Outer Temple Chambers
Barristers
Samantha Presland
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Work Department
Court of Protection, Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury
Position
Barrister specialising in Court of Protection, Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury.
Career
Samantha Presland was called to the bar in 2001.
Samantha Presland specialises in the fields of Court of Protection, Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury. She also has an extensive Inquests practice, spanning each of the foregoing fields of specialism. Sam has a particular interest and expertise in aspects of mental capacity law and in psychiatric injury cases.
She appears in the Court of Appeal, High Court, County Court and Coroners Courts.
Sam acts for claimants, insured defendants and NHS Resolve alike in all of her practice areas. Within her Court of Protection practice she acts for families, the Official Solicitor, the Office of the Public Guardian, Health Trusts and Local Authorities.
She brings to each and every case the same analytical approach, attention to detail, practical solutions and client focused, open and sensitive manner.
Sam is a qualified mediator and a member of the Civil Mediation Council, acting as a mediator in various civil and community matters. She finds her mediation experience and skills of particular value when acting in matters where compromise and problem-solving are preferable to combative litigation, in order that best interests are met. Sam has a genuine ability to relate compassionately but constructively with distressed families, as well as to work to achieve practical solutions with professional parties.
She is extremely approachable in her communications with both professional and lay clients. At the pre-instruction stage, Sam is always happy to discuss cases informally. As to urgent applications to the Court of Protection and in inherent jurisdiction cases, she is likewise ready to be contacted directly to expedite matters.
Sam accepts instructions from solicitors, as well as from members of the public, the latter under the Bar Council’s Public Access (i.e. Direct Access) scheme.
Sam sits in the County Court as Civil Recorder in all civil legal matters and in the Crown Court as a Criminal Recorder with a Serious Sexual Offences ticket.
She is happy to provide, or assist with, training across any of her areas of practice, for solicitors who may wish to meet her to see how she approaches legal issues.