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 2007,2008,2009 and 2010 editions of Legal Experts as an “expert” in commercial litigation.

Judicial Review

In recent years, judicial review claims have formed a significant aspect of Sam's practice.  His recent judicial review appearances have included the Administrative Court at Leeds, Manchester and London, as well as the Northern Irish High Court.

Recent experience

• Siberry's Application [2008] NIQB 147 (High Court of Northern Ireland).  Successful application for judicial review of decision of Senior Coroner to call Prisoner Ombudsman for Northern Ireland to give non-expert opinion evidence on standard of medical care afforded to deceased prison inmate.
• R (Muldoon) v Independent Police Complaints Commission [2009] EWHC 3633 Admin.  Successfully defended IPCC against allegations of bias and impropriety in its scrutiny of complaints about a Merseyside Police investigation of conduct of various police officers in their dealings with the Claimant's son.
• R (Northumbria Police Authority) v Broome (March 2010).  Successful challenge to Selected Medical Practitioner's approach to review, under Regulation 37(1) of the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006, of a pensioner's degree of disablement.
• R (North Yorkshire Police Authority) v IPCC [2010] EWHC 1690 (Admin).  Whether complaint about refusal by Chief Constable personally to investigate alleged criminal wrongdoing amounted to an issue relating to his personal conduct or one relating to the direction and control of his force.  (Led by John Beggs QC.)
• R (Flint) v Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police [2010] EWHC 2025 (Admin). Whether Regulation 5(4) of the Police Regulations 2003 imposed a mandatory obligation on the Chief Constable to re-characterise a part-time employee as a full-time one, so as to enhance sick-pay entitlement.

Inquests

Extensive knowledge of coronial law and the body of law expounding the effect of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights on the inquest process.

Recent experience

• 2008  -  before Deputy West Yorkshire Coroner (and a jury), arising from death of innocent third party during successful operation to apprehend drug dealer: represented police officer whose conduct one other interested person in particular wanted to impugn.
• 2008  -  before Greater Belfast Coroner, arising from death of an elderly woman following post operative complications: represented one of the two consultant surgeons.
• 2008  -  before Deputy South Yorkshire Coroner (and a jury), arising from death of prison inmate from septicaemia: represented one of the prison doctors.
• 2009  -  represented psychiatrist in inquest arising from the death of a child and her mother: the mother smothered her daughter, then took her own life.
• 2010  -  represented (as led junior) retired GP in inquest into deaths of three of his terminally ill patients.  Key issues were the amounts of morphine administered to his patients in their final hours, the justifcation for the doses selected and whether those dosages accelerated or hastened death.