Hannah is a Senior Associate Solicitor in the Complex Injury team. She specialises in medical negligence claims, in particular those relating to women’s health, and she is passionate about securing justice for her clients.
She is an experienced litigator nearing 12 years qualification and many years of specialist complex injury work. She has her own mixed case load of medical negligence cases acting for both adults, children and bereaved families involving claims against GPs, fatal cases, delays in diagnosis of cancer and surgical errors involving bile duct injuries, loss of hearing and limb amputations.
Hannah has been instrumental in the development of the dedicated Women’s Health team with significant experience acting on behalf of women who have received delayed gynaecological cancer diagnoses or sustained maternal trauma in childbirth. Her reputation as a leader in this field continues to grow and she is a notable practitioner and campaigner for Women’s health.
She is passionate about helping these women whose lives have been significantly affected by their injuries causing significant pain and distress, ongoing embarrassment and lifelong adaptations needed to their daily routine due to incontinence. She is very approachable speaking to client’s about very personal and intimate health issues and prides herself on being empathetic and understanding.
She acts for families of patients who have died due to medical negligence. She feels strongly about the injustice of such limited compensation being available to bereaved families and the lack of funding for families at inquests and is campaigning to highlight this and fighting to change the law.
A powerful example of her work can be seen in Jennifer’s story, where she speaks about how Hannah supported and guided her through her medical negligence claim.
Hannah works closely with the rest of the team on more complex matters involving fatal and cancer cases. She manages her own team of qualified lawyers and trainee solicitors and helps supervise the progression of these cases and the continued development of her team.
Hannah prides herself on her exemplary client care and ensuring the best interests of her client’s are always at the heart of everything she does in progressing her claim. Clients are quick to provide unbidden feedback in sharing their thanks and comfort and empathy provided by Hannah during such a difficult time in their lives.
Hannah has been listed as a key lawyer in the last few years of the Legal 500 with the Women’s Health team being notable. The firm’s growing women’s health offering is driven by Joshua Hughes and Hannah Travis, who are advancing novel claims in areas such as endometriosis and fertility injury.
Some notable cases Hannah has worked on include:
- Settled a Womens Health surgical case for £1.15 million. The Claimant suffered a bowel perforation following bilateral oophorectomy resulting in near death and lifelong debilitating complications.
- Settled a Womens health surgical claim which resulted in a vesico-vaginal fistula and life long urinary problems including incontinence following hysterectomy.
- Acting for a mother suffering from physical and significant psychiatric injuries as a result of a negligently managed birth resulting in avoidable injuries to the mother and her baby. This claim included future costs for private midwife treatment for future births and private caesarean section costs.
- Acting for a mother suffering a 4th degree perineal tear following a negligently managed episiotomy during childbirth.
- Acting for a bereaved family after negligent cardio-thoracic surgery and care sadly led to the avoidable death of their father and husband. This action settled close to trial.
- Acting for a Claimant who had suffered an above the knee amputation following negligent vascular treatment and acting for a Claimant who suffered from total hearing loss following negligent ENT treatment.
- Acting for a bereaved husband who lost his wife due to negligent treatment in A+E failed to recognise or treat an aortic dissection.
- Acting for many Claimant’s who have suffered avoidable amputations due to vascular or diabetic failures or failures by GP’s in acting on red flag high risk symptoms.
- Acting for parents who have experienced still birth or neonatal loss of their baby due to birth trauma and negligence during delivery or antenatal care.
- Acting for many Claimants who have suffered delays in diagnosis of cancer including melanomas, cervical cancers, colorectal cancers all which have had a catastrophic impact on life expectancy, sadly often involving premature death.
Hannah also enjoys discussing important issues and not shying from difficult opinions and discussions during podcasts:
- National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation Report- a letdown?
- National maternity review: Accountability and patient safety
Charity involvement and Parliamentary Campaigning
Hannah is passionate about raising awareness and campaigning for change that will help support her clients and for advocating for improved patient safety.
With her passion in Women’s Health she has close relationships with and supports the following charities:
- Wellbeing of Women
- MASIC
- Birth Trauma Association
- Mama’s Embrace
Hannah also attends and contributes to parliamentary groups and is a regular attendee at the following APPGs in the house of commons:
- Womens and Equality Committee
- Maternity APPG
- Bably Loss APPG
- Black Maternal Health APPG
- Birth Trauma APPG
Media and publications
Hannah has featured as a legal expert in many national and online publications with her views on various important issues and in raising awareness.
Graduate guarantee job boost for newly qualified nurses and midwives – Healthcare Today
Cervical cancer changes – Stylist Magazine
What health journalists should know about duty of candour and system accountability – Medical Journalists’ Association
The NHS Endometriosis Pill Isn’t Enough For Women’s Health – HuffPost UK Life
Why more mums are advocating for themselves in pregnancy and labour – Net Mums
Professional memberships
• Senior Litigator – Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
• Action Against Medical Accidents
