Doughty Street Chambers

Criminal Law and Appeals Business Crime and Investigations Extradition Data Protection and Information Law

Abigail specialises in special jurisdiction (terrorism, extradition, exceptionally high value fraud). She frequently advises doctors on how to engage with their professional regulators and appears before juries at inquests.  She is routinely instructed in several of chambers’ many practice areas.

She frequently advises doctors on how to engage with their professional regulators and appears before juries at inquests.

Called 2010; Middle Temple.

Editor-in-Chief, UCL Jurisprudence Review (2006-07); Honorary research assistant, UCL, Faculty of Laws (2006-07); Honorary research assistant, Law Faculty, University of Oxford (2008-09); Faculty teaching fellow, UCL, Faculty of Laws, Evidence and criminal law (2009-10). Current directorships: Guest lecturer (2013 to present) on the MSc in Clinical Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, convened by Dr Tim Exworthy and Professor Nigel Eastman; Executive committee member (2014 to present) of the Criminal Bar Association. Publications of note: Research interests are psychiatry, law and human rights, security and coercion in secure forensic services. Recent publications include: 'Dangerousness Revisited: Extended Sentences', Institute of Psychiatry teaching materials (2014); 'Psychiatric Issues in Sentencing', Institute of Psychiatry teaching materials (2014). Case digester for the Administrative Court Digest, 2007-10.

Extradition Lawyers Association; Fraud Lawyers Association; Criminal Bar Association; Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.

Newport Girls' High (State) School, Shropshire 5 A Levels (2000-02); UCL, Faculty of Laws, Law with Advanced Studies First Class (2002-06); Bachelor of Civil Laws (BCL) Masters, Balliol College, University of Oxford (2007-08), Distinction; Diploma in forensic medical sciences, Barts and the London School of Medicine (2010).

Highbury Fields running club, London Fields swimming club.