Siobhan Kelly
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Personal Profile
Siobhan Kelly is a civil specialist whose principal areas of expertise are in clinical negligence and personal injury law. Siobhan acts for Claimant’s in Clinical Negligence cases and has experience of cases involving negligent birth and CP claims, delayed treatment, ophthalmology, surgery and drug overdose. She frequently acts for both Claimants and Defendants in all types of personal injury claim including RTA's, accidents at work, occupational disease cases, mining, trippers and slippers. Her practice also encompasses property law, insolvency, and public interest immunity.
Siobhan’s principal areas of expertise are in Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury law. Claim values range from a few thousand to in excess of £5million
Fields of Work
Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, General Common Law, Property Law, Insolvency and Public Interest Immunity.
Languages
English (Native)
French (Passable spoken and written)
Other Relevant Activities
November 2007 and continuing - Treasurer, North Eastern Circuit having been a member of the Circuit Executive since 2003.
December 2000 and continuing - Member of the Management Committee of Paradise Chambers
November 2009 and continuing - North Eastern Circuit Committee Member of the Professional Negligence Bar Association
June 2009 and continuing - Committee Member St Vincent de Paul Furniture Store, Sheffield
June 2008 to June 2009 President – South Yorkshire Medico-Legal Society, having been a committee member since 2000
Areas of Expertise:
Email: clerk@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk
Telephone: 0114 273 8951
Clinical Negligence
Siobhan acts for Claimant’s in Clinical Negligence cases and has experience of cases involving negligent birth and CP claims, delayed treatment, ophthalmology, surgery and drug overdose.
She has a niche Public Interest Immunity practice. She is frequently instructed by Local Authorities to deal with applications in the Crown Court for disclosure of sensitive material, usually but not exclusively, in child sex abuse cases. As independent counsel, she vets the material for relevance to issues raised in the criminal proceedings. She acted for Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council in the PII proceedings concerning the 2 “Edlington” boys in both the Crown and the Family Courts.
She was initially second junior counsel then promoted to first junior counsel for the Claimant (with Gary Burrell QC and Graham Robinson – as they then were) in the case of Roe v Sheffield Light Railway Ltd and Sheffield City Council and others [2003] EWCA Civ 1: (2003) 2 WLR 848: (2004) QB 653, a test case arising out of road traffic accidents which lose control because of the presence of tram tracks in the highway. The multi-party litigation went to the Court of Appeal on a number of issues before resolving. Siobhan represented most of the other Claimants in the other actions once the stays were lifted after resolution of the Roe litigation.
Professional Associations
Personal Injuries Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association