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Kendal Watkinson

Position

Kendal joined Chambers in September 2022 following the successful completion of her pupillage. She was supervised by Jonathan Moss, Gwilym Harbottle and Thomas St Quintin. During pupillage, Kendal gained experience in copyright and design, trade marks and passing off, confidential information, media and entertainment, patents, and IT. During her second six, Kendal was instructed on various matters in her own right. She is now developing a broad IP practice in line with Chambers’ profile.

Kendal graduated from the University of Oxford with a distinction on the BCL. During her time at Oxford, she specialised in IP and Computer Science. She also has a first class law degree from Queen Mary University of London, where she received various awards including the Roger Crane Medal for outstanding academic performance. During her undergraduate studies, she spent a year on exchange at the University of Hong Kong. Kendal received a full scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn for the Bar course and was also a residential scholar of the Inn.

Prior to starting pupillage, Kendal spent some time working in the Copyright and Enforcement Directorate at the IPO. As part of the Digital Technologies Team, her work was focused on the interaction between Artificial Intelligence and IP law.

Languages

English

Memberships

Kendal is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. She is registered with the Bar Standards Board of England and Wales (Bar Ref: 74701).

She has professional indemnity insurance provided by the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund (BMIF Ref: 2190/064). Please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided, and the BMIF’s contact details.

Education

Qualifications

BCL, University of Oxford (2020-2021) – Distinction

LLM & BPTC, BPP Law School (2019-2020) – Distinction

LLB (Exchange), University of Hong Kong (2017-2018) – Year Abroad

LLB (Honours), Queen Mary University of London (2015-2019) – First Class

Awards

BPP Professional Development Award (2020)

Lincoln’s Inn Residential Scholarship (2019)

Sir Thomas More Scholarship (2019)

Roger Crane Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement (2019)

Queen Mary Mandarin Language Scholarship (2018)

Reed Smith Pro Bono Award (2017)

 

Personal

Kendal’s hobbies consist of travelling the world, taking photographs on her vintage film cameras, and Thai boxing.