
2 Hare Court
Barristers

Laura Stephenson
- Phone020 7353 5324
- Email[email protected]
- Profilewww.2harecourt.com
Position
Laura is ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as a leading junior in professional discipline. She is adept at tackling cases involving healthcare professionals and complex medical issues, which often traverse her practice areas.
She has extensive experience of public inquiries and large-scale inquests: currently acting as Senior Junior counsel to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry and representing a doctor in the Inquests into the Deaths of the Patients of Ian Paterson. She was previously instructed as junior counsel in the Infected Blood Inquiry.
Laura has a busy coronial practice, primarily representing medical professionals, healthcare providers and government departments in inquests. She is a member of the Attorney General’s Civil C Panel.
Laura sits as an Assistant Coroner for South London alongside her main practice.
Career
Year of Call 2012.
Memberships
Appointed Assistant Coroner for South London (Croydon); Attorney General’s Civil Panel C; CPS Advocate Panel – Level 3; Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers; Criminal Bar Association; Young Fraud Lawyers Association.