Bindmans LLP

Public Law and Human Rights.

Solicitor, Public Law and Human Rights

Theodora represents clients in challenges to the decisions and actions of public authorities. She acts in both public law matters, such as judicial reviews and complaints, and in civil claims against public bodies.

Theodora has wide-ranging public law experience, and a particular interest in strategic challenges. She has worked with various campaigners including market traders fighting the redevelopment of their market, and communities fighting cuts to local bus services. She has an interest in criminal record disclosure, and assisted with a Supreme Court intervention challenging the lawfulness of the current disclosure regime. She also assisted in obtaining the first licence for medicinal cannabis for a child with severe epilepsy.

Theodora is accredited as a Senior Caseworker in immigration and asylum, and specialises in cases at the intersection of immigration and public law, for example representing individuals who have been unlawfully detained by the Home Office, or those who have been refused adequate support while they await the determination of their asylum claims. She represents a number of individuals who were wrongly accused by the Home Office of cheating on a TOEIC English language test, in both public law challenges and immigration matters.

Theodora is also experienced in community care matters, including support under the Care Act 2014, support for care leavers, and support for families with no recourse to public funds.

Theodora joined Bindmans as a paralegal in 2017 and qualified as a solicitor in September 2020. She is accredited as a Senior Caseworker under the Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme.

Theodora graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in History. She then completed an MA in Legal and Political Theory at UCL, followed by the GDL at London Southbank University, where she achieved the highest mark in the year. In 2017, Theodora completed the LPC at the University of Westminster.