Personal Injury

Ana undertakes advocacy and advisory work on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants. Before joining Chambers Ana spent time working in the legal department of a major insurance company and thus understands litigation from the perspective of an the insurer as well as that of the individual client.

Ana is regularly instructed on the following matters:

• Road traffic accidents including MIB claims, credit hire and fraud;
• Occupier’s Liability,
• Public Liability,
• Employer’s Liability including stress at work and assault cases,
• CICA claims.

Ana is continuing to expand her areas of expertise and practice in particular in relation to disease work.

In addition to case management and trial work Ana frequently undertakes applications involving all aspects of civil procedure including expert evidence, disclosure, strike out, limitation, resiling from admissions, summary judgment, setting aside default judgments and costs.

Whilst the majority of her work is in the fast track Ana is increasingly being called upon to conduct and advise on multi-track cases both at an interlocutory stage and through to trial.

Ana regularly lectures to both Claimant and Defendant solicitors and their lay clients.

In addition Ana undertakes general civil cases including contract law, housing law, insolvency, mental health, inquests and discrimination.

Relevant Memberships:
• PIBA

Employment

Ana appears for national companies, local authorities, the police, private and public companies, sole traders, trade unions and individual claimants in various Tribunals across the country. Her experience includes all types of discrimination, breach of contract, unlawful deductions from wages, redundancy, TUPE and unfair/constructive/wrongful dismissal.

Ana covers all types of hearing including strike out/deposit applications, case management discussions, interim relief, pre-hearing review’s, final hearings and remedy hearings. As a result of her experience Ana is required by her clients to travel all over the UK in order to represent their needs. This provides her with a useful insight into the trends of decisions in the various tribunal centres.

In addition to advocacy Ana regularly provides written opinions and advice in conference. She is also able to draft contracts of employment, compromise agreements and any document needed in the course of a tribunal claim.

Examples of work undertaken:

Unfair Dismissal/Constructive dismissal:

Razak v Royal Mail – instructed by Weightmans Liverpool
Successful represented the Respondent in an unfair dismissal case involving alleged breach of Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.

Broome v William Hill – instructed by John A Behn Twyford Liverpool.
Represented the Claimant both at an application for interim relief and thereafter to a successful conclusion at final hearing in a case involving dismissal.

Discrimination:

Lema v OCS – instructed by Weightmans Liverpool.
Successfully represented the Respondent in a complex four-day race discrimination case in the Central London Tribunal. Additional difficulties were encountered due to there being multiple interpreters and frequent and late disclosure by the Claimant.

Timperley v Timperley – instructed by Maxwell Hodge Liverpool
Successfully represented the Claimant at a PHR to determine whether the Claimant was disabled and thereafter at final hearing.

Landry v Glennon – instructed by Maxwell Hodge Liverpool
Successfully represented the Claimant at a two-day hearing in a sex discrimination claim that is currently on appeal.

Buchan v OCS – instructed by Weightmans Liverpool
Successfully represented the Respondent at a PHR where the claim was struck out after arguing that there could be no race discrimination where the Respondent had a legal duty under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 to check the Claimant’s employment status.

Tupe

Ankers v Clearsprings Management Limited – instructed by McKeowns
Successfully represented a Claimant in a large multi-party action, which spanned a number of years concerning service provision change under the 2006 regulations and issues of fragmentation.

Other

Hill v CSS and others – instructed by Maxwell Hodge Liverpool
Successfully represented the Claimant both at PHR and final hearing on an unfair dismissal case in which the Respondent argued that they were not the Claimant’s employer.

Bullman v Warrington Borough Council – instructed by Weightmans Liverpool
Successfully represented the Respondent in an application for a deposit order.

Horrigan v Pepsico –instructed by Pepsico Limited
Successfully represented the Respondent in a strike out application.

Discrimination outside of Employment

Brace v Merseytravel – instructed by Merseytravel
Successfully represented the Defendant in a discrimination case in the County Court in which the Claimant sought to argue that charging him for replacement concessionary passes was discriminatory as his disability made him more prone to loose his pass.

Memberships

ELA

Clinical Negligence

Ana has a particular interest in Clinical Negligence and is continuing to expand her practice in this area.

Ana has experience in drafting statements of case.

As part of the compulsory ‘New Practitioners advocacy training’ Ana successfully cross-examined a Consultant Uro-gynaecologist in a mock clinical negligence trial that took place in front of senior clinical negligence practitioners from the London Bar and members of the Judiciary.