QEB Hollis Whiteman

Eloise’s practice, both public and privately instructed, encompasses the full range of criminal offences and continues to grow steadily. She has successfully defended clients in Magistrates and Crown Courts across London, and further afield, in matters including; drug possession with intent to supply; dangerous driving; racially aggravated public order offences; domestic burglaries, and benefit fraud involving tens of thousands of pounds. Eloise is also increasingly being instructed in private prosecutions in cases brought by both government bodies and individuals, and is regularly instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service as a Grade 1 Prosecutor. In her first six, Eloise assisted her pupil supervisor, Julian Evans, Junior Treasury Counsel, in relation to a series of trials, including: an attempted murder trial involving a large haul of firearms; a multi-handed murder trial involving complex cell site and CCTV evidence (with Crispin Aylett QC), and a gang related murder in central London (with Mark Heywood QC). In her second six, Eloise guided by pupil master Paul Wakerley assisted him with a number of cases including the successful acquittal of an undercover police officer in relation to a road traffic matter; a General Medical Council disciplinary matter, and a multi-handed cuckoo smurfing fraud, involving cash sums in excess of £10m. This year, Eloise has been instructed in a number of sensitive and complex cases with regards to fitness to plead and insanity, where the Defendant’s mental health or significant learning disability has required the evidence of multiple medical expert witnesses. Eloise is also assisting the public and regulatory law team at Field Fisher LLP with Lord Justice Goldring’s Hillsborough inquests.

Called 2012, Middle Temple. Clerk to the designated Family Judge for London at the Principal Registry of the Family Division, His Honour Judge Altman, and Secretary of the London Family Justice Council. In early 2013 Eloise travelled to Houston, Texas on behalf of the charity Amicus ALJ to provide assistance to those facing the death penalty in the United States.

BA (Hons) English Literature; LLB (Hons) Law; Jules Thorn Major Scholarship, Middle Temple; Blackstone Entrance Exhibition Scholarship, Middle Temple.

Eloise drives a vespa.