Carola joined 4 New Square in October 2021 following the successful completion of her pupillage, during which she was supervised by Shail Patel, Tom Shepherd, and Matthew Bradley. She is developing a broad commercial practice in line with Chambers’ core areas of work, with a particular interest in commercial dispute resolution, civil fraud, professional liability, and insolvency. Examples of her recent work can be found under the relevant practice area headings below.
Before coming to the Bar, Carola read History at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a First (4th highest in year) and winning several University and College prizes. She took a year out to teach English in China, before undertaking the Graduate Diploma in Law at Oxford Brookes and an LLM at Cambridge. While at Oxford, Carola won the University’s Ronnie Payne Prize for Student Journalism. She has been published in several national newspapers and magazines, and during pupillage won first prize in The Times Law Awards.