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Strype Barristers LLP specializes in medical malpractice and catastrophic personal injury cases. The firm represents those who are seriously injured, such as those suffering a spinal cord injury, and who may have received that injury through a motor vehicle accident or through medical malpractice. The firm also does extensive work on obstetrical and neonatal cases.

"I look after cases where babies are severely damaged at birth not babies who are genetically damaged prior to birth. We look at those babies who are not given a chance at a normal life because of a deficient medical delivery," says Strype. "These are very difficult cases to analyze because there are so many variables that go in to certain types of babies who are born mentally and sometimes physically deficient."

Malpractice and catastrophic personal injury cases require expert medical knowledge. Not only is Strype well read in medical literature, but he's respected and trusted by many in the medical profession.

"Medical professionals don't jump at the opportunity of getting involved in a medical malpractice case. They are very conservative and need to be convinced that we know what we're doing in an effort to make the case for our clients," says Strype. "I have been vetted many times by the experts I have used over the years. Once they come on board I am putting their reputations at risk. And they want to be sure that I understand what they are talking about and can present the case aggressively."

Strype also teams with expert economists, actuaries and Chartered Accountants to accurately forecast the long-term financial needs of clients. In the case of injured infants, that could mean forecasting 60 or 70 years into the future.

"That is no small difficulty," explains Strype. "You have to try and predict what the government system will afford these people in the future and try to predict whether these people will deteriorate in the future - because if they do, and you don't take that into consideration, that person could be very hard done by when they are at their most vulnerable later in their lives."