Sophie Ashford

Sophie is developing a broad practice across the span of Chambers’ core areas, with an emphasis on commercial disputes, professional negligence, property damage, insurance, inquests and inquiries, criminal regulatory and personal injury.

Prior to joining Chambers, Sophie was a judicial assistant to Dame Victoria Sharp, President of the King’s Bench Division in the Court of Appeal. She also trained as a commercial solicitor at a US commercial law firm in their London and Singapore offices, spending a year working in the international arbitration and civil litigation teams, six months on secondment in-house at Nestle and six months in the Financial Restructuring and Insolvency team.

BA in History – First Class, Jesus College, University of Cambridge GDL (Distinction), LPC (Distinction) and Bar Transfer Test, BPP University