Equity Partner and Head of Department, AVMA Panel Member since 1999. Previously voted Welsh lawyer of the year.
Ken Thomas is head of the team having acted on clinical negligence cases for 25 years. He has throughout that time dealt exclusively with such claims, one of the few solicitors in the region to truly do so. Ken has obtained approximately £30 million in compensation for his clients. He is a member of SCOPE and maintains a multi-million-pound case load of complex claims including fatal injury and brain damage cases. In 2006, Ken obtained APIL Senior Litigator status, and in 2012 became one of the country’s first APIL Clinical Negligence accredited specialists and an Assessor for new applicants.
Ken was very closely involved in the Welsh Government’s groundbreaking “Putting Things Right” scheme for resolving NHS concerns. This was introduced in 2011 and provided for the Welsh Government to pay fixed fees for legal advice for accredited specialist firms where the claim is against a Welsh NHS body. The Westminster Government is, of course, consulting on fixed fees at the present time.
Over a ten-year period, Ken wrote a monthly medico-legal column for a local paper and a regular column for the Western Mail (the national newspaper of Wales). Likewise, he has taken part in BBC Wales programs (both TV and radio) is repeatedly consulted by national media sources for comment, and has been asked to contribute to a Legal Journal on Clinical Negligence topics.
Ken has recently been once again named within ‘The Legal 500’ directory as a Leading Individual for his excellent reputation and experience in the medical negligence field.
