Gerwyn Samuel > Doughty Street Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Gerwyn Samuel

Work Department

Position

Gerwyn acts for substantial numbers of Claimants in a wide range of complex multi track clinical negligence and personal injury cases each year.

The bulk of his practice consists of cases involving spinal tumours and spinal cord and brain injuries. He also undertakes cases involving brain injury in young neonates arising from birth injuries or meningitis and is frequently instructed in inquests which involve medical or toxicological issues or which raise unusual points of medical law.  He is listed in Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.

Career

Year of Call: 1986; Gray’s Inn.

Much of Gerwyn’s personal injury experience relates to catastrophic injuries arising from road traffic accidents and accidents on building sites. He was counsel for the Claimant in the ground breaking case of Biesheuvel v Birrell [1999 PIQR Q40], a case involving a Dutch student who was rendered tetraplegic and subsequently recovered an award of £9.2 million.

Gerwyn has particular expertise in:

• persistent vegetative state and locked in syndrome, including the right to die arguments that arisng;
• amputee claims including both above and below knee amputations, bilateral amputations and amputation of upper limbs;
• catastrophic claims involving foreign clients where the damages claimed are often different to UK claims;
• cross over claims involving Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury.

Memberships

Association of Personal Injury Lawyers

Action Against Medical Accidents

Personal Injury Bar Association

Professional Negligence Bar Association

Education

Patchway High School, Bristol; Jesus College, Oxford (MA Jurisprudence).

Leisure

Choral singing, rugby.