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Called 2011

Elaine Freer joined chambers on October 3rd 2016, following the successful completion of her pupillage.

During pupillage she defended in a range of criminal matters, and away from court, she worked on disclosure in Operation Hornet, a large-scale fraud tried in autumn 2016. She is a member of the CPS Advocates Panel at Grade One and a member of the Government Legal Department's 'Junior Junior' scheme.

Prior to pupillage Elaine completed a PhD at Keele University on an ACORN scholarship in September 2015. This was jointly funded by The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and Keele University, examining the extent to which a professional organisation such as an Inn of Court could influence its profession’s demographic. The research focussed on the provision by Inner Temple of the Pegasus Access and Support Scheme, a scheme aiming to increase socio-economic diversity amongst new entrants to the profession through the provision of work experience in the form of mini-pupillages. Elaine combined this with being a College Teaching Associate at Robinson College, Cambridge where she supervised undergraduates in Criminal Law and Criminology, Sentencing and the Penal System. She continues to be on the defence advocate panel for students accused of disciplinary offences at Cambridge and is particularly interested in the crossover between disciplinary and criminal proceedings in these matters.

2016: PhD (Keele)

2012: MPhil Criminology (Cantab)

2011: BPTC (Kaplan Law School)

2010: BA (Hons) Law (Cantab)

Scholarship:

Hardwicke Entrance Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)

Lord Denning Scholarship 2010/2011 (Lincoln’s Inn)

Cloth Fair Scholarship 2011 (Kalisher Trust)

Levitt Pupillage Scholarship 2015 (Lincoln’s Inn)