Essex Court Chambers

Claudia has a broad commercial practice with specialisms in media and entertainment law, arbitration and civil fraud. Claudia is recognized by the Legal 500 as a leading junior (Tier 1) for Art and Cultural Property Law which stated (2017) that “She has it all and will go a very long way”. Claudia frequently acts as sole counsel and has appeared unled in arbitrations, the High Court, County Courts and the Employment Tribunal and as junior counsel in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, numerous arbitrations (including under the LMAA Terms (2012), LCIA Arbitration Rules, American Arbitration Association Rules, ICC Rules and DIAC) and in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts. She is accustomed to working closely with foreign lawyers. She has been instructed in both advisory work and ongoing litigation.

She is qualified to appear before the DIFC Courts and is uniquely familiar with the jurisdiction, having spent several months there on secondment to the DIFC Courts and an international law firm during a 2014 Pegasus Trust Scholarship. She advised the newly established Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Courts on their Arbitration and Court Rules.

Claudia is the author of “Those Wild Wyndhams”, a biography of the Wyndham sisters (HarperCollins, 2014 (UK); Knopf, 2018 (US)), which won the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014 and was nominated for the Spears Book Awards 2014. She is also co-author of Heroes (Quercus 2007).

In her previous career as an actress she appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre, and on television in series for the BBC and ITV and was awarded an Ian Charleson Commendation 2007 (National Theatre/Sunday Times) (awards rewarding the best classical stage performances by actors under 30).

2011 – 2012 Pupillage at Essex Court Chambers 2011 Called to the Bar, Gray’s Inn 2003 – 2009 Professional actor and writer

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St Paul’s Girls’ School, London; Trinity College, Oxford University (MA (Hons) Modern History (First Class, ranked 4th in year)); GDL (Distinction); BPTC (Outstanding, ranked 8th in year); City University, London.