Profile
Louise's principal interests and experience are as follows:
- Public law - Louise has considerable experience of a range of
public law work, including work with a national security element
(she holds DV clearance). She has spent considerable
time involved in complex disclosure exercises in Government
litigation, including the 'Guantanamo Bay litigation'. She
also has particular experence of prison law, immigration, the Legal
Services Act 2007, public inquiries and inquests.
- Employment - Louise appears regularly in the employment
tribunal acting for and advising both claimants and respondents in
a wide range of cases, including all varieties of discrimination
and dismissal claims.
- Personal injury - Louise acts for both claimants and defendants
in personal injury matters.
Louise has previous experience of crime and family law, and
although she no longer accepts instructions directly in these
areas, she is able to bring her former experience to bear in cases
where particularly public and employment law work requires a
knowledge of these areas of law.
Louise was appointed to the Attorney-General's Panel of Junior
Counsel to the Crown (C Panel) in March 2008.