2 Hare Court

Eleanor Lucas specialises in criminal law, public inquiries, and inquests.

In her criminal practice, Eleanor prosecutes and defends, appearing in the Crown Courts in relation to a wide range of criminal matters, acting as both a junior alone and a led junior. Recent instructions have included murder and GBH, serious sexual offences including rape and historic child sex offences, weapons offences, and drug offences. Eleanor is a Grade 3 CPS prosecutor. She was instructed for a number of years by Peters & Peters as junior counsel in relation to the Post Office ‘Horizon’ Appeals, reviewing hundreds of convictions originating from the Post Office’s use of data from the Horizon computer system in prosecutions between 2000 and 2014. Eleanor appeared in the Court of Appeal with Simon Baker KC in the case of Hawkes & Others v Post Office Ltd [2022] EWCA Crim 1197.

In her work on public inquiries, Eleanor was instructed on behalf of Post Office Ltd in relation to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, chaired by Sir Wyn Williams. She is currently instructed on behalf of the UK Health Security Agency in relation to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, chaired by the Rt Hon Baroness Hallett. Eleanor acts for families and other Interested Persons in inquest proceedings, most recently acting as a led junior for the family in a five-week Article 2 inquest concerning the death of an individual in prison.

Bar Professional Training Course (Outstanding), BPP Law School; Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), City Law School; BA Hons Politics & Criminology, University of Manchester; Vulnerable Witness Training, Middle Temple.

CPS Panel Advocate – Level 3; Government Legal Department “Junior Junior” Counsel Panellist; Women in Criminal Law

Scholarships/Awards: Hubert Greenland Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn; Buchanan Prize, Lincoln’s Inn; Overseas Placement Fund, Lincoln’s Inn; Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn; Hardwicke Entrance Award, Lincoln’s Inn; Advocacy Scholarship, BPP Law School; Damien Bourke Mooting Award, University of Manchester