Gabriella Gooday | Fieldfisher

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Gabriella Gooday

Professional background

Professional background

I joined the Medical Negligence team at Fieldfisher in May 2014. I assist Jane Weakley and Helen Thompson on high value, complex cases usually involving children.

I have successfully completed the Graduate Diploma in Law at the University of Law, Moorgate and have achieved Graduate Member status with The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives. I qualified as a Chartered Legal Executive in 2019.

I predominantly assist on catastrophic obstetric and neonatal cases but have also worked on the following:

Awards & recognition

Awards & recognition

Authored pieces

Insights Case studies

Women are unheard, misdiagnosed and undertreated

While representing a new mother who had a severe injury misdiagnosed by her consultant, the question I kept returning to was did her gender impact on her care?

Terrible impact on new mother of missed third-degree tear at St George's Hospital

Damages following negligent vaginal mesh repair at private Spire Hospital

Delayed sepsis diagnosis caused foot and finger amputations for woman given 5% chance of survival

Settlement following failure to spot sepsis in right knee replacement at Alexandra Hospital causing multiple revision surgeries

Helen Thompson and Gabriella Gooday reached a six-figure settlement on behalf of a woman following a delay in diagnosis of infection in the right knee joint at Alexandra Hospital, Redditch following a total knee replacement 2 months' prior.