After reading PPE at Magdalen College, Oxford, Katie completed the CPE and BVC in London.  A member of Middle Temple, she was awarded a Queen Mother Scholarship and the Anglo-American Scholarship by the Inn.  She was graded Outstanding on the BVC and received a Middle Temple Certificate of Honour for her performance. While on the BVC, Katie represented Middle Temple in the World Debating Championships 2005 in Kuala Lumpa and was one half of the winning pair in the Inter-Inn Mooting Competition 2005.

After reading PPE at Magdalen College, Oxford, Katie completed the CPE and BVC in London.  A member of Middle Temple, she was awarded a Queen Mother Scholarship and the Anglo-American Scholarship by the Inn.  She was graded Outstanding on the BVC and received a Middle Temple Certificate of Honour for her performance. While on the BVC, Katie represented Middle Temple in the World Debating Championships 2005 in Kuala Lumpa and was one half of the winning pair in the Inter-Inn Mooting Competition 2005.

In addition to her broad commercial practice, Katie is routinely instructed in all core areas of chambers work.  In particular, she has considerable experience in professional liability claims and is regularly instructed both in an advisory capacity and to draft pre-action protocol correspondence and statements of case. Katie also has experience in advising on insurance coverage, particularly in the context of the Law Society’s Minimum Terms and Conditions and is regularly instructed to advise and draft pleadings for more general insurance work. In addition, Katie has substantial experience in construction disputes, having spent time on secondment in a construction department to a leading city firm.

Katie enjoys working in a team.  For example, as a junior, she acted (together with Paul Sutherland) for a steelwork subcontractor in a five-week trial before Mr Justice Akenhead (see Galliford Try Infrastructure Ltd & Anor v Mott MacDonald Ltd [2008] EWHC 1570 (TCC) (17 July 2008)) and had considerable involvement in the preparation for the  limitation trial relating to the Atomic Veterans Litigation before Mr Justice Fostkett in January – February 2009.  She  was also instructed, together with Ben Hubble QC and Helen Evans, in the claim brought by AXA Insurance Limited in CLE Litigation (known as “son of TAG”), having previously been instructed in relation to the original TAG litigation.   Katie also is currently acting (together with Justin Fenwick QC) in the claim brought by the City headhunting firm, Hogarth Davies and Lloyd, against Nomura arising from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and (together with Sue Carr QC) in a £39,000,000 claim “lost opportunity” claim against a firm of surveyors arising from GAP Funding application made to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Katie can be seen regularly in the TCC, High Court and County Courts on trials, interlocutory hearings and appeals.  She also has experience in mediation.

Katie is a member of the Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR, PNBA and TECBAR.