Imogen joined chambers upon successful completion of her pupillage in October 2023. She practises predominantly in the areas of employment, discrimination, personal injury, and clinical negligence.

Employment & Discrimination

Imogen acts on behalf of claimants and respondents/defendants in a wide range of employment and discrimination matters, both as a junior and as sole counsel. Recent instructions include:

• Drafting the skeleton argument in an EAT case concerning the ET’s territorial jurisdiction under the Recast Brussels Regulations and/or rule 8 ET Rules. The substantive claim was valued at over £20 million.

• Successfully resisting (in full) an application to amend made by the Claimant during a case management preliminary hearing.

• Successfully representing a claimant in an unfair dismissal claim involving allegations of patient overdose.

• Representing the claimant in a discrimination remedy hearing concerning complex issues of causation, divisibility and apportionment of psychiatric injury.

• Representing a claimant doctor, struck off from the register, at a hearing concerning the tribunal’s jurisdiction under s.120(7) of the Equality Act 2010 in their claim against the GMC.

• Providing written advice on liability and quantum for a complex multi-day disability discrimination claim.

Imogen has also been instructed in the civil courts in relation to discrimination in goods & services.

Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence

Imogen also represents claimants in personal injury and clinical negligence claims. Recent instructions include:

• Drafting a particulars of claim for an ongoing dental negligence claim.

• Providing advice on quantum, along with a corresponding schedule of loss, for a claimant who was permanently injured in a public liability accident.

• Successfully representing the claimant in an application for specific disclosure under CPR 31.12.

• Providing written advice in a case of missed diagnosis (led by Joel Donovan KC).

• Additionally, Imogen regularly appears at CCMCs; infant approval hearings; stage 3 hearings under the RTA Protocol; and small claims track personal injury trials.

During pupillage, Imogen produced the first draft of complex pleadings and schedules of loss for Anna Beale and Sarah Fraser Butlin.

Prior to Cloisters

Prior to joining Cloisters, Imogen studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded an Academic Scholarship and subsequently graduated with First Class honours. During her studies, she developed a particular interest in semantics and linguistic analysis, which bears directly on her ability to digest, understand, and present complex information in a short space of time.

BVS (Distinction) – City, University of London

GDL (Distinction) – City, University of London

BA English Language and Literature (First Class) – University of Oxford

Queen Mother Scholarship – Middle Temple

Academic Scholarship – Pembroke College, Oxford

The Employment Law Bar Association, Member

The Personal Injury Bar Association, Member

Middle Temple, Member