Aidan O’Brien

Aidan O’Brien enjoys a burgeoning clinical negligence practice, acting as sole counsel for both Claimants and Defendants in complex multi-million pound claims. He has a Master’s degree in Healthcare Law & Ethics and has been published in the British Medical Journal.

Aidan has a particular specialism in claims arising from obstetric injuries, wrongful birth, cauda equina syndrome and failures in mental health care.

Recent instructions include:

• Claim involving obstetric brachial plexus injury following excessive traction during delivery, which caused the claimant to suffer a right-sided Erb’s Palsy, valued in excess of £3.7 million.
• Claim arising from obstetric hypoxic cerebral insult causing profound disabilities, valued in excess of £3 million.
• Fatal accident claim arising from a suicide arising from a failure to admit and treat a patient with a complex history of pre-existing psychological difficulties.
• Acting for NHS Trust in a claim arising from a ‘never event’ (an event that the NHS defines as so serious it should never occur), where surgeons removed the wrong bone during elective surgery.
• Defending a claim involving allegations that a patient developed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis) due to the hepatitis B vaccine, pleaded in excess of £6 million.

Aidan is also trained as a Nursing & Midwifery Council case presenter and has significant experience with medical regulatory proceedings.

“Very informative” – Delegate from Inspire Clinical Negligence Conference on 13.09.2017

“Really very good” – Delegate from Inspire Clinical Negligence Conference on 13.09.2017