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Laura Webster
Position
Laura became a tenant in April 2021 following a period of six months as a pupil barrister at New Square Chambers. Laura’s 12-month pupillage was completed with Wilberforce Chambers.
As a pupil Laura experienced a wide range of commercial chancery practice. Laura represented clients in her own right in the County Court, the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) and the High Court. Her advocacy experience as a pupil included acting in relation to several interim applications and appearing in a small claims hearing.
Prior to her pupillage Laura completed an LLM at UCL focused on financial and commercial law and from 2011 to 2015 she served as a District Councillor on South Norfolk Council. While studying her LLM, Laura was part of the team that represented UCL in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2016 which took place in Hong Kong and Vienna.
Career
Called to the Bar 2017; £5,000 Postgraduate Scholarship (City Law School); Hardwicke Entrance Award (Lincoln’s Inn); Prize for Distinguished Performance in Second Year Assessment (University of East Anglia).
Memberships
Property Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; STEP (student membership).
Education
Bar Professional Training Course, City Law School (Very Competent); LLM, University College London (Merit) (Dissertation Title: ‘Circumvention of a non-assignment clause: an analysis from the perspective of contractual interpretation’); Graduate LLB, BPP University (First Class Honours); BA in International Relations and Politics, University of East Anglia (First Class Honours).