Caroline Wood completes 32 hours of work for the Pro Bono Pledge
Park Square BarristersThe Pro bono Pledge is set up by Advocate – the Bar’s national charity that finds free legal assistance from volunteer barristers.
Each year Advocate encourages members of the Bar to pledge 25 hours of pro bono work in the calendar year.
Caroline Wood has now completed this.
Kate Griffin, the Project and Engagement Coordinator for Advocate, said of Caroline: “It is wonderful to have such generous and compassionate barristers who continually make time in their busy schedules for pro bono work. Your commitment to access to justice is admirable”
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Caroline is regularly instructed in inquests acting for bereaved families, individual interested persons and for public or corporate bodies including ‘Article 2’ and jury inquests. The vast majority of inquests she attends relate to deaths arising in or linked to provision of healthcare such as in hospitals, care homes and deaths in custody, which dovetails with her clinical negligence work.
She will accept appropriate instructions on a CFA and has also provided representation pro bono for families instructed through AvMA.
Caroline also specialises in Clinical negligence and Industrial Disease civil cases, where she acts for both Claimants and Defendants, including private hospitals and Defence Unions. She accepts CFA instructions where appropriate.