Susan specialises in inquests and investigations, professional regulation and public law.

She has over 15 years' experience advising clients across a range of sectors including the NHS, local authorities and independent health and social care providers. Susan also spent a number of years working as an in-house senior solicitor at a leading medical defence organisation.

Susan regularly advises organisations and individual medical and care professionals in connection with serious adverse incidents, including police investigations and internal and external serious incident/patient safety investigations. She regularly advises and represents NHS acute and mental health trusts and independent care providers in Coronial proceedings including complex Article 2 inquests.

Susan also has extensive experience of advising healthcare professionals in investigations into their fitness to practise, both at a local level and before their professional regulators including the GMC, the GDC and the NMC.

Susan also regularly acts for NHS bodies and local authorities in judicial reviews, including acting for Coroners in challenges to their decision-making; and acting for NHS trusts in challenges to their decisions under the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015.

Relevant experience includes:

• Successfully defending an NHS Trust in a claim for judicial review of their decisions regarding the delivery of treatment to a patient who was an overseas visitor but who required some treatment without upfront payment on the basis that it was Susan worked closely with the Trust and its clinicians to ensure that the clinical and legal decision-making was sound; and to ultimately defend the trust at a hearing, at which the claim for judicial review was dismissed. R (OK) v Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust[2021] EWHC 3165 (Admin).
• Representing a doctor in an investigation into their fitness to practise arising from an admitted sexual relationship with a vulnerable pati Susan worked with the doctor throughout the course of the lengthy GMC investigation and the Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing. She also subsequently acted for them in the High Court when the GMC sought to appeal the MPT's decision not to erase the doctor from the medical register.
• Acting for an NHS mental health trust in an Article 2 jury inquest into the suicide of a young adult in Susan represented the trust at a number of pre-inquest review hearings and at the two-week inquest involving multiple interested persons.