Monckton Chambers

Imogen is a public law specialist. She is regularly instructed in the most high-profile judicial reviews and in cases of national significance.

Imogen’s wide-ranging public law practice includes the following areas:

• Commercial judicial review
• Human rights and civil liberties
• Education law
• Community care
• Local government
• Age disputes
• Regulatory law

Imogen’s public law practice encompasses a number of Monckton’s specialist areas including procurement, EU law/EU relations law, telecommunications and commercial and utilities regulation.

Imogen was appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel when 3 years into tenancy. She entered the legal directories in her fourth year of tenancy.

Now 6 years’ call, Imogen has 13 reported cases, 4 of which are categorised by Westlaw UK as ‘significant’ judgments. She has appeared in the Court of Appeal four times and in 2022 appeared for the first time in the Supreme Court for the successful Secretary of State in R (VIP) v SSHD, a national security case.

Imogen was shortlisted for an award in the Women in Law Awards 2020 in the category “Rising star – barrister/advocate of the year”.

Called 2015.

Before coming to the Bar, Imogen read Philosophy at Cambridge, graduating with a double first and coming third across the university in both parts I and II of Tripos.

She had a first career as a state school classroom teacher in Hackney; a challenging environment in which success demanded clear and persuasive communication, and grit. This also gave Imogen first-hand experience of working in the public sector which she puts to use in her public law practice. Imogen then went to City Law School, where she was awarded a Distinction in the GDL and Outstanding in the BPTC. Imogen is a Wadoryu karate black belt.

BA (Cambridge) Double First Class Honours; PGCE (Cambridge); GDL (City Law School) Distinction; BPTC (City Law School) Outstanding

Imogen is a Wadoryu karate black belt.