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Achas enjoys a varied practice in 12KBW’s core areas. She is keen to tackle research on complex points, including procedural ones and those involving a crossover between different spheres of law. She welcomes instructions in matters that cross the boundary between tort and public law. She is currently instructed in the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing and the Lampard Inquiry into mental health provision in Essex. She previously had a longstanding involvement in the Infected Blood Inquiry and the Kenya Emergency Group Litigation.

She acted as a junior in Coventry v Lawrence (No. 3) [2015] UKSC 50, the landmark Supreme Court case concerning whether the costs regime under the Access to Justice Act 1999 complied with human rights law.

She was also instructed in X v Kuoni Travel [2019] C-578/19, both in the Supreme Court and before the Court of Justice of the European Union, alongside William Audland KC and Nina Ross.

Achas is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University, where she teaches tort law and medical law.

‘A “right not to be offended” under Article 10(2)? – Concerns in the construction of the “rights of others.’’ [2012] European Human Rights Law Review 193. Cited by the High Court of Australia in Monis v the Queen [2013] HCA 4 ‘What does it mean to suffer loss?’ (2014) 77(6) Modern Law Review 994 ‘Beyond pragmatism: defending the “bright line” of birth’ (2014) 22(4) Medical Law Review 494 ‘Case comment: Reaney v Staffordshire NHS Trust – clinical negligence – causation’ (2014) 130 Personal Injury Law Journal 22 ‘Coventry v Lawrence: the unbearable burden of one’s wrongdoing’ (2015) 34(4) Civil Justice Quarterly 303 ‘Book review: Damages and Human Rights by Jason Varuhas’ (2018) 34(3) Journal of Professional Negligence 159 The positive duty of prevention in the common law and the Convention’ (2020) 40(2) Legal Studies 209 ‘Public trust(s)’, chapter in Barradas de Freitas and Io Laconi (eds) Trust Matters (Hart 2022) With Shreya Atrey, ‘Unleashing the anticipatory reasonable adjustment duty: University of Bristol v Abrahart (EHRC intervening) [2024] EWHC 299 (KB)’ (2024) International Journal of Discrimination Law, available online. Achas is the editor of 12KBW’s personal injury blog. 

PIBA (Personal Injuries Bar Association); TATLA (Travel and Tourism Lawyers Association).

University of Leeds, LLB (Hons) Law (first class) 2008-11; BPP Law School BPTC (Outstanding), 2011-12; University of Oxford, BCL (with distinction), 2012-13.