Olive Lewin
Partner
Areas of Practice:
“One of the best solicitors I have ever worked with. Has extensive experience in medical negligence work, very thorough and detailed, and achieves excellent outcomes for the client.”
– Tony Sirimanna, Consultant Audiological Physician at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
“"She is completely committed to her clients and is highly experienced."”
– Chambers and partners 2019
Olive Lewin is an experienced healthcare lawyer who has specialised in the field for more than 25 years, having previously trained as a nurse.
Olive has significant and extensive experience of assisting those with complex and high-value clinical negligence claims.
She has been ranked by the two leading legal directories as a recommended lawyer in the area of clinical negligence for many years as she is a specialist known for her work on complex injury claims. These have included (but are not limited to) claims involving cauda equina; spinal cord injury; cerebral palsy; brain damage; cardiac surgery; undiagnosed TB meningitis; septicaemia; cerebral palsy; undiagnosed endocarditis; drug toxicity; anaesthetic negligence; 3rd and 4th degree perineal tears; thrombosis and pulmonary embolism; amputation.
Recent key cases include:
- Hassell v Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where Olive was the solicitor instructed on behalf of the claimant. This was a significant claim on the issue of consent in a spinal cord injury claim. The claimant recovered in excess of £4.4 million.
- A settlement for £1 million where a young mother died as a result of missed sepsis within 24 hours of delivering her baby.
- A settlement for £16 million for a client who suffered spinal cord injury (tetraplegia) following undiagnosed TB meningitis.
- A settlement for in excess of £11,000,000 for a client who suffered brain damage following an anaesthetic error.
- A claim for £750,000 on behalf of a client who was left with neurological problems following Lithium Toxicity.
Olive is a member of the Spinal Injuries Association, AvMA and the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.