Kay Barnes, Director & Solicitor
Kay is a Director and Solicitor in the Medical Negligence department based in Leeds
Tel: 0113 2231429
Department:
Medical Negligence
Address:
St James House, 28 Park Place Leeds, LS1 2SP
Email Address:
kay.barnes@switalskis.com
Kay is head of the Leeds Medical Negligence team and runs a caseload of birth injury and complex high value cases.
Kay is head of the Leeds Medical Negligence team and runs a caseload of birth injury and complex high value cases.
Kay is a highly experienced Medical Negligence lawyer working across the breadth of Clinical Negligence since qualifying in 1997. Kay specialises in birth injury and Cerebral Palsy cases.
As a former Midwife she can bring to the role her extensive medical experience and knowledge.
More about Kay
We asked Kay: What can clients expect from you? I am empathic and supportive, and passionate about supporting my clients, who are often living very difficult lives, with profoundly injured children or who are catastrophically injured themselves, not only to a successful conclusion, but on their road to recovery with the support and help they need for a better future. My extensive clinical experience as a former midwife gives me great insight into the often traumatic experiences of my clients and enables me to undertake a forensic analysis of the medical evidence and employ strategies to maximise prospects of a case succeeding. I am dedicated not only to my clients but also to my team and colleagues. I am a determined Litigator and very team focused, supporting junior members and drawing in the strengths and experience of the whole team, to ensure the client’s journey is a very positive one, and there is personal and professional satisfaction across the team in bringing a client’s case to conclusion. What do you love about your job? I gain as much personal and professional reward in supporting my clients at a time when they are vulnerable and need help, as I did when I worked as a midwife supporting women antenatally and through labour and delivery. What are your interests outside work? I am a keen walker, avid reader, and a singer in a band.