Ali Cloak
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Clinical Negligence: Mainly Claimant
Band 3
About
Provided by Ali Cloak
Practice Areas
Surgical claims | Cancer | Amputation | Brain injury | Orthopaedic injuries | Fatal claims | Stillbirth and neonatal claims | Secondary victim claims | Social care
Career
Ali is a Partner in RWK Goodman's Medical Negligence department and leads the firm’s inquest team.
She specialises in advising clients in relation to coroner’s inquests and claims involving catastrophic injury.
She is one of a select few practitioners nationwide to hold APIL’s fatal specialist status, an accreditation reserved for those dedicated to achieving the best outcomes for those pursuing claims when a loved one has died through negligence.
Ali is recommended by the the leading legal directories, in which she is praised for her technical expertise and the tailored support she offers her clients.
She is recognised for her experience in complex and especially sensitive cases and has extensive knowledge of Article 2 inquests, including deaths in prison, or deaths involving mental health treatment.
Professional Memberships
APIL (Fatal Specialist and Senior Litigator status)
Bristol Medico Legal Society (President)
Bristol Law Society
Inquest Lawyers Group
Society of Clinical Injury Lawyers
Chambers Review
UK
Ali Cloak is a partner in the clinical negligence team at RWK Goodman. She has notable experience handling misdiagnosis cases and also regularly acts for clients in complex inquests.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She is intelligent and empathetic, yet robust and tactically shrewd when needed."
"She has got a good way of cutting through a detailed claim to see what is important, as well as the strengths and weaknesses."
"She is intelligent and empathetic, yet robust and tactically shrewd when needed."
"She has got a good way of cutting through a detailed claim to see what is important, as well as the strengths and weaknesses."
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