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Terry Regan

Director & Head of Medical Negligence

Main Areas of Work:

• Medical accidents
• Product liability side effects
• Catastrophic personal injury claims
• Disability discrimination and Equality Act cases

Terry has experience of multi-million pound settlements and has had success in the Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice.

Terry Regan attracts praise for his ‘sympathetic and patient handling of cases’ - The Legal 500 UK 2018

Terry is a member of the Law Society’s Clinical Negligence Specialist Panel. He is also a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Great / Notable achievements at Wake Smith:

• Owusu v Jackson and Oths (2006) – Catastrophic injury case arising from an accident in Jamaica. Success in European Court of Justice on jurisdictional point arising from interpretation of Brussels Convention
• S. Baker v Quantum and Oths - Representation at the Supreme Court
• C v Leeds Teaching Hospitals (2008) - Birth injury and settlement for £3.2m
• T v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals - Judgment for brain injury resulting from neo-natal care
• J v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals - Judgment for birth injury arising from failure to treat infection at birth

Recent articles by Terry Regan

Wake Smith secures a £12m settlement for child left with brain injury shortly after birth