Samuel David

Partner, Anthony Gold Solicitors

Sam is a Partner at Anthony Gold, specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence matters. Throughout his career he has worked closely with Partner Jenny Kennedy on a wide variety of cases. Sam’s clients come to him with a wide range of injuries, from catastrophic personal injury to road traffic accident cases as well as birth injuries through to cauda equina syndrome matters. He has wide experience of dealing with foreign national claims helping people who have been injured whilst working or holidaying in the UK, as well as British nationals injured abroad.

Making a difference at the start of a personal injury claim is very important to Sam and comprehensive rehabilitation for his clients is always at the forefront of his mind.

He is known for his ability to provide compassionate, pragmatic, and realistic legal advice to his clients and/or their families. He aggressively pursues the best financial settlement possible.

Sam is also a regular contributor to Kemp and Kemp.

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Qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS)

Practice notes

This Practice Note looks at how qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) works in practice. QOCS limits a losing claimant’s liability to pay costs. The potential exceptions to QOCS are considered, eg where a claim is struck out, the claim is found to be fundamentally dishonest or in a mixed claim where there are personal injury and non-personal injury elements. This Practice Note considers the use of Part 36 offers to put claimants at risk and the tactical use of late discontinuance and strike-out applications. This Practice Note also looks at how QOCS operates in cases with multiple defendants and pre and post LASPO 2012 funding arrangements.

PI & Clinical Negligence