Laura is an experienced trial advocate. Within her specialist areas of practice she has appeared in the High Court (including the Technology and Construction Court), the County Court, the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal and the Rent Assessment Committee (property); the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the High Court (employment); and the High Court and the County Court (personal injury).

Laura has appellate advocacy experience including the Privy Council and the Court of Appeal, where she has conducted permission hearings and substantive appeals. She has also been led in the Privy Council and in the Court of Appeal.

Laura regularly represents clients at settlement meetings and mediations.

Property/Landlord and Tenant

Experience across a wide range of commercial and residential property and landlord and tenant work including the following:

• business tenancies including renewals and forfeitures
• construction of leases
• easements, covenants, rights of way and boundary disputes
• mortgages
• constructive trusts
• Party Wall Act disputes (including urgent injunction applications where necessary)
• agricultural tenancies
• adverse possession
• disrepair (sometimes including related personal injury claims)
• residential tenancies, including nuisance related injunctions and evictions
• rent and housing benefit issues
• leasehold enfranchisement and lease extensions
• service charge disputes

Laura edits chambers’ property law newsletter.

Employment

Extensive experience in the Employment Tribunal and experience in the Employment Appeal Tribunal, representing both employers and employees in a wide range of employment disputes including:

• unfair and constructive dismissal cases
• sex, race and disability discrimination claims
• wage disputes including holiday pay
• other contractual disputes
• equal pay claims
• restrictive covenants

Laura has a particular expertise in the overlap between employment and personal injury claims, for example in relation to accidents at work, disability discrimination, harassment and stress at work claims. She has conducted a number of cases involving both areas of law. She was instructed in one of the first associative disability discrimination ET claims following Coleman v Attridge.

Personal Injury

Claimant work, including:

• catastrophic brain injury claims
• cases involving substantial future loss of earnings based on the new Ogden 6 tables A to D
• chronic pain cases
• accidents at work, in particular claims where there is an employment law overlap (see above)
• road traffic accidents
• fatal accidents

Laura is regularly instructed in six-figure personal injury claims as sole counsel, and is also instructed as junior counsel in more substantial claims. In addition to trial experience she frequently conducts case management conferences, interim applications and settlement meetings in personal injury claims.