Katy Barraclough Jones

Katy is a senior associate in Kennedys’ private healthcare team, based in Newcastle. She joined Kennedys in July 2024, and qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales in 2015.

Katy specialises in Clinical Negligence/Malpractice.

Katy is instructed by major private healthcare insurers and their insureds. She defends a wide range of private healthcare claims against clinicians in a variety of settings, including dental, mental health facilities, hospitals, surgical and physiotherapy.

Katy is part of a team offering major corporate health and social care providers a unique Third Party Administrator (TPA) service and regularly advises private medical malpractice insurers, brokers, corporate insureds and individual insureds.

Katy has extensive experience in defending both pre-action claims and litigated claims, including complex multiple Defendant matters.

Qualifications

• Qualified as a Solicitor in 2017
• LLB (Exempting) degree (First Class Honours) 2008 – 2012, Northumbria University