Flora Jago

Flora is an associate in Hempsons’ Advisory team. She joined the firm in October 2022, having previously been the deputy trust solicitor at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.

Flora has considerable experience in advising clients on complex clinical issues, particularly those involving consent and capacity. She has conducted numerous serious medical treatment cases in the Family Division of the High Court and the Court of Protection. Her experience includes applications regarding the provision of experimental treatment to a child, withdrawal of life sustaining treatment, and multiple cases involving obstetric care for detained women. Flora’s recent reported cases include Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust v A Local Authority & Ors [2022] EWHC 2596 and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v HER & Anor [2024] EWCOP 25.

Flora has significant experience of general advisory queries and liaising directly with a broad range of healthcare professionals, including senior executives and board members. Flora’s clients include acute and mental health NHS Trusts, ICBs and private providers. She is especially interested in clinical decision-making related to children. Flora is also a qualified solicitor-advocate, having obtained her civil higher rights in 2021, and frequently appears as an advocate in the Court of Protection.

Flora has particular expertise in the intersection of medical law and ethics. In 2024-2025, she took a period of study leave to complete a Master’s in Bioethics at Harvard University, where her research focused on issues of mental capacity and end of life care for patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa. Flora is also member of the Great Ormond Street Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee and the author of a chapter on consent and capacity for a forthcoming bioethics textbook. 

Main areas of expertise

• mental capacity (including Court of Protection)
• Children Act
• mental health
• social care

Clients she works with

• NHS acute, mental health and foundation trusts
• NHS commissioning bodies

Qualifications

• MSc Bioethics, Harvard University (2025)
• Higher Rights (Civil) University of Law (2021)
• LPC, University of Law (2018)
• BA Law (Jurisprudence), University of Oxford (2017)

More about Flora

Outside of work, Flora volunteers as an advisor for a student-run charity based in Oxford which provides free summer holidays for underprivileged children. She also enjoys baking, hiking and singing as part of her local women’s choir.