Aidan is a Senior Associate in the Specialist Claims Department. He is an APIL accredited Senior Litigator and specialises in complex, high-value litigation, including large-scale group actions, defective medical device claims and multi-jurisdictional catastrophic injury claims.
Aidan leads the team acting in the Calea HPN group action, a High Court multi-defendant claim arising from the disruption to the supply of life-sustaining home parenteral nutrition (HPN), described nationally as a healthcare emergency. The claim is brought on behalf of a large group of patients against NHS Trusts and a commercial manufacturer and involves complex allegations of systemic and clinical failures in the commissioning, manufacture and continuity of essential treatment. He regularly conducts High Court case management in complex multi-party litigation, coordinating large claimant cohorts in sensitive and technically demanding claims.
Aidan’s practice includes defective medical device litigation, including metal-on-metal hip claims involving metallosis, revision surgery and permanent functional impairment. His work in this field has achieved substantial settlements for clients whose lives have been affected by unsafe or failing medical products, including acting in a fatal claim arising from the failure of an implanted heart assist device (LVAD).
He has extensive experience in cross-border litigation, acting for victims and families injured abroad in jurisdictions including Cyprus, France, Gabon, Kenya and Spain. He secured a multi-million-pound settlement in the High Court for a French national who sustained catastrophic hypoxic brain injury while working in Africa, in proceedings involving multiple defendants across three jurisdictions.
In addition to his practice, Aidan sits as a fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal (War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber), hearing appeals brought by serving and former members of the armed forces concerning entitlement to compensation for injury, illness or death arising from military service.
Career history
Aidan joined Hugh James in 2010 and qualified in 2015. He became a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) in 2016, achieved APIL Senior Litigator accreditation in 2021 and has served on the APIL Engagement Panel since 2021.