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Beth is a second six pupil who accepts instructions in clinical negligence, personal injury, Court of Protection, inquests and actions against the police matters. 

Before coming to the Bar, Beth was the Judicial Assistant to Lady Justice Whipple and Lord Justice Green in the Court of Appeal. Cases that Beth drafted bench memoranda for include:

  • Young v Downey [2025] EWCA Civ 177 (secondary victim claims for psychiatric injury).
  • Clarke v Poole & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 447 (consent to diagnostic testing).
  • Morrow v HM Assistant Coroner for Merseyside [2025] EWHC 935 (Admin). 

Beth has also worked in the clinical negligence team at Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors, including working on inquests for families involved in the Lampard Inquiry, and in the property, family and trust team at the Law Commission. 

Clinical negligence and personal injury

Beth is instructed in fast-track trials, cost and case management hearings, infant and incapacitous claimant settlement approval hearings, allocation hearings and other interim hearings. 

Beth also advises on liability and quantum and has drafted several schedules of loss. 

Examples of recent work include: 

  • Assisting Nick Brown and Rachel Woodward with Hillsborough civil claims for misfeasance spanning a 37+ year period.
  • Assisting Oliver Lewis with quantum in a fatal accident claim with four claimants.
  • Military noise induced hearing loss claims.
  • Road traffic accident claims. 
Court of Protection

Beth acts in deprivation of liberty and welfare cases under sections 16 and 21A of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. She represents P (by their litigation friend), family members and public bodies such as local authorities. 

Beth has advised clients on the application of the recent Supreme Court judgment of A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a Devolution Issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 [2026] UKSC 16.

Examples of recent work include: 

  • Acting for the applicant local authority in a case about deprivation of a liberty of a 16-year-old child.
  • Acting for the local authority in an application for property and affairs deputyship.
  • Acting for P where best interests on residence and care was contested.
  • Acting for P where he could not verbally communicate his wishes and feelings.
  • Acting for P in a contested capacity case.
  • Drafting statements of facts and grounds.
  • Undertaking research on capacity to enter into sexual relations. 
Inquests

Beth represents bereaved families and other interested persons. Examples of recent work include:

  • Representing the family in a pre-inquest review hearing in a case concerning the death of a prisoner who was subject to ACCT procedures.
  • Representing the family in pre-inquest review hearing in a case concerning an individual with a mental health history spanning three decades.
  • Assisting Oliver Lewis in an inquest concerning the death of a patient who was recently discharged from a mental health hospital. 
Actions against the police

Beth acts for claimants in civil claims against the police. Examples of recent work include:

  • Advising on the merits of false imprisonment and trespass claims.
  • Drafting particulars of claim and a schedule of loss in a police assault and false imprisonment claim with two claimants.