Crown Office Chambers

Katie specialises in criminal regulatory law, inquests and inquires.

She has been instructed as junior counsel for one of the public authority Core Participants in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry for the past four years and is particularly well placed to advise in fire safety related cases.

Alongside the Inquiry, Katie has recently represented a Company Director who pleaded guilty to a section 37 offence, helping him to avoid a custodial sentence in circumstances where 26 weeks custody was the starting point under the Guidelines. She has also continued to develop her practice representing corporate defendants in both the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts, as well as in the Coroner’s Court. She is currently instructed in a prosecution relating to an external wall cladding system under the Housing Act 2004 and in respect of the Corporate Manslaughter prosecution of Greenfeeds Ltd, led by Mark Balysz.

Katie’s experience crosses a broad range of industries including: housing, manufacturing, recycling, construction, retail and agriculture. She also has experience in relation to road traffic related prosecutions.

Katie retains a complimentary civil law practice, specialising in personal injury (employers’ and public liability) and property damage (escape of water and fire). In her civil practice, she has experience drafting pleadings and advices for cases across all three civil “tracks” and both as a trial advocate and at interim hearings, including CCMCs.

Call 2014; Lincoln's Inn

HSLA, PNBA, PIBA

BPTC (Outstanding); Bachelor of Civil Law; BA Jurisprudence (Hons) Oxon, First Class; Hardwicke Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn; Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn; Buchanan Prize, Lincoln’s Inn; Sir Roger Bannister Scholarship, Pembroke College, Oxford; Pembroke College Exhibitioner.