Practice Areas

Awards

2020: Pegasus Scholarship
2017: HHJ Paul Clark Scholarship, Middle Temple
2016: UCL Advances & Santander Summer Internship Award

‘Lucy is a fearless advocate. She is excellent at reading the room and pitching her cases appropriately to achieve the best outcome. She consistently goes above and beyond for clients.’
Legal 500, 2025

Lucy specialises in children law with a particular emphasis on public and international work.

Experience

Year of Call: 2018

Education

City Law School, GDL & BPTC
UCL, Russian Studies BA

Languages

Russian

Profile

Lucy specialises in cases concerning children. She acts in public, private and international matterscases as well as those with an international element. In public law, she represents parents, local authorities and guardians. She has experience in cases involving injury, sexual abuse, FII and neglect. Lucy also has public inquiry experience.

Before commencing pupillage, Lucy completed an internship with the Legal Action Group, during which time she assisted in editing publications including the Court of Protection Handbook.

Court of Protection

Lucy is instructed in matters before the COP and has particular experience as junior counsel representing the Health Service Executive of Ireland in recognition and enforcement proceedings relating to the placement of Ps lacking litigation and subject matter capacity in placements in England.

Inquests and Public Enquiries

Lucy was instructed as junior counsel representing Coram, a core participant in Module 5 of the Covid Inquiry.

International Children Law

Lucy appears in the High Court representing both applicants and respondents to cases brought under the Hague Convention and also has experience of cases involving child abduction to non-Hague countries.

Private Children Law

Lucy is regularly instructed in private law matters and has represented clients in cases in which there are allegations of domestic abuse and parental alienation. Lucy also has experience of cases with an international element, including applications to relocate abroad.

Lucy is particularly interested in the law relating to assisted reproductive technologies and the evolving environment of the law of surrogacy in this country and in other jurisdictions.

Public Children Law

Lucy has experience in dealing with the spectrum of complex issues that arise across public law proceedings. She acted as junior counsel in London Borough of Barnet v AG & Others [2021] EWHC 1253, which involved complex legal arguments in respect of a serving diplomat. She has also acted as junior counsel in FII and NAI cases.

Professional Memberships

FLBA, ALC

Directories

“Lucy is a fearless advocate. She is excellent at reading the room and pitching her cases appropriately to achieve the best outcome. She consistently goes above and beyond for clients.”
Legal 500, 2025

‘Lucy has a very analytical and forensic approach to cases and is always very well-prepared. She works very hard for her clients and can think carefully about how to ensure that they are fairly and properly represented.’
Top Tier
Legal 500, 2024