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MA (Cantab) Double First Class;
GDL (City Law School) Distinction; BPTC (City Law School) Outstanding
MA (Cantab) Double First Class;
GDL (City Law School) Distinction; BPTC (City Law School) Outstanding
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“Imogen is a brilliant barrister. She has a first-class mind, is very hard-working, is greatly responsive, and is user friendly. She is also particularly good at dealing with clients” – Legal 500, 2022
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:
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. Imogen is ranked as a Rising Star by Legal 500 in (1) Administrative Law and Human Rights (2) Education Law (3) Community Care. She is ranked as Up and Coming in Administrative and Public law by Chambers and Partners.
Now 8 years’ call, Imogen has 15 reported cases and 5 Westlaw UK ‘significant’ judgments. She has appeared in the Court of Appeal four times, and in 2022 Imogen appeared in the Supreme Court for the successful appellant Secretary of State in R (VIP) v SSHD.
Imogen was shortlisted for an award in the Women in Law Awards 2020 in the category “Rising star – barrister/advocate of the year”.
Imogen is Public Access Qualified and regularly acts for individuals in receipt of legal aid.
Imogen was awarded double first class honours in Philosophy at Cambridge, ranking third across the university in both part I and part 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.
Imogen is ranked by Legal 500 for Administrative and Public Law as a ‘rising star’ and by Chambers and Partners as ‘Up and Coming’ in Administrative and Public Law.
She has been on the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel since 2019.
Imogen’s administrative and public law practice involves a mixture of led work, including highly complex judicial reviews, and work as sole counsel. Her clients include children in care, asylum seekers, charities and NGOs, schools and universities, companies, public bodies, regulators and Secretaries of State.
Imogen has acted for the claimant in judicial review challenges to:
Imogen is regularly instructed by claimants in JRs of local authority decisions that an unaccompanied child asylum seeker is an adult.
Imogen has acted for the defendant in judicial reviews concerning:
In 2022, Imogen was part of the team which succeeded in the Supreme Court for the Home Secretary, defending a national security-related decision in R(VIP) v SSHD.
Public law cases of Imogen’s to reach the Court of Appeal include:
Imogen is one of LexisNexis’ contributing authors for its LexisPSL service. She has co-authored practice notes on the ‘Prevent Duty’ on public bodies in relation to terrorism (see article here); the status of Strasbourg case law; human rights and statutory construction; judicial deference and the margin of appreciation; civil contingencies and emergency powers; dealing with human rights challenges; and terrorism law.
Imogen has sat on the committee of the Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA), the Young Public Lawyers Group (YPLG), and the Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA).
A number of Imogen’s public law clients choose to instruct her on a direct access basis. Many of her clients are in receipt of legal aid.
Imogen advises and represents both businesses and government departments, agencies and regulators.
Imogen is regularly instructed in complex challenges in technically difficult areas, where there are often political sensitivities or commercial intricacies.
Imogen has acted in JRs concerning:
Within her public law practice, Imogen is an Education Law specialist.
Imogen is ranked by Legal 500 as a Rising Star in the field of Education law.
This is an area of particular interest for Imogen due to her previous career as a teacher. Coming from a family of teachers, Imogen returned to Cambridge University after graduating for postgraduate teacher training (PGCE) and then taught for four years in state schools in North London. During that time, Imogen worked with many children who had what are now called Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). This previous career gives Imogen rare, first-hand experience of the issues at stake in judicial review challenges and statutory appeals in the education law field.
Imogen advises and represents:
Imogen accepts instructions across the full range of education law issues, for example:
Imogen brings to her education practice her wider expertise across Monckton’s practice areas, including advising schools on procurement issues.
Imogen was a founding member of Monckton’s Education Law practice group.
Imogen acts in cases defending the human rights of individuals, as well as acting for corporations seeking to protect their commercial interests through human rights proceedings.
Imogen’s recent cases include:
Imogen has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA), the Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA) and the Young Public Lawyers Group (YPLG).
Imogen previously ran the year 12 programme of a project called ‘Your Law’, organising and delivering workshops on the Human Rights Act 1998 in state secondary schools in London.
Imogen is ranked as a Rising Star in Community Care by the Legal 500. Her referee commented: “Imogen is excellent, sensitive to vulnerable clients, amiable, helpful and has a quick grasp of the brief.’’
She acts for both children and adults. Many of her community care clients are in receipt of legal aid.
She has acted for:
Imogen accepts instructions, both as sole counsel and as junior counsel in larger teams, in challenges to local government decision-making. This includes advice and representation in relation to social housing and community care issues. Imogen regularly acts for children, as well as in adult social care challenges.
She has been involved in a number of judicial review challenges to the housing allocation policies of London borough councils.
Imogen regularly acts for unaccompanied child asylum seekers in their judicial review challenges to local authorities’ “age assessments” which have found them to be over 18 years old.
Through her work with Advocate (a charity which links barristers with those needing free legal help), Imogen has provided pro bono assistance to a charity which works with children in care.
Imogen regularly acts on both claimant and defendant sides in major procurement litigation.
She acted for the Department for Transport in Eurotunnel’s procurement challenge to the award of Brexit ferry contracts.
During the pandemic, Imogen was instructed by the Department for Health and Social Care in its successful defence of a number of high-profile judicial review challenges brought by the Good Law Project concerning procurement of PPE.
Imogen also provides non-contentious advice in this field. Her recent clients have included schools seeking advice in relation to redevelopment projects.
Imogen is a member of the Procurement Lawyers’ Association.
Imogen has been awarded a range of scholarships including:
Imogen has received a number of awards including:
From 2016 to 2018 Imogen was a trustee of ‘Pro Bono Community’, a charity which seeks to improve access to justice by providing specialist training to volunteers in Law Centers and advice agencies.
Imogen represented Inner Temple in debate.
Imogen is also a member of the panel of counsel of Advocate, a charity which sources free legal help for those otherwise facing legal problems alone.
Leading Junior in Administrative & Public Law: “She really gets to know the facts of the case; she makes sure everything is meticulously prepared and her advocacy is very clear.” “Imogen works brilliantly in the team and with clients. She is a standout to me.” – Chambers UK, 2024
Leading Junior in Administrative Law and Human Rights: “Imogen’s attention to detail is a true credit to her. She impresses everyone in the courtroom, and is a fierce advocate, communicating her points clearly with ease.” – Legal 500, 2024
Leading Junior in Education: “Imogen knows education law in enormous detail. She is very diligent and hard-working, and her written output is always first-rate.” – Legal 500, 2024
Leading Junior in Court of Protection and Community Care: “Imogen is a supremely capable advocate. She has a detail-orientated approach, analytically breaking down the legal points and facts of the case to advise on the strengths and weaknesses of the case. She is a fierce advocate, communicating her points clearly, and can identify weaknesses in oral arguments with pinpoint accuracy.” – Legal 500, 2024
Up and Coming in Administrative & Public Law: “She is laser-focused in her attention to detail.” “She is brilliant – she provides excellent drafting on really complicated issues.” – Chambers UK, 2023
Rising Star in Administrative Law and Human Rights: “Imogen is exceptionally dedicated and hardworking, always calm and pleasant to work with, and her written advocacy is first rate.” – Legal 500, 2023
Rising Star in Education: “Imogen is very clear, committed and focused on the task at hand.” – Legal 500, 2023
Rising Star in Court of Protection and Community Care: “Imogen is excellent, sensitive to vulnerable clients, amiable, helpful and has a quick grasp of the brief.” – Legal 500, 2023
Up and Coming in Administrative & Public Law: “I’ve seen her led and unled and she is a fantastic junior barrister.” “Her advice is clear and practical. She’s also very good with lay clients.” – Chambers UK, 2022
Rising Star in Administrative and Public: “Imogen is a brilliant barrister.” – Legal 500, 2022
Rising Star in Administrative and Public: “She has a first-class mind, is very hard-working, is greatly responsive and is user friendly. She is also particularly good at dealing with clients.” – Legal 500, 2021
As part of the effective altruism movement, Imogen has taken the ‘Giving What We Can’ pledge to donate a portion of her income to the organisations which can use it the most effectively to improve the lives of others via GiveWell’s Maximum Impact Fund.