Paula joined Chambers in October 2024 and is developing a broad practice in all areas of Chambers’ expertise. She has appeared in the Supreme Court and unled in the High Court, Coroner’s Court, County Court and Magistrates’ Court.

Prior to joining Chambers, Paula was a Judicial Assistant in the King’s Bench Division assisting High Court judges. She attended the hearings and assisted with research and drafting in cases including:

She was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard Law School. Alongside her academic studies, she volunteered as a student attorney and represented defendants accused of criminal misdemeanors and an individual serving a sentence for second-degree murder in his parole proceedings.

Before being called to the Bar, Paula spent several years as a Parliamentary Adviser in the Northern Ireland Assembly and House of Commons, including to the Official Opposition’s shadow ministerial team for Exiting the European Union.

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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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