Francis Taylor Building

Her main areas of interest include:

Planning Environment Infrastructure Local Government (including rating and housing law) Compulsory Purchase and Compensation Licensing Education EU law

Caroline was called to the Bar in 2013 and is currently the third highest rated planning barrister under 35 (Planning Magazine’s Planning Law Survey, 2022). She is ranked in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500.

Caroline has a broad practice within Chambers’ core areas with a particular focus on planning and compulsory purchase and compensation matters. She acts for and advises central and local government, landowners, developers, private individuals, utilities companies and community interest groups. Notable clients include Countryside Properties, the City of London Corporation, CPRE and the London Borough of Southwark.

Caroline has appeared in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Upper Tribunal, magistrates’ courts, the Crown Court and in planning inquiries, including in enforcement and CPO inquiries.

Caroline is a member of the Attorney General's C Panel.

Qualifications

BPTC, Kaplan Law School (2012-2013) LLM, University College London (2011-2012) BA(Hons), Law with Legal Studies in Europe (Spanish), Pembroke College, University of Oxford (2007-2011)

As part of her undergraduate degree, Caroline participated in the European Erasmus Programme, spending a year studying European, Spanish and Catalan law at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Scholarships

Phoenicia Scholarship, Bar European Group (2015) Princess Royal Scholarship, Inner Temple (2012-2013) Arts and Humanities Research Council full Scholarship for LLM at University College London (2011-2012)

Prizes

Winner, UKELA Lord Slynn of Hadley Senior Moot (2015) Martin Wronker Prize for 1st place in Administrative Law finals paper, University of Oxford (2011) Littleton Chambers Prize for 1st place in Labour Law finals paper, University of Oxford (2011) Exhibitioner, Pembroke College, University of Oxford (2008-2011) Lovells Law Prize for High Achievement, Pembroke College, University of Oxford (2008-2009)

Prior to coming to the Bar, Caroline worked as a research assistant and teaching fellow in public law at University College London.

Caroline also spent a year providing legal assistance to the Dame Janet Smith Review, a private review established by the BBC to investigate issues connected with the Jimmy Savile scandal and the culture and practices of the BBC during the period that he worked there.

Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA) Bar European Group (BEG) Compulsory Purchase Association (CPA) National Infrastructure Planning Association (NIPA) Planning and Environmental Bar Association (PEBA) UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)

Caroline was born and brought up in Glasgow. She spends most of her holidays in Scotland, where she enjoys walking in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs and climbing the odd Munro.

Caroline's other main interests are modern languages, art and architecture. She is an avid reader, mainly of modern and contemporary fiction.

Caroline is a school governor at Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form College and regularly sits on disciplinary and exclusion panels on behalf of both the school and the London Borough of Hackney.