Sanja Strkljevic

Sanja specialises exclusively in clinical negligence claims.  

She deals with a wide range of cases involving medical care provided to patients at NHS and private hospitals, by private doctors and GPs, resulting in serious injury or death.  Sanja brings claims on behalf of adults, children and bereaved families. 

Sanja has a particular interest in obstetrics and gynaecology.  She has significant experience acting for women who have been injured during childbirth. She also acts for children who have sustained neurological damage at or after birth.  Sanja’s other particular interest is amputation, an area in which she has a growing practice. Sanja also specialises in fatal cases, and has considerable experience in bringing claims arising from the death of a loved one.  She represents and supports bereaved families through the process of a Coroner’s Inquest. 

Cases Sanja has successfully concluded include:

• Obtaining a six figure settlement in a claim brought by a woman who sustained life-changing injuries during the birth of her child.
• Securing Judgment in favour of a child who sustained a brain injury resulting in cerebral palsy during a complex delivery. 
• Obtaining compensation for the family of a young woman who died from hyponatraemia. 
• Securing a six figure settlement for a woman who sustained injuries in childbirth resulting in a recto-vaginal fistula.
• Obtaining a six figure settlement for a woman who sustained significant psychiatric injuries from her experiences of negligent failure to diagnose post-operative complications of cholecystectomy. 
• Settling a claim arising from a stillbirth.  
• Obtaining significant compensation for a man who sustained neurological injuries as a consequence of anaesthetic and surgical negligence. 
• Settling a claim brought by a family of a woman who died during her pregnancy after a negligent failure to diagnose and treat pre-eclampsia at a London Hospital.
• Obtaining compensation for the adult children of a woman who died as a result of negligent failure to diagnose and treat thyrotoxicosis.
• Securing settlement for a widow and child of a man who died as a result of negligent failure to diagnose and treat post-operative complications of bowel surgery at King’s College Hospital.
• Settling a claim for a partner of a woman who died after a negligent failure to diagnose and treat a psoas abscess at Queen’s Hospital. 

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