Brick Court Chambers

Member of Chambers

From February to June 2024 and January to March 2025, Camilla worked as seconded external counsel at the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO), where she was involved in a range of public international law matters.

Camilla has been appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel for Public International Law in 2025.

Her recent experience as a sole advocate includes (i) appearing in the high court on a successful application for retrospective permission to serve a claim out of time (ii) striking out a claim for breach of contract brought against Microsoft Limited and (iii) successfully striking out a claim for defamation and fraud against solicitors for the Registrar.

Camilla has experience of interlocutory applications in a civil fraud context, including freezing orders in support of litigation and arbitration and contempt of court proceedings.

Prior to coming to the bar, Camilla worked in Slaughter and May’s London and Brussels offices, where she worked on the first standalone competition damages claims issued under the opt-out collective proceedings regime and a number of class actions arising out of ESG related claims (including claims brought by Malawian tobacco pickers against BAT in the English courts).

Camilla also worked as a seconded lawyer in the competition and arbitration departments of the Spanish firm Uría Menéndez in Madrid.

She has undertaken pro-bono work alongside her commercial work, representing asylum seekers in Thessaloniki and before the French immigration authority OFPRA in Paris. Camilla speaks Spanish, French and some Portuguese.

Camilla read English Literature at Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours and winning several University and College prizes

Call: 2022