Rebecca Dennis LLB (Hons) LLM
Called 1994 (Gray’s Inn)
Rebecca Dennis enters the rankings of notable practitioners in recognition of her growing reputation as an "extremely bright and excellent communicator." She is a "gifted advocate, particularly in cross-examination." She divides her time between employers' liability, personal injury and clinical negligence work.
Chambers & Partners, 2012
"Rebecca Dennis is commended for her robust advocacy: “she is persuasive, assertive and inspires confidence in clients”
Chambers & Partners, 2011
“She understands the important issues in personal injury work and always adds value to cases”
Legal 500, 2010
“Formidable cross examiner…”
Legal 500, 2009
Rebecca Dennis is a dedicated claimant focused lawyer. Rebecca is an active member of APIL, PIBA, AvMA and ELA.
Personal Injury Law
Rebecca has a particular interest and expertise in psychiatric injury sustained through work-related stress. This work encompasses both High Court claims for injury at work caused by breach of duty and also Employment Tribunal claims for discriminatory treatment which has caused injury. Rebecca’s caseload includes many claims of serious psychiatric injury sustained in the workplace and cases involving chronic pain.
Her caseload also includes catastrophic injuries, Fatal Accident Act claims and injuries sustained through accidents at work.
Rebecca is instructed by leading claimant solicitors.
Clinical Negligence
Her clinical negligence claims habitually include issues concerning limitation, consent and provisional damages. Here are some examples of Rebecca’s caseload:
General Practice: Delayed diagnosis of cervical cancer, failure to diagnose emerging cauda equina syndrome, failure to diagnose bladder damage attributable to a migrated suture from historic surgery, negligently performed vasectomy, failure to identify bowel obstruction.
Obstetrics & Gynaecology: Negligent performance of hysterectomy, insufficiently planned and negligently performed surgery resulting in permanent bowel and bladder damage.
Midwifery: Negligent administration of epidural drug, failure to monitor foetal heart rate, failure to assess the commencement of labour, still birth, failure to appreciate damage to mother sustained during birth.
Plastic surgery: Negligent insertion of unreliable breast implants, failed gastric banding and failure to appreciate post-operative complications, negligently performed tummy tuck surgery.
Orthopaedics/spinal surgery: Delay in diagnosis of cauda equine syndrome resulting in permanent bilateral disability, failure to diagnose cervical spinal fracture following serious road traffic accident, unnecessary ORIF surgery for leg fracture resulting in permanent ulceration and risk of amputation.
Urology/Uro-gynaecology: Surgery to remove a non-existent vaginal cyst resulting in significant urethral damage, late diagnosis of cancer leading to impotence, bowel damage caused during hysterectomy.
Dental negligence: Negligent failure to appreciate the effects of previous radiotherapy before root canal treatment resulting in necrosis and consequent radical surgery.
Coroners Inquests: Rebecca frequently represents individuals and families at inquests. She was instructed in the Cabrera Inquest heard in Wiltshire following the sudden death of a new mother in a delivery suite following negligent administration of epidural medication.
