Lucy accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ core areas of practice including public law and human rights, information and data protection law, public procurement, education and employment.
Before coming to the Bar, Lucy qualified as a solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and practised as an associate in the firm’s dispute resolution team, working across procurement, public, international trade and commercial disputes. Lucy also has experience in public service, having worked as a Legal Adviser within the UK’s Government Legal Department from 2021 to 2022, where she advised on the negotiation of a number of the UK’s international trade agreements.
From 2019 to 2020, Lucy was a Judicial Assistant assisting Lord Justice Singh in his capacity as a Lord Justice of Appeal and President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. In this role Lucy worked on a number of notable human rights cases including Begum v Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) [2020] EWCA Civ 918 (Shamima Begum appeal), R (Bridges) v Chief Constable of the South Wales Police [2020] EWCA Civ 1058 (addressing Article 8 and data protection), Plan B Earth and others v Secretary of State for Transport [2020] EWCA Civ 214 (the challenge to Heathrow’s third runway) and Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs IPT/17/86 & 87H (a challenge to the purported “authorisation” of criminal offences by officials and agents of the Security Service).
Lucy has a particular interest in public international law and has experience across international trade, investment arbitration and law of the sea.
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