New Partnership with Irwin Mitchell Solicitors
17 September, 2025
We are delighted to announce a new collaboration with Irwin Mitchell Solicitors. Through this partnership, we will share knowledge and ideas, helping to support and inform both Irwin Mitchell’s colleagues and clients as well as Colostomy UK’s beneficiaries and supporters.
As the largest dedicated medical negligence law firm in the country, Irwin Mitchell’s specialist team has many years of experience providing legal support and advice to those living with a stoma. They have helped clients with a wide range of medical claims including surgical errors, spinal injuries, birth injuries, delayed diagnosis and misdiagnosis of conditions such as cancer and diverticulitis, and many more.
Irwin Mitchell understand the sensitivities, complexities and challenges that ostomates can face in their everyday lives such as hernias, accessing public toilets, spillages and leaks, and difficulties with emptying and changing their stoma. They recognise that everyone’s needs are different and work to ensure ostomate clients can access the right legal support for the best possible outcome.
How They Can Support You
Irwin Mitchell’s experts can offer guidance and advice on a wide range of legal areas including:
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Medical negligence
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Employment law
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Deputyships and Trusts
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Wills and estate planning
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Family law
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Welfare benefits guidance and advice
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Planning for your future
You can find out more about how Irwin Mitchell can support you here.
World Ostomy Day
As part of this partnership, we are pleased to highlight World Ostomy Day: breaking down the stigma and raising awareness of the support available to those living with a stoma.
Get in Touch
If you would like to speak to Irwin Mitchell, please contact:
Sharon Williams
Partner
Email: sharon.williams@irwinmitchell.com
Phone: 0800 023 2233
Sharon specialises in representing ostomates in complex medical negligence cases, including those involving surgical errors, delayed diagnoses of cancer, and spinal injuries. She collaborates with several charities and support organisations both in the North West, where she’s based, and nationally.
