Claire Boardman

Claire in an Associate Solicitor in the Clinical Negligence team at JMW.

With a busy and mixed case-load Claire frequently handle claims relating to orthopaedic injuries, cancer misdiagnoses, surgical errors, and poor nursing care as well as assisting on and running child brain injury cases.

She work across all areas of medical negligence and has a particularly interested in cases involving obstetric and gynaecology care.

Prior to joining JMW Claire worked at Express Solicitors where she completed her training contract. She has worked in clinical negligence since January 2012 and qualified as a solicitor in September 2014.

She completed her degree in Ancient History at the University of Nottingham and graduated in 2008. She then studied for a Graduate Diploma in Law at BPP in 2009 and completed her Legal Practice Certificate at BPP in 2010.

Claire is a trustee of the charity Jolly Josh, which supports children with complex needs and their families and helps families Jolly Josh support. As well as taking part in fundraisers for the charity. This has included organising a JMW staff quiz and entering a fun run with her family and other JMW team members.

• £45,000.00 for delay in diagnosis of an ectopic pregnancy resulting in loss of a fallopian tube
• £157,500.00 secured for a widow of a deceased man following failure to diagnose and treat underlying condition resulting in multiple infections and sadly his death.
• £300,000.00 following damage to the biliary tree during gallbladder removal.

• "Claire and her team have been great throughout the whole process of my claim. I am happy with the outcome and would definitely recommend. After years of upset of loosing my baby and the ability to have another naturally, I can now go ahead with IVF. Thanks again Claire.”
• "Many thanks to Claire Boardman and her team for dealing with my medical negligence claim. I would recommend them to anyone who needed the professional help and expertise that was provided to me. Right from the start of my claim, Claire explained the process clearly and eased all my reservations that I had. Every step of my claim I was kept up to date. I was provided with expert medical professionals to substantiate my claim. Any questions I had were promptly answered by email. Claire and her team at JMW have been very supportive throughout the whole process.”
• “I would like to thank Claire and her team for believing in us right from the start and never giving up.“
• “My experience with Claire and JMW has been outstanding. I would recommend without hesitation. I have been kept informed at every stage and other professionals Claire brought in to support proceedings were highly experienced and knowledgeable, offering valuable input and helping to secure a positive outcome. Very happy with the service I’ve received from JMW and Claire in particular. I would use JMW again and recommend them with complete confidence.”
• “Claire and her team were able to help me through a very difficult time. They were efficient and informative at all times. Due to several complexities my case took longer than originally anticipated, Claire was very patient with me always asking for updates etc. The end result was much better than I expected, both Claire the barrister and team were excellent and I am very grateful to them.”