Caroline
Klage
Caroline heads up the clinical negligence team at Bolt Burdon Kemp and specialises in clinical negligence and personal injury. She has a particular interest in cases involving brain injury and has been instrumental in successfully concluding a number of high value cases. Caroline relishes a challenge and has successfully concluded a number of cases rejected by other firms on the grounds that they had poor prospects of success. Caroline champions a pro-active and practical approach to running clinical negligence and personal injury cases which ensures that cases are progressed swiftly and without delay with clients receiving the maximum amount of compensation possible.
Career
Caroline trained at Prettys solicitors in Ipswich and joined Bolt Burdon Kemp shortly after qualifying in September 2001. She was made a Partner in August 2006.
Memberships
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)
Education
Lancaster University - European Legal Studies with German (LLB). Winner of the FH Lawson Prize for the best graduating student on her course and the Cavendish Prize for the best final year dissertation in law.
Nottingham University - Masters degree in European Law (LLM), graduating with distinction.
College of Law, London – Legal Practice Course, merit.
Personal
Caroline is happily married with two children and lives in Barnet, Herts.
Outside work, Caroline enjoys family life, camping, socialising and choral music.
Reported Cases
Russell v Smith (2003)
Caroline represented the Claimant in this case who was a young boy who had experienced head injuries of the utmost severity. He had been riding his bicycle, when the Defendant, travelling at speeds of up to 30mph collided with him. The accident occurred in a 30mph zone. This was a landmark case. Even though the Defendant was travelling within the speed limit, the judge held that she was negligent. The speed limit was the maximum limit at which motorists should travel and the Defendant should have moderated her speed to take into account other factors, such as the fact that she was in a built up area with lots of parked cars on either side of the road and visibility, due to parked cars on the road and at junctions was poor. Also, she had a duty to take into account the presence of vulnerable road users, such as children and cyclists and adjust her speed accordingly.
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