Iona Meeres-Young | Fieldfisher
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Professional background

Professional background

I act solely for Claimants who have been catastrophically injured by complex medical accidents. I am an accredited expert on specialist AvMA and Law Society Clinical Negligence Panels.

The combination of my medical and legal training enables me to meticulously analyse each case and cut to the issues quickly and thoroughly. I work tirelessly to help clients rebuild their lives by securing early funds for the best possible care and rehabilitation, including moving to adapted accommodation where needed. Early intervention during the course of a claim helps restore the lives and independence of the injured and their families. 

My particular expertise includes:

Where appropriate, I work with the media to highlight clinical negligence issues in the public interest. I have featured across more than 100 different media outlets and am regularly interviewed on television news channels.

I am a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)

Awards & recognition

Awards & recognition

Chambers & Partners 2026
She is an extremely impressive woman with real gravitas.
Chambers & Partners 2025
She is excellent. She does heavy cases and does them well.
Chambers & Partners 2024
She's a very quietly effective operator. She's ahead of others by two steps and is really good.
Chambers & Partners 2024
She's got a steady reputation in clinical negligence.
Legal 500 2024
Iona Meeres-Young is a wonderful litigator with great calm under fire and excellent judgement.
Chambers & Partners 2023
Iona Meeres-Young is amazing - without her guidance we wouldn't have reached the conclusion we did; she was the strength that got us through the case. We can't thank her enough.
Legal 500 2023
Iona Meeres-Young has been a great professional support to us. She explained the process very clearly to us at each stage and would sum up and simplify medical terms and next stages of the case. Iona remained confident that our case was going in the right direction and with all evidence and the professional team of experts she instructed, she reached such a positive outcome for our son that has truly changed his life already. We cannot thank her enough and wouldn’t hesitate in recommending her to other parents in the future.

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Authored pieces

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News

Partner Promotions 2026

01.04.2026
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Medical Negligence
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East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust named in Wes Streeting's promise to 'drain NHS swamp'

25.03.2026
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Medical Negligence
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Supreme Court backs lifelong loss of earnings for children in injury claims

23.02.2026
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Medical Negligence
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Depressingly familiar maternity failings raised by interim Government report

06.01.2026
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Medical Negligence
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Seasoned lawyers expand medical negligence team into Cambridge and East Anglia

05.01.2026
We are very pleased to welcomepartner Guy Forster and director Gurpreet Lalli to our Personal Injury and Medical Negligence team. Both join us from Irwin Mitchell.
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What others say…

Chambers & Partners 2026
She is an extremely impressive woman with real gravitas.
Chambers & Partners 2025
She is excellent. She does heavy cases and does them well.
Chambers & Partners 2024
She's a very quietly effective operator. She's ahead of others by two steps and is really good.