Ana Samuel

Practice Areas

Inquest law and clinical negligence. Reported decisions: R (Maguire) v HM Senior Coroner for Blackpool and Fylde and R (Chidlow) v HM Senior Coroner for Blackpool and Fylde.

Career

Ana began her practice as a common law practitioner, quickly specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence. Under the tutelage of Charles Feeny, she has developed an extensive and varied clinical negligence practice relative to her call, dealing with high value and complex cases including those involving catastrophic brain injury, amputations, and cauda equina. Claimants and Defendants, including NHS Resolution, regularly instruct her. Ana has conduct of high value claims, in excess of £2,000,000. Ana also sits as an Assistant Coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, has been invaluable, given the frequent overlap between hospital deaths and clinical negligence claims. She frequently undertakes complex inquest work including Article 2 and jury inquests, predominately on behalf of NHS Trusts, either freestanding or those linked to clinical negligence claims, or the government legal department. Ana has also been instructed as counsel to the inquest. In 2020 Ana was appointed to the CEDR panel as a mediator and to the Attorney General Regional Civil Panel (B). Ana sits on the Coroners’ Society Law review committee and is the lead governor for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

Professional Memberships

PIBA, CEDR, Coroners' Society

Publications

Clinical Risk:

1) Habeas corpus? Body or evidence?: Clinical Risk

2) She should have died hereafter? When is death caused in law by breach of duty?: Feeny, Samuel, Austin: Clinical Risk