
Ali Cloak
Partner
Amputation | Birth Injury | Injury | Inquests and Fatal Claims | Medical negligence
About Ali
Ali is a Partner in our medical negligence team and has a proven track record in acting in claims for medical negligence. She holds Senior Litigator status, accorded by APIL, acknowledging her significant expertise in the specialism.
Ali has expertise in a wide range of medical negligence claims but has a particular interest in the following areas:
- inquests and coronial law, including medical inquests, as well as deaths in prison, police custody and mental health detention
- fatal claims
- birth injuries, including Erb’s palsy and cerebral palsy
- maternal injuries
- psychiatric injury, including secondary victim claims
- orthopaedic injuries including knee replacement surgeries, hip dysplasia, amputations and podiatric negligence.
In 2014, Ali won the Bath Solicitor of the Year at the prestigious Bristol Law Society Awards. The award recognised her as “an exceptional solicitor who has made an outstanding contribution to their firm, client work or the legal sector in Bath”.
In the legal directory Chambers & Partners, Ali is noted as “a rising star who is highly intelligent and handles an impressive caseload with aplomb.”
She has previously worked with local and national media, commenting on topical issues and cases in which she was involved.
Memberships
- Bristol Law Society
- INQUEST charity
- Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) - Senior Litigator


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"Ali has been very tenacious, resourceful and persistent in pursuing my case. Her knowledge and experience resulted in a final award which exceeded our expectations. Ali’s total professionalism and caring sensitivity has always given me confidence and reassurance throughout a very stressful and challenging time in my life. I have already recommended Ali and RWK Goodman to my friends and family. Your service has been quite exceptional."
Ali's outstanding commitment gave us the hope that we needed in order to gain closure by the Trust Being held accountable for what we had to endure. She continually kept us informed every step of the way and if we needed to contact her at any point or needed clarification on any legalities she was able to get back to us as soon as possible. Ali was very approachable in her character and put us at ease throughout. Especially considering the nature of the case. Most of all we would like to thank you for believing in us and we would definitely recommend RWK Goodman and yourself to others.
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