EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Lucy has been supervised by Clare Hennessy, Michael Mylonas KC and Oliver Williamson, and will move to the supervision of James Berry KC in June 2026. She has gained experience in all areas of Chambers’ work including clinical negligence, court of protection, inquests and inquiries, police law and public law. During pupillage, Lucy has also attended with John De Bono KC in a clinical negligence trial on liability, and Claire Watson KC in a court of protection case concerning a declaration of death, and the Nottingham Inquiry.
Prior to pupillage, Lucy worked as a para-swimming coach for six years, primarily coaching swimmers with cerebral palsy and learning disabilities. She has also undertaken pro bono work for the Free Representation Unit, where she successfully represented a Claimant in a two-day unfair dismissal hearing.
During her undergraduate degree, Lucy founded the Cambridge University Medical Law Society. She later completed her postgraduate degree in Medical Law at King’s College London, where her dissertation on adolescent mental health and capacity law was awarded the highest mark in the cohort.
QUALIFICATIONS
- BA (Hons) Law, University of Cambridge – First Class
- MA in Medical Law, King’s College London – Distinction (top of the year)
- Bar Practice Course, The Inns of Court College of Advocacy – Distinction (top of the year)
PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS & ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
- Chair’s Award for Best Overall Performance on the Bar Course (2025)
- Lincoln House Chambers Advocacy Prize for top performing student in examination-in-chief and cross-examination (2025)
- No.5 Chambers Professional Ethics Prize (2025)
- Dickson Poon School of Law Prize for the best Medical Law Dissertation (2024)
- Dickson Poon School of Law Prize for highest mark in the Medical Law MA Course (2024)
- Inner Temple Exhibition Scholarship and Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award (2024)
- Junior Law Scholar, St Catharine’s College Cambridge (2022)
- Rebecca Flower Squire Scholar, Cambridge Law Faculty (2021-2022)
- Kemp-Gooderson Undergraduate Prize for Law, St Catharine’s College Cambridge (2021)
- Sir John Baker’s Mooting Prize (2021)
- Mrs Payne (1610) Scholar, St Catharine’s College Cambridge (2021)
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further details of Lucy’s practice please contact a member of the clerking or client service team.