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Specialist medical negligence litigation

Birth injury
lawyers.

When avoidable failures in maternity or neonatal care change a child’s life, specialist legal representation matters.
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031 305 3844

25+ years

Director’s personal injury experience

7 specialists

Experienced personal injury attorneys

Constitutional Court

Proven appellate litigation experience

No win, no fee

Subject to merits & agreement
For children. For families.
For their future.
A birth injury claim can involve complex obstetric, neonatal and neurological evidence. The question is not simply whether something went wrong, but whether substandard care caused preventable harm.

JRR Attorneys focuses on personal injury and medical negligence litigation. We obtain and analyse medical records, work with leading medico-legal experts and build the evidence required to test negligence and causation. Where a viable claim exists, we pursue compensation for the child’s proven lifelong needs.

“Parents often come to us not knowing whether negligence occurred. Our job is to investigate the medicine, test the evidence and give them a clear legal answer.”

Birth injury expertise

Cases we investigate.

Not every poor outcome is negligence. We investigate whether the care before, during or after birth fell below the required standard and caused injury.

01

Cerebral palsy

Claims involving avoidable brain injury, oxygen deprivation, delayed intervention
or failures during labour and delivery.

02

HIE & birth asphyxia

Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy and brain injury associated with inadequate oxygen supply before or during birth.

03

ROP & infant blindness

Retinopathy of prematurity claims involving screening, monitoring, oxygen management or delayed treatment.

04

Jaundice & kernicterus

Severe hyperbilirubinaemia and neurological injury where jaundice was not
adequately identified, monitored or treated.

05

Delayed Caesarean section

Cases involving signs of foetal distress where escalation or emergency delivery may
have been unreasonably delayed.

06

Neonatal negligence

Serious injury arising in neonatal or NICU care, including monitoring failures, infection and other avoidable complications.
JRR court success · Cerebral palsy

A case pursued all the way to the Constitutional Court.

JRR acted for the mother of a child with cerebral palsy after obtaining the available records and instructing specialist medical experts. The hospital and MEC for Health appealed the High Court outcome.
The Constitutional Court ultimately confirmed the client’s victory, with the hospital ordered to meet 100% of the proven damages.
Another JRR result

Retinopathy of prematurity.

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A child who became blind shortly after birth had previously been advised by another firm that the claim had no merits. The family approached JRR for a second opinion.

After examining the records, taking a detailed history and conducting further investigation, JRR pursued the matter in the High Court.

The case proceeded through a hard-fought trial and JRR’s client succeeded. It is a useful example of why serious neonatal cases require careful expert investigation rather than assumptions about whether a claim is viable.

How we help

From first conversation to final resolution.

01

Listen

We take a detailed history of the pregnancy, labour, delivery, neonatal care and the child’s condition.

02

Investigate

We obtain the relevant medical records and identify the clinical issues that require expert assessment.

03

Build the evidence

Leading medical experts assess negligence, causation, prognosis and the child’s future care requirements.

04

Pursue the claim

Where the evidence supports a claim, we pursue the responsible hospital or healthcare provider for proven damages.
Why JRR

Complex medical litigation is what we do.

JRR represents plaintiffs in personal injury and medical negligence matters and works with leading South African and international medical experts.

 

  • Specialist plaintiff practice
  • High Court litigation
  • SCA & Constitutional Court experience
  • Medico-legal expert network
  • Nationwide representation
  • Direct, specialist case assessment
Fee structure

No win, no fee.

After consultation and review of the necessary documents, JRR may accept a matter on a contingency basis where the case has sufficient prospects of success.
Any contingency arrangement is subject to the applicable agreement and South African law.
Confidential case assessment

Tell us what happened.

You do not need to know whether negligence occurred before contacting us.
Give us the basic details and a member of the JRR team can assess what information or medical records may be required next.
Unit 3, 72 Richefond Circle
Ridgeside, Umhlanga
info@jrr.co.za
031 305 3844