Mountford Chambers

Laura has developed an impressive criminal defence practice, and is regularly instructed in cases involving serious violence and sexual offences. She has excellent client care skills and always ensures that those she represents fully understand all stages of the proceedings and can feel confident that someone is fighting for them. Laura fiercely represents her clients’ interests and does not shy away from making ambitious and unique submissions when this is appropriate in the circumstances of a particular case.

Further to her criminal work, Laura accepts instructions in professional discipline and regulatory cases. She has a strong professional relationship with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and is regularly instructed as a case presenter in substantive Fitness to Practise Hearings.

Keen to engage in a variety of different cases, Laura often accepts instructions to assist in large scale document reviews. In 2020 she was instructed by Peters & Peters as part of the extensive document review exercise concerning the CCRC referrals of convictions of Sub-Postmasters relating to the Horizon IT system. In 2017 she was instructed by White & Case as part of a small team of barristers to assist with the defence of Richard User, a former foreign exchange trader prosecuted by the US Department of Justice for criminal cartel offences relating to a conspiracy to fix prices in the foreign exchange market. She was further instructed by White & Case in 2021 to assist with the U.S Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s investigations into alleged beaches of the civil side of the Sherman Act. In 2019 she was instructed by the National Crime Agency’s International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre as part of a document review exercise in relation to bribery and corruption in the Nigerian Oil industry.

Laura was appointed as one of the 49 junior Counsel to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry‘s Legal Team by The Inquiry Chair, Baroness Heather Hallett in June 2022.

Called: 2015

Inner Temple Bar Liaison Committee Member Former co-president of the Inner Temple Junior Bar Association

The London School of Economics and Political Science 2011 – 2014

BPP University Law School 2014 – 2015

Exhibition Award and Poland Prize (Inner Temple 2014 – 2015)