Ben Ward

Solicitor - Partner

SRA ID: 413996

Ben acts for individuals who have suffered catastrophic injury as a result of medical negligence. He specialises in birth injuries, adult brain injury, amputation and paraplegia. Ben joined the firm as a trainee in 2008 and is a Partner within the firm’s highly acclaimed medical negligence team. His family background is in medicine and this has provided him with a good grounding in medical knowledge. In the early part of his career, he became renowned regionally for acting on behalf of families at Inquest whose loved ones had died whilst being detained under the Mental Health Act or had taken their own lives whilst trying to access psychiatric services. He became a regular contributor to local media broadcasts on the levels of care being offered by psychiatric services in the local region and was a strong advocate for service improvement. In large part, as a result of his work representing bereaved families, Ben started to gain recognition within his field and was awarded ‘Young Lawyer of the Year’ award at the 2014 LawNet Awards. Ben now represents catastrophically injured clients. He is known for taking on difficult cases and achieving excellent results. A recent example of this was the 100% liability settlement he achieved for a young adult who suffered cerebral palsy and bilateral Erb’s palsy at birth 22 years ago. The case had previously been discontinued by another law firm and the legal aid funding certificate discharged before Ben’s instruction.