Administrative Law or Judicial Review
Coroners or Inquests
Criminal Law
Prior to practice at the Bar, Helena gained extensive experience in the NGO sector. She worked as Litigation Officer at the AIRE (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe) Centre, a specialist law centre in London, and was responsible for management and drafting of the Centre’s litigation before the European Court of Human Rights, Court of Justice of European Union and national courts on cases including community care and family law. Helena supervised the centre’s advice line, and worked as part of the AIRE Centre’s Balkans Rule of Law project providing training on European Human Rights law to the judiciary, prosecutors and lawyers in Serbia and Montenegro.
Subsequently Helena worked as a Legal Consultant at the Social Action Centre, Kiev, Ukraine, advising and training local lawyers. She trained local NGOs, lawyers and INGOs in Kiev on litigation procedure before the ECtHR.
More recently Helena worked for the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health (Niamh Wellbeing) as Policy Officer on the development of policy and responses to Government consultations including the Welfare Reform Bill, the Mental Capacity Bill and on issues such as workplace mental health, detention, stigma, suicide and health reform.
2010; University of Oxford, Worcester College, MA (Oxon), 2008 BA (Oxon) Jurisprudence (Law) Class 2.1
2015; Institute of Professional Legal Studies, PG Dip Professional Legal Studies, Commendation
Human Rights Lawyers Association Bursary
European Cross Border Justice, A Case Study of the European Arrest Warrant, AIRE Centre (Contributor)
Case summaries for the European Human Rights Reports (EHRR)
Human Rights in Europe Bulletin, AIRE Centre (Co-editor)