2010                         Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional Panel)

2009                        Appointed Grade 4 prosecutor

2007                        Appointed to Attorney General’s Unified List of Prosecuting Counsel (B Panel)

                                Called to the Bar of Northern Ireland

1998                        Called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) 

1994                        Trinity College, Cambridge MA (Hons) (Law)

Whittaker Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge

Sam also practises from Park Court Chambers, Leeds.

Email: sgreen@3serjeantsinn.com 

Legal 500 2010:  Samuel Green "Has considerable commercial acumen and is a master tactician"

Legal 500 2007: Samuel Green is someone who "brings fraud experience to his commercial and regulatory practice"...

Legal 500 2006: “Samuel Green combines fraud experience with commercial and regulatory expertise”.

Legal 500 2005: “Samuel Green is moving through the ranks and combines fraud expertise with an interest in regulatory and civil matters”.

Additionally, Sam has been cited in the 2007 edition of Legal Experts as an “expert” in commercial law.

Disciplinary work

In addition to a substantial heavyweight criminal practice, Sam regularly receives instructions in disciplinary work (particularly cases involving police officers) and regulatory work (primarily in the form of instructions to prosecute cases arising from breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974). 

Sam is regularly instructed to act in police misconduct hearings and he also receives instructions to act in hearings before other professional discipliniary bodies including the General Medical Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal.

Re PC Maqbool (West Yorkshire Police HQ, January 2006) – Acted for the accused officer at the first ever full hearing within the West Yorkshire Police arising from unsatisfactory attendance under Police (Efficiency) Regulations 1999 (as amended). 
 
Re PC Sarah Simms & Others (Misconduct Hearing, Derbyshire, October 2006) – Defended one of seven officers whose alleged misconduct arose over alleged flawed investigation of a campaign of harassment by a man called Mark Dyche of his estranged partner, a woman called Tanya Moore (Dyche was prosecuted to conviction for Moore’s murder at Nottingham Crown Court in 2005).

Re PC A (Misconduct Hearing, January 2007) – Defending allegations of sexual abuse of trust by force domestic violence officer.

Re Bettley (Misconduct Hearing, March 2009) - Presenting case against officer accused of membership of BNP.

Re Marsh (Nursing and Midwifery Council, January 2010) - Defended Registered Mental Nurse against allegations of abuse and neglect of vulnerable care home residents. No impairment found and registrant explicitly exonerated by the Panel.

Previously advised and retained to act for solicitor’s firm accused of improper and self-serving approach to settling claims on behalf of miners for whom it acted.