Marianne Schönle

Call: 2025

Call 020 7827 4000

Marianne began pupillage at Cloisters in October 2025 and is interested in all areas of Chambers’ expertise.
Before coming to the Bar, Marianne was a Senior Policy Officer at Maternity Action. She worked on the employment and social security rights of pregnant women and new parents, preparing submissions to official consultations and leading the charity’s responses to the Employment Rights Bill. Marianne also ran the Alliance for Maternity Rights, a coalition of trade unions and campaigning organisations.
Prior to that, Marianne was the Senior Legal Officer and previously the Legal and Parliamentary Officer at the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association. She has also worked in a paralegal role for a partnership of immigration barristers.
Marianne served as Secretary of the Human Rights Lawyers Association for two years. She has volunteered for the Free Representation Unit, the School Exclusion Project, and The Unity Project.
She speaks English, French, and Russian.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Bar Practice (Merit) - The Inns of Court College of Advocacy, award conferred by King’s College London (2024)
Master of Laws in Human Rights Law (Distinction) - University College London (2021)
Graduate Diploma in Law (Commendation) - City, University of London (2019)
Graduate Certificate in Music, Principal Study: Piano (Distinction) - Guildhall School of Music & Drama (2018)
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Music (First Class, starred First in Part IB and Part II) - University of Cambridge (2017)
Awards
Bar Course Exhibition Scholarship - Inner Temple (2022)
GDL Scholarship - City, University of London (2018)
Thérèse Montefiore Memorial Prize - Girton College, University of Cambridge, awarded for outstanding academic achievement and contributions to the College (2017)
Ruth and Mike Smith Words-and-Music Prize - Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, awarded for the best dissertation on relationships between words and music (2017)
Sophia Turle Scholarship and Beatrice Mills College Prize - Girton College, University of Cambridge, awarded for excellence in examinations (2017)
Donald Wort Prize - Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, awarded for achieving the joint highest examination mark in the year (2016)
Phyllis Tillyard Prize and Sophia Turle Scholarship - Girton College, University of Cambridge, awarded for excellence in examinations (2016)
London Girton Association Music Award (2015)
Girton College Music Scholarship (2014, 2016)
Instrumental Awards for Chamber Music Scheme - University of Cambridge (2014-2017)
Personal Injuries Bar Association (PIBA)
Industrial Law Society (ILS)
Employment Law Bar Association (ELBA)
Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
Human Rights Lawyers Association (HRLA) - Secretary 2023-2025, Executive Committee member 2021-2025, Young Lawyers Committee member 2020-2021