Nicole has a fast-growing courtroom practice, regularly appearing in fast-track trials and interim applications. She has acted in matters ranging from flight delay and cancellation disputes, personal injury trial, small claims against local authorities and statutory bodies, housing disrepair cases, and costs and case management hearings.
Nicole also maintains a busy paperwork practice, drafting advices and pleadings across her areas of expertise.
Prior to joining Chambers, Nicole graduated from UCL with First-Class Honours and went on to achieve a distinction in the Bar Course with the support of a Lord Denning Scholarship.
Alongside her practice, Nicole takes an interest in the intersection of artificial intelligence and public policy, having spoken in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords on the topic. She currently serves as an associate of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.
Outside of law, Nicole enjoys travelling, and prides herself in having once successfully negotiated and hitch-hiked her way from London to Lille without spending any money.
Nicole regularly appears in fast-track trials and interim application hearings, including cases involving credit hire, loss of earnings and involving allegations of fundamental dishonesty under section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. She also has experience with direction and costs and case management hearings on the multi-track.
She also has experience in a range of personal injury and travel matters, including relating to the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018.
Recent examples include:
During pupillage, Nicole gained experience drafting statements of cases, skeleton arguments, and advices to assist her supervisors on a number of other matters, including:
Nicole regularly appears as sole counsel in claims under EC Regulation 261/2004, including matters concerning flight delays and cancellations arising from “extraordinary circumstances.”, as well as jurisdictional disputes relating to multi-leg flight bookings.
During pupillage, Nicole assisted her supervisors in a variety of aviation matters, including:
Nicole acts regularly as sole counsel in housing matters, including disrepair claims under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1986, involving disputes over notice and causation. She has provided advice on possession claims, in relation to both section 21 and section 8 notices.
Prior to joining chambers, Nicole taught the “homelessness” case study module to first-year law students at UCL.
Nicole accepts instructions across the full range of commercial work.
She recently acted for a letting agent in a claim for £3,000, defeating the Defendant’s £19,000 counterclaim, after successfully arguing the contract was void for common mistake.
Further, during pupillage she assisted:
Nicole is developing an insolvency practice, having appeared in winding-up and bankruptcy petitions, and advised on validation orders and the prospects of rescinding a winding-up order
Administrative, Constitutional & Public
Nicole recently acted for a circuit judge and two district judges in an application to re-instate proceedings in a claim for “misfeasance in the public office” for damages arising from various allegations of judicial impropriety in the course of family proceedings. The application was successfully resisted on the basis that judges have “judicial immunity” from civil proceedings arising from anything said or done in the exercise of their jurisdiction.
Nicole gained experience in appeals to the Privy Council particularly from the Caribbean during pupillage. This includes:
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