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Imogen Proud
Position
Imogen is a public law specialist. She is regularly instructed in the most high-profile judicial reviews and in cases of national significance.
Imogen’s wide-ranging public law practice includes the following areas:
- Commercial judicial review
- Human rights and civil liberties
- Education law
- Community care
- Local government
- Age disputes
- Regulatory law
Imogen’s public law practice encompasses a number of Monckton’s specialist areas including procurement, EU law/EU relations law, telecommunications and commercial and utilities regulation.
Imogen was appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel when 3 years into tenancy. She entered the legal directories in her fourth year of tenancy.
Now 6 years’ call, Imogen has 13 reported cases, 4 of which are categorised by Westlaw UK as ‘significant’ judgments. She has appeared in the Court of Appeal four times and in 2022 appeared for the first time in the Supreme Court for the successful Secretary of State in R (VIP) v SSHD, a national security case.
Imogen was shortlisted for an award in the Women in Law Awards 2020 in the category “Rising star – barrister/advocate of the year”.
Career
Called 2015.
Before coming to the Bar, Imogen read Philosophy at Cambridge, graduating with a double first and coming third across the university in both parts I and II of Tripos.
She had a first career as a state school classroom teacher in Hackney; a challenging environment in which success demanded clear and persuasive communication, and grit. This also gave Imogen first-hand experience of working in the public sector which she puts to use in her public law practice. Imogen then went to City Law School, where she was awarded a Distinction in the GDL and Outstanding in the BPTC. Imogen is a Wadoryu karate black belt.
Education
BA (Cambridge) Double First Class Honours; PGCE (Cambridge); GDL (City Law School) Distinction; BPTC (City Law School) Outstanding
Leisure
Imogen is a Wadoryu karate black belt.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Education
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Imogen Proud – Monckton Chambers
‘Imogen knows education law in enormous detail. She is very diligent and hard-working, and her written output is always first-rate.’
London Bar > Court of Protection and community care
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Imogen Proud – Monckton Chambers ‘Imogen is a supremely capable advocate. She has a detail-orientated approach, analytically breaking down the legal points and facts of the case to advise on the strengths and weaknesses of the case. She is a fierce advocate, communicating her points clearly, and can identify weaknesses in oral arguments with pinpoint accuracy.’
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Imogen Proud –Monckton Chambers ‘Imogen’s attention to detail is a true credit to her. She impresses everyone in the courtroom, and is a fierce advocate, communicating her points clearly with ease.’