Sarah Doyle, Litigation Executive
Sarah is a litigation executive in the Medical Negligence department based at our York office
Tel: 01904 606250
Department:
Medical Negligence
Address:
18 Back Swinegate, York YO1 8AD
Email Address:
sarah.doyle@switalskis.com
Sarah is part of the Medical Negligence team and enjoys the variety involved in this type of work, as well as helping people who have been injured by medical mistakes.
I have dealt with families who have lost loved ones due to surgical errors, late diagnosis of conditions which lead to loss of hearing and sight, failures to refer by GPs and amputations necessitated by missed knee infections.
Sarah is part of the Medical Negligence team and enjoys the variety involved in this type of work, as well as helping people who have been injured by medical mistakes.
I have dealt with families who have lost loved ones due to surgical errors, late diagnosis of conditions which lead to loss of hearing and sight, failures to refer by GPs and amputations necessitated by missed knee infections.
Sarah began working in the legal industry in 1993. She first worked as a legal secretary at a firm that specialised in industrial disease claims. After that she went on to work as a PA to a senior solicitor who specialised in high value claims; many of which involved clients who had been paralysed.
Following this she worked at another firm, where she represented clients who had been injured in road traffic accidents. Sarah spent a total of 19 years helping clients who had been injured in road traffic accidents. Ten of these were spent representing motorcyclists who had been injured in accidents that were not their fault.
During this time Sarah gained a lot of experience in litigation. She has issued claims at court since 1999 and been responsible for handling them through to trial since 2008.
Sarah has studied to be a Chartered Legal Executive and is currently an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
More about Sarah
We asked Sarah: What can clients expect from you? Clients can expect me to work efficiently to progress their claim as quickly as possible. I will instruct the right experts to prove their case and be tenacious with the defendant. What do you like best about your job? I love investigating claims and working out what happened and what potentially went wrong. Even if there is no evidence to support a legal claim, I enjoy being able to get answers for the client to clarify what happened. If we are able to establish negligence and causation, I enjoy supporting the clients through the claims process. What are your interests outside work? I enjoy going to the gym, running and reading. I also enjoy socialising with her friends and family. I have taken part in numerous 5k, 10k and 10 mile runs to raise money for Cancer Research – a charity which is close to my heart. I also took part in a night cycle ride from Windsor to London and back again, 60 miles, starting at 9pm and finishing around 4.30am. In 2019 I walked the Yorkshire 3 Peaks with Pryers to raise money for Charlies-Angel-Centre Foundation. This was one of the biggest challenges I have completed, to date! TESTIMONIALS “The court hearing result was superb and its not without your brilliant work” “Sarah was quick, agile, clever and highly efficient in dealing with my claim – I cannot stress how much support was given. Five stars is not enough to rate her hard work – highly recommended”