Exchange Chambers

Insolvency/LGSH/Property/Commercial/Construction/Insurance/Professional Negligence

Rachel is a specialist property and commercial/chancery barrister who also has experience in insolvency and private client. Rachel acts in all types of property disputes (residential and commercial). Rachel has appeared in the High Court in the Business and Property Courts, Companies Court, King’s Bench Division, Probate and Chancery Division in matters such as but not limited to contractual and tortious disputes, replacement of trustees, partnership and joint venture disputes, sale of goods and services, construction, personal and corporate insolvency, data protection, TOLATA 1996, Inheritance Act 1975 and Colonial Probates Act 1892.

She has built a strong experience in the County Court to multi track level. She also has experience in the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) and (Land Registration), and representing and advising parties in matters such as but not limited to leasehold and freehold disputes, business tenancy disputes, land (boundary, easements, common land, agricultural land, village greens, farm tenancies, adverse possession, highways/public rights of way, Japanese Knotweed, Tree Preservation Orders, Electronic Communications Code), nuisance, Housing Act 2004.

Clients that Rachel has worked with include private and commercial landlords, commercial and residential tenants/leaseholders, banks, U.K. solicitors’ firms with domestic and/or international clients, start-ups, private equity sponsors, local government departments and councils, property management companies, charities, high net worth individuals, beneficiaries, trustees and more vulnerable members of society.

Rachel’s  expertise is founded on her time at the Bar, pro bono work, webinar/seminar programmes and her work experience before coming to the Bar when she spent time working in hedging product mis-selling at Seneca Banking (part of Seneca Partners), volunteering in the procurement and commercial team at Stockport Homes, volunteering as a cleaner at a temporary accommodation for domestic violence victims at Stockport Homes, paralegal work at law firms such as DWF LLP (Manchester) and Horwich Farrelly, and on secondments at Hyde Housing and OneSource.

Property Bar Association Agricultural Law Association Chancery Bar Association ComBar ALBA South-Eastern Circuit Association of Women Barristers Her Bar St Thomas More Society

RICS Foundation Course in ADR and Conflict Avoidance  December 2022-March 2023

Vulnerable Witness Training  September 2018/2019

Direct Access Qualification  July 2017

Inner Temple Award (International Legal Ethics Conference)  July 2014

Mayor Award  May 2013

Manchester Metropolitan University  September 2012-June 2013 Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)

The College of William & Mary (WM) Williamsburg, VA (USA) (Draper Scholar) LLM American Legal Studies, GPA 4.2  August 2011-May 2012

The Drapers’ Company Scholarship funding an LLM in the USA  2011-2012

Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)  September 2008-June 2011 Law – First Class with Honours (LL.B) Hons

Queen Mary, University of London, Law School Bursary Winner  September 2008-June 2011

Aquinas College, Top Ten Theology A-Level  June 2008

Aquinas College Von Hugel Institute Funding for Leadership Conference  June 2008

Aquinas College (Sixth Form)  September 2006-June 2008

Harrytown Catholic High School  September 2001-June 2006

Rachel is involved in the reverse judicial mentoring scheme and provided advocacy training through ‘Bridging the Bar’. She regularly judges the George Hinde Moot at QMUL and has previously volunteered at QMUL Legal Advice Centre as a Legal Supervisor of Students in the pro bono clinic. Rachel has also been a pro bono researcher with Community Links, SEN assistant for and with undergraduate students, and volunteered at an orphanage in Bethlehem and at a kindergarten school in Mumbai.

In addition to writing books for Law Brief Publishing and articles for New Law Journal, LEASE, Flat Living and Local Government Lawyer, Rachel delivers webinars, seminars and podcasts for MBL Seminars, DG Legal, FOR Media Group, Kennedy Cater and A View from the Bar with Philip Ingram MBE.

Rachel is a NISA Level 8 qualified figure skater. She previously played football for Calthorpe Project FC. She enjoys skiing and mountain biking. She enjoys archaeology (reading and digging), playing her guitar, especially Jazz and Blues, singing (having also appeared in Songs of Praise) and oil painting (one piece featuring in various exhibitions for in 2007). She is also a mother to two active girls and a governor at her local primary school.