Katherine’s practice covers all of chambers’ core areas, with a particular interest in employment, business protection, data protection and public law.
Katherine is ranked as a “Rising Star” in employment law by Legal 500. She is described as “emerging as a real star of the junior employment bar” who is “highly sought after in both High Court and tribunal litigation” and has “judgment well beyond her years”.
Some of Katherine’s recent cases include:
- Representing Index on Censorship (led by Aileen McColgan KC) in its intervention in support of the appeal before the EAT in Forstater v CGD Europe & others[2021] IRLR 706, concerning the protection of gender critical beliefs under the Equality Act.
- Acting for HMRC (led by Julian Milford KC and Rupert Paines) in Jennifer Webster v HMRC, high-profile data protection proceedings in the Media and Communications List brought by a former US citizen challenging the transfer of financial account information to the US Internal Revenue Service pursuant to treaties between the UK and US governments.
- Appearing in the Supreme Court (led by Andrew Sharland KC) in TW Logistics v Essex County Council [2021] UKSC 4, concerning the registration of part of a commercial port as a Town and Village Green.
- Representing Charlie Hughes in his JR challenge for medicinal cannabis on the NHS for the treatment of epilepsy (led by Tom Cross).