Landmark Chambers

Eleanor accepts instructions across Chambers’ core practice areas, with a focus on planning, environmental, and public and administrative law. She is a member of the Attorney General’s “Junior Junior” scheme and a member of Advocate’s panel of barristers.

Eleanor accepts instructions across Chambers’ core practice areas, with a particular interest in planning, environmental, and public and administrative law. She is a member of the Attorney General’s “Junior Junior” scheme, a member of Advocate’s panel of barristers and editor of the Landmark Chambers Climate and Environment Law Blog. During pupillage, Eleanor assisted in a range of advisory and litigation work.

As a pupil, Eleanor was supervised by Hashi Mohamed, Richard Clarke, Julia Smyth KC, Sasha Blackmore KC and Matthew Fraser. During pupillage, Eleanor gained experience across planning, environmental, property, public and administrative law, rating and valuation and local government matters, assisting members of Chambers in a range of advisory and litigation work.

Some notable matters that she assisted with as a pupil include the following:

• A two-week public inquiry concerning an application for the comprehensive redevelopment of the Aylesham Centre in Peckham.

• A Development Consent Order hearing for the proposed Botley West Solar Farm – an £800m national infrastructure project.

• A judicial review concerning Old Sarum airfield which dealt with the issue of the validity of planning permission following a change in circumstance after the grant of permission.

• A High Court trial concerning the mitigation of loss from the failure of the Defendant to complete the sale and purchase of a house valued over £16 million.

• Advising a social landlord in a matter concerning Universal Credit housing overpayments.

• A judicial review by multiple universities against the Department for Education and Student Loans Company concerning the meaning of “distance learning” and subsequent availability of maintenance loans for students undertaking weekend courses.

• Advising a range of clients on issues of planning enforcement, including advising a local authority on using conditions to compel testing in a case of suspected PFAS contamination, and advising a landlord facing an allegation of material change of use and breach of planning conditions.

Before becoming a barrister, Eleanor worked in the Law Commission’s Public Law and Law in Wales team, first as a research assistant and then as a legal assistant. She worked on all stages of the Aviation Autonomy project, researching the existing legal framework and making recommendations to enable the regulation of autonomous and highly automated systems and vehicles, including drones and autonomous passenger-carrying aircraft. As a result, she is well placed to advise on legal issues arising from the use of AI and autonomy and has experience navigating technical regulatory regimes, including those in assimilated EU law post-Brexit.

Additional experience prior to joining the Bar includes:

Advising on equality law and restrictions on deplatforming following the introduction of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 as a research assistant to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Culture, Equality and Inclusion at the University of Sussex.

Documenting the international legal response to the COVID pandemic as an editorial assistant on the Lex-Atlas 19 project.

Researching the legal and constitutional implications of Brexit as a research assistant at the UCL Constitution Unit working on “The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit”.

Eleanor is a safeguarding link governor at a state primary school and children’s centre in north-west London. In this role, she has gained experience in joining a multi-academy trust, ensuring compliance with education law and policy, and school exclusions.

Eleanor graduated with a first-class Law degree from the University of Oxford and obtained an LLM from UCL specialising in public law.

Eleanor attended a northern, state comprehensive school and is passionate about improving access to the Bar. She volunteers with the 93% Club and other organisations to support students from historically excluded backgrounds in accessing the legal profession. During her time at the Law Commission, she acted as outreach lead, developing and implementing the organisation’s university outreach strategy.