Grace’s practice spans across employment, data and artificial intelligence, personal injury, clinical negligence and public law.

Employment Law

Grace accepts instructions across the full spectrum of employment and discrimination law, for both claimants and respondents/defendants. She has acted in multi-day cases involving complex issues and has appeared in the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Grace has particular expertise in the application of artificial intelligence and data protection to employment and discrimination law. She also has experience of both High Court and Employment Tribunal claims with a cross-border or international element.

Recent experience includes:

• Foxley v GPT, the Ministry of Defence and ors - High Court: Acting for the Claimant in an ongoing High Court international whistleblowing case relating to state sanctioned corruption on weapons contracts in Saudi Arabia (led by Derrick Dale KC and Jennifer Danvers). For recent press coverage, see the Guardian Long Read here: the Guardian

• Ambridge v. Maleary and others - High Court: Acting for Mr Maleary in an ongoing High Court restrictive covenant case (led by Paul Epstein KC and Paul Michell). For recent press coverage see here: The Insurer and Insurance Insider.

  Twist DX v Armes [2024] EAT 45: instructed by the Claimants in the EAT (led by Andrew Watson) in a complex appeal on the scope of the Employment Tribunal’s territorial jurisdiction for non-UK based Respondents. The Claim is pleaded at over £20 million and the Claimants were successful on almost all points. The case attracted comment in Employment Cases Update, Daniel Barnett and IDS.

• A Szucs v GreenSquare Group Ltd [2024] EAT 160: instructed by the Claimant unled in a successful appeal to the EAT concerning the correct test for victimisation causation and the application of Martin v Devonshires. The matter has now been remitted to the tribunal.

• Artificial Intelligence and Employment Bill for the Trades Union Congress: assisting Robin Allen KC and Dee Masters on the drafting of a bill to improve the regulation and protections relating to artificial intelligence in the workplace. Grace has also assisted Robin Allen and Dee Masters in advising on data protection law for an independent research institute.

• Acting for the workers in relation to a successful application to form a bargaining unit to the Central Arbitration Committee.

• Acting successfully for the Respondent care home in a multi-day discrimination and unfair dismissal final hearing.

• Acting successfully for the Respondent in a multi-day unfair and wrongful dismissal claim.

Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence

Grace is regularly instructed in matters relating to data or artificial intelligence. 

Recent experience includes:

• Artificial Intelligence and Employment Bill for the Trades Union Congress: assisting Robin Allen KC and Dee Masters on the drafting of a bill to improve the regulation and protections relating to artificial intelligence in the workplace.

• Advising a leading technological research institute on the implications of proposed amendments to the Data Protection Act 2018 on scientific research (led by Robin Allen KC and Dee Masters).

• Advising a high-earning commercial lawyer on the lawfulness of her former employer's on the territorial jurisdiction of the UK GDPR.

• Advising a leading Union on the lawfulness under data protection legislation of members’ employer (mis)using special category data to determine promotion and redundancy exercises.

Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence

Grace has appeared for personal injury and clinical negligence related matters in both the High Court and County Court. She is regularly brought in as junior counsel to draft complex multi-million-pound Schedules of Loss and advise on settlement. She also has a busy liability practice, including clinical negligence cases with complex causation issues.

She was a contributor to the 16th edition of Bingham and Berrymans' Personal Injury and Motor Claims Cases (2023), working on the Chapter “Principles of Quantum”.

Public Law

Grace has expertise in housing law, judicial reviews and inquests which touch on Article 2 issues. During her pupillage, she assisted in drafting pleadings in matters of sensitive public law. She has been instructed on housing/homeless judicial reviews including a review challenging the suitability of interim accommodation provided under section 188(1) of the Housing Act 1996 and a review challenging the adequacy of asylum accommodation provided under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Grace is on the Government Legal Department’s junior-junior scheme. She has been instructed by the Cabinet Office on the Covid Inquiry, and has been instructed as a junior for the Secretary of State for Justice in a judicial review challenging the operation of a high security prison regime.

Before Cloisters

Before coming to the bar, Grace read Mathematics at New College, Oxford, where she graduated with a First-Class degree. Her degree incorporated studies of statistical lifetime models and coding, which makes her well-placed to accept instructions which involve a mathematical dimension, whether due to complex technical or quantum components.

While at Oxford University, Grace was Campaigns Officer for the Amnesty International Society. Grace has worked on a variety of pro-bono projects including the School Exclusion Project and Camden Community Law Centre. At the latter, she gained experience in employment, housing and asylum law. She drafted written representations and acted as a legal advisor at the centre’s drop-in service.

The Buchanan Prize – Lincoln’s Inn

Lord Denning Scholarship – Lincoln’s Inn

The Dean of BPP Law School Scholarship - full fee scholarship for the Bar Training Course

Academic Scholarship – New College, University of Oxford

PIBA

ALBA

Bar Training Course, BPP (2021)

Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), City University (2019)

BA (Hons) Mathematics (First Class), University of Oxford, New College (2017)