; she helped negotiate the vCJD Scheme (most generous government scheme at the time) and ran many families’ claims.

Previous cases have included: 

• Raphael v the Norfolk Suffolk & Cambridge 2006 – Community Care law and indexation issues (thought to be largest singleton award made at the time, over £8.2 million lump sum equivalent).
• Failure to consent over risk of uterine rupture – judgment entered on a 70% basis (£6.3 million on full lump sum equivalent, 2009.)
• U (through Official Solicitor) – cerebral palsy caused by untreated neonatal herpes -  disabled young adult in very vulnerable home situation but mother remained key witness; settled just before trial for just over £1 million; anonymity order needed.