Paula Kelly | Inquests - 1 Crown Office Row, London

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Paula accepts instructions in all areas of coronial law. Her experience includes drafting submissions to Coroners on behalf of a clinician and assisting in an Article 2 jury inquest into a death in prison. She also represented a bereaved family in a successful judicial review challenge to a Coroner’s decision not to open an inquest into the death of a young person (led by Richard Booth KC).

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Appointments

Attorney General’s ‘Junior Junior’ Panel
Board Member, The John and Pat Hume Foundation

Awards

Sir John and Lady Sophie Laws Scholarship (Bar European Group)
Dean’s Scholar Prize in Public International Law (Harvard Law School)
Kennedy Scholar (Kennedy Memorial Trust)
Opinion Writing Award for best performance in module (ICCA)
Winner of the Michael Corkery QC Criminal Law Moot 2021
Lord Justice Holker Scholarship (Gray’s Inn)
Residential Scholarship (Gray’s Inn)
Henderson Prize for best GDL coursework (City Law School)
William Charnley Scholarship (Gray’s Inn)
Academic Excellence Scholarship (City Law School)
Richard Titmuss Prize for graduating first in year (London School of Economics)
Clare College Prize for performance in Tripos

Education

LL.M., Harvard Law School (Kennedy Scholar)
PGDip in Bar Practice, Inns of Court College of Advocacy (Third in year)
GDL, City Law School
MSc Social Policy, London School of Economics (First in year)
BA (Hons) English, University of Cambridge

Memberships

Administrative Law Bar Association
Personal Injury Bar Association
Association of Child Abuse Lawyers

Publications

‘Attorney General’s refusal of a fiat to seek a fresh inquest is non-justiciable’ – UK Human Rights Blog

‘Paterson v UK: Parliament and Human Rights in Strasbourg’ – UK Human Rights Blog

‘Either not Neither: further consideration of non-binary identity by the High Court’ – UK Human Rights Blog

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