Lawyers’ Service
AvMA provides a range of specialist services and benefits for barristers and claimant solicitors who work in the field of clinical negligence. Solicitor firms acting on behalf of claimants and barristers can join for an annual fee.
If your firm has already subscribed, you and your colleagues will be able to access dedicated online services. This is a service for Lawyers’ Service members only and is password protected where members can:
- Request medical experts online (follow the steps to our portal here)
- Find legal updates, recent cases, useful links.
- Search for a barrister specialising in clinical negligence
- Clinical-Negligence-Claims-Agreement-27.8.24Clinical Negligence Claims Agreement (CNCA) and Limitation Warning
Please read the following statement carefully as it relates to the CNCA provisions on limitation. The following statement has been agreed by NHS Resolution and SCIL:
With the limitation moratorium specified in the Clinical Negligence Claims Agreement expiring on 26 August 2025, we wanted to remind everyone that the remainder of the agreement remains fully in effect. It is essential to the ongoing efforts of collaboration that all parties continue to adhere to the principles and guidance contained in the agreement. If you do require more time to investigate your case, then you should contact the NHS Resolution case handler or lawyer with conduct direct to see if additional time can be agreed, you need to do this urgently and before 26th August. Further extensions of time will be considered on a case-by-case basis, claimant lawyers should be clear about why they have been unable to progress the case in extended time allowed. If a further extension of time is not agreed, claimant lawyers will need to consider how they can best protect their client’s position, including whether they need to issue proceedings to preserve limitation.
Your cooperation in maintaining the ways of working under CNCA is greatly appreciated.
Please let us know if you have any questions or need further clarification on any aspect of the agreement.
If you have any queries regarding the service, please contact our Lawyers’ Service Administrator Norika Patel who is also the PA to Lisa O’Dwyer, our Director of Medico-Legal Services.
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