Introduction
Sonia is a second six pupil undertaking work across all areas of Chambers’ practice.
Sonia comes to Chambers after working as a paralegal in two leading London law firms, one specialising in criminal defence and one specialising in public and private children law. Sonia worked on cases involving cash detention and forfeiture proceedings, multi-million pound confiscation orders after POCA convictions, complex Crown Court matters including PWITS, robbery and murder, and niche regulatory proceedings including taxi license appeals and HMRC AML decision appeals.
Sonia also assisted with a busy caseload of public and private children proceedings acting for CAFCASS Guardians. Sonia worked on cases involving issues of domestic abuse, sexual abuse, parental alienation, deprivation of liberty orders, competent children clients and FDAC proceedings.
During the first half of pupillage, Sonia gained experience in a wide area of Chambers' practice, including financial remedy proceedings, leave to remove from the jurisdiction proceedings in the Family Court, Environmental Protection Act prosecutions in the Magistrates Court and multi-million pound money laundering and human trafficking prosecutions in the Crown Court.
Sonia is keen to promote access to justice for all clients and is committed to a Legal Aid practice in both the criminal courts and for family matters.
As a second six pupil, Sonia is not a tenant/member of 33 Bedford Row.
Education
BPTC with LLM – BPP Law School: 2019-2020 (Very Competent)
Senior Status LLB – SOAS, University of London: 2017-2019
Bachelor of Arts, Economics and International Development – McGill University, Canada: 2013-2017
Awards & Prizes
Ann Goddard Pupillage Scholarship, Gray’s Inn 2023
BPP Advocacy Scholarship 2019
Memberships
The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
Young Fraud Lawyers Association
Family Law Bar Association
Criminal Bar Association
Women in Criminal Law
Legal Sector Workers United