Profile
Rachel joined chambers in October 2025 after completing her pupillage under the supervision of Victoria Ailes, Paul Jarvis KC and Michael Bisgrove.
She accepts instructions across the full range of Chambers’ practice areas, including crime, regulatory and public law.
Expertise
Rachel is a Grade 2 CPS prosecutor and is regularly instructed as both prosecution and defence counsel in the Crown Court and magistrates’ courts, in trial and pre-trial matters. Rachel also has experience acting as a Disclosure Junior.
Rachel defends clients in the Youth Court, most recently for serious offences including coercive and controlling behaviour and intentional strangulation.
Rachel has worked on multiple appeal matters, including being led by David Perry KC to draft advice in relation to a case stated and to oppose an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Rachel has experience acting for regulators in professional discipline proceedings and is instructed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for both interim and substantive hearings.
Rachel accepts instructions to defend individuals in proceedings before their regulators.
Rachel is a member of the Attorney Generals “Junior Junior” panel scheme and is regularly instructed on JJ work by the GLD. She gained experience in public law and extradition during her pupillage under the supervision of Victoria Ailes.
- BA (Law) – University of Cambridge (First, 2020)
- BCL – University of Oxford (Distinction, 2021)
- Bar Course – Inns of Court College of Advocacy (Distinction, 2024)
- No.5 Chambers Professional Ethics Prize (2024)
- Second Place in Civil Litigation (2023)
- Bedingfield Scholarship – Gray’s Inn (2023)
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