Landmark Chambers

Betty accepts instructions across all of Landmark’s specialist practice areas, with a particular interest in public and administrative law matters.

Betty practices across public, planning and environmental, and property law. Following her successful completion of pupillage, Betty joined Landmark as a tenant in October 2026.

Betty brings wide-ranging experience from her work as a community care and public law paralegal, alongside time volunteering for an education law charity, and at Citizens Advice, specialising in housing and homelessness, and social security law.

Public Law

Betty is building a practice spanning the full spectrum of public law issues. Having grown up caring for a disabled sibling, Betty is familiar with supporting vulnerable individuals. She prides herself on her accessible approach.

Betty’s current and/or recent instructions include:

Drafting pleadings, including applications for urgent interim relief, in several challenges brought on behalf of disabled children against local authorities’ failures to secure special educational provision and social care

Appearing in the First-tier Immigration Tribunal on behalf of those seeking asylum

Appearing in the Court of Protection on behalf of the protected party instructed by the Official Solicitor in a health and welfare matter

Drafting an application for permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal on behalf of a PIP applicant, led by Alex Shattock

Advising on a possible judicial review challenging an ICB’s implementation of a mandatory waiting time for neurodevelopmental assessments, with Alex Shattock

Advising and drafting in a discrimination claim for a multi-academy trust, led by Katharine Elliot

Detailed research to prepare advice for a government department on the financial support provided to mentally ill persons who are detained or imprisoned, assisting Katharine Elliot

Property Law

Betty is part of the team of contributors to the Nearly Legal housing law blog. She is especially interested in cases at the intersection of property and public law.

Betty’s current and/or recent work includes:

A pro bono advice on a challenge to the suitability of temporary homelessness accommodation

Appearing in the County Court in possession proceedings

Detailed research on the implementation of the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023, assisting Justin Bates KC

Planning Law

Betty’s current and/or recent work during pupillage includes:

Acting for a developer seeking to build up to 200 dwellings near Didcot at a planning inquiry, led by Sasha White KC

Drafting in a planning law judicial review challenge to an Inspector’s finding on inappropriate development in the Green Belt, assisting Ben Fulbrook

Supporting in the preparation for a planning inquiry, acting for the Local Planning Authority enforcing against residential development in an agricultural setting, for Ben Fulbrook

Across all of her specialist areas, Betty is keen to develop a practice that promotes access to justice. Betty readily accepts legal aid instructions, and pro bono work where appropriate.