Kerstin Scheel

Although based in our Bristol office, Kerstin works with clients across the country, including London, Manchester, Gloucestershire and Wales.

After joining RWK Goodman in 2009, Kerstin nuanced her practice area to focus mainly in obstetric and neonatal cases, representing children and young adults who suffered neurological injuries before, during or after their birth. Her main areas of expertise relate to hypoxic birth injury, cord prolapse, impacted fetal head, twin and triplet pregnancy complications, meningitis and Group B Strep infection related injuries.

Kerstin works closely with Abigail Ringer in progressing and quantifying maximum severity complex cases.

Kerstin also sub-specialises in inquest cases, focusing on medical/professional negligence related deaths and also those involving Article II of the Human Rights Act.

Kerstin is independently ranked in Band 1 by the Chambers & Partners guide to the legal profession and recognised as a “Leader in her field“. It comments: “Kerstin is at the top of the game in cerebral palsy work in the UK.”

Sources call her “excellent, thorough, informed and very sensitive to the clients’ requirements whilst retaining a correct pragmatism“, and report she is “very driven, very much all about the client and will really fight hard”.

She has also been credited by fellow solicitors as “ambitious, tenacious and visible“ and that “Kerstin is an absolutely excellent thinker with an impressive grasp of both the clinical issues and also the legal context.”

Clients asked by the Chambers & Partners directory describe Kerstin as “excellent, well organised, careful, conscientious and courteous“. She has also been independently praised by one client in the same source as “very clever, supportive and thorough“.

The Legal 500 UK also celebrate Kerstin, who “stands out for her ‘exceptional analysis’“.

She also has both AvMA and Law Society Clinical Negligence Panel Accreditations and is an accredited Senior Litigator with APIL.

Kerstin is a member of the Avon and Bristol Law Centre and sat on an NHS Health Research Ethics Committee Panel for 10 years. She is a Trustee of the PROMPT Maternity Foundation.