Qualifications and experience
• University College London, LLB (Hons) Law with French Law (2002)
• University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Certificat supérieur en droit français (2001)
• 2-year sponsorship by the Lord Chancellor’s Department (now Ministry of Justice) onto the Windsor Fellowship Leadership Programme. Included developing and delivering communications strategy on implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 (1999-2001)
• Sakado Senior High School, Japan - English Language and Foreign Affairs Teacher (2002 – 2004)
• Embassy of Afghanistan, Tokyo, Public Affairs Chief Officer (2005)
• BPP Law School, Legal Practice Course (Distinction) (2006)
• Trained and qualified, Bates Wells & Braithwaite (2008)

Types of Work

Public and Regulatory Law
• Advising professional membership bodies in respect of complaints and disciplinary rules, processes and cases
• Judicial review
• Advice on confidentiality issues, including drafting and reviewing policies and recently representing a charity to successfully have set aside a police witness summons to produce highly sensitive and confidential information
• Advising on various child and vulnerable adult protection issues, including drafting and reviewing policies, Ofsted and local authority safeguarding investigations, and the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
• Assisting in local government standards investigations
• Education law

Charity and Social Enterprise
• Establishing new charities and social enterprises
• Charity incorporations, restructuring, mergers and joint ventures/collaborations
• Company and charity law advice to charities, social enterprises, and other not-for-profit organisations including grant-making and finance
• Advising trustees on regulatory and governance matters including Charity Commission investigations

Publications, articles and talks
• Contributing author of Jordans Charities Administration Manual
• Articles on the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act, including for the Directory of Social Change, Charity Finance magazine, and the Independent Theatre Council
• Various seminars and training on charity law, company law and safeguarding law, including for Jordans, DSC and Volunteering England

Pro Bono Activities
• Various pro-bono advice to charities and social enterprises including via LawWorks
• Tribunal representative for IPSEA (Independent Panel for Special Education Advice) - representing parents in the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal to challenge decisions of local authorities
• Windsor Fellowship mentor to students and graduates to help them realise their career goals
• Liberty letters clinic student volunteer, BPP Law School Human Rights Unit - advising on human rights and civil liberties issues

Memberships
• Charity Law Association
• Education Law Association
• Human Rights Lawyers Association