Natalie is quickly developing a strong competition law practice. She has been instructed as junior counsel in two collective action proceeding trials to date and regularly appears unled in the CAT on case management issues.

Cases

Current and recent highlights include:

• Justin Le Patourel v BT: successfully acted for BT in a collective proceedings claim brought on behalf of consumers of residential landline services (with Daniel Beard KC, Sarah Love and Daisy Mackersie). See the Tribunal’s judgment here.
• Mark McLaren v MOL (Europe Africa) Ltd and others: acted for the MOL Defendants in a 9-week collective proceedings trial in early 2025 concerning the maritime car carriers cartel (with David Bailey and Michael Quayle).
• Trucks (Wave 2): acting for one of the retail supermarket claimants in the Second Wave of the Trucks litigation (led by Alan Maclean KC).
• Ad Tech Collective Action LLP v Alphabet Inc. & Others: acting for Google in a collective proceedings claim brought on behalf of UK publishers in relation to Google’s ad tech products (with Meredith Pickford KC, Conall Patton KC, Max Schaefer and Natasha Simonsen).
• Justin Gutmann v Apple: acting for the Class Representative in abuse of dominance collective proceedings against Apple on behalf of millions of iPhone users (with Philip Moser KC, Anneli Howard KC, Stefan Kuppen and Will Perry).
• Acting for a public authority against several pharmaceutical companies in follow-on proceedings.
• Advising in relation to several prospective competition law actions (as junior counsel).

Natalie accepts instructions in all areas of public law and human rights. Natalie has considerable experience in refugee and immigration law. Prior to coming to the Bar, she worked as a public law caseworker at Duncan Lewis Solicitors and as a volunteer caseworker at the AIRE Centre. She also completed an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford and acted as a Research Assistant to Professor Cathryn Costello and Paul Dillane on various migration-related projects.

Current and recent highlights include:

• Advising a claimant in relation to an A2P1 ECHR damages claim for alleged failures by the local authority to conduct an EHC needs assessment.
• Acting for a claimant in relation to his application under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP).
• Written intervention to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on behalf of the Global Strategic Litigation Council and Foundation Cristosal, regarding the existence and scope of a “right to care”.

Cases

During pupillage, Natalie assisted on a wide range of matters concerning public law and human rights, including:

• A judicial review challenge to a local authority’s assessment of an asylum seeker’s age.
• An A2P1 ECHR damages claim in relation to a failure by a local authority to conduct an EHC needs assessment.
• An interim relief hearing in the context of an age-assessment judicial review challenge.
• Defending judicial review challenge to the decision-making of the Traffic Penalty Tribunal concerning the scope of its jurisdiction and related public law issues.
• An Article 8 ECHR damages claim brought against an NHS Trust regarding the treatment of a deceased person’s body.
• Advising on the merits of a damages claim under the Equality Act and Article 14 ECHR.
• Advising on employment rights issues in a public law context.
• Advising on the scope of Citizens’ Rights under the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement.
• Advising on the interpretation of the Windsor Framework and the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement in relation to customs, duties and taxes.

Cases

During pupillage, Natalie assisted on various data protection and information matters, including:

• R (the3million and Open Rights Group) v SSHD and SSDCMS: a challenge to the lawfulness of the immigration exemption contained in the Data Protection Act 2018, which provides for an exemption from the majority of fundamental data protection rights conferred by the UK GDPR where compliance with those rights is said to prejudice ‘effective immigration control’.

Cases

During pupillage, Natalie assisted on various data protection and information matters, including:

• James Waste Management LLP v Essex County Council [2023] EWHC 1157 (TCC): concerning whether an in-term modification to the defendant Council’s Integrated Waste Handling Contract was permissible under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
• Advising the Secretary of State on the lawfulness of proposed modifications to a public contract.

Natalie has a keen interest in all areas of sports law.

Cases

Current and recent highlights include:

• Acted as junior counsel for a club in arbitration proceedings under the Premier League Rules.
• EFL v Reading FC and Mr Yongge Dai: acted for the EFL in a case concerning breaches of the EFL Regulations for non-payment of wages to the Club’s players (with Michael Armitage). See the written reasons of the Disciplinary Commission here.

During pupillage, Natalie assisted on various sports matters including an FA penalty dispute and a prospective claim concerning misconduct under the EFL Regulations.

Natalie accepts instructions in all areas of commercial and tax law. She regularly appears as sole counsel in the County Court in commercial law matters.

Cases

During pupillage, Natalie assisted in a range of commercial and tax matters, including:

• R (British Gas and others) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: assisting with a commercial judicial review challenge against the government’s decision to provide state subsidy for the sale of Bulb to Octopus.
• Advising on the merits of a challenge to HMRC’s decision that a company’s product should be standard-rated for VAT purposes.
• Advising in relation to potential VAT fraud.

Education

• Bar Vocational Studies Course, City Law School (Distinction) (2020-2021)
• Graduate Diploma in Law, City Law School (Distinction) (2019-2020)
• MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, University of Oxford (Distinction) (2018-2019)
• BA Ancient and Modern History, University of Oxford (First Class; Top in Year in Preliminary Examinations) (2015-2018)

Scholarship, Awards & Prizes

• Arden Scholarship, Gray’s Inn (2023)
• Bar European Group Scholarship (2023)
• Nicholls Prize for Advocacy, Gray’s Inn (2021)
• Monique Viner Scholarship, Gray’s Inn (2020)
• BVS City Law School Scholarship for Academic Excellence (2020)
• David Karmel Scholarship, Gray’s Inn (2019)
• GDL City Law School Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence (2019)
• W.M. Edwards Prize, Merton College, University of Oxford (2018)
• Postmaster Scholarship (2017); Exhibitioner Scholarship (2016); Fowler Prizes (various) – Merton College, University of Oxford