Inquests

Paula has gained knowledge and experience of coronial law, including drafting submissions to Coroners on behalf of a clinician and assisting in an Article 2 jury inquest into a death in prison. She represented a bereaved family in a successful 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 Bar European Group Scholarship
  • 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 
  • PGDip in Bar Practice, Inns of Court College of Advocacy 
  • GDL, City Law School 
  • MSc Social Policy, London School of Economics 
  • BA English, University of Cambridge 

Memberships

  • ALBA
  • PIBA

Publications

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

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