Barrister, 39 Essex Street
Nicola is a versatile advocate with a diverse and multi-disciplinary practice encompassing clinical negligence, personal injury, Court of Protection (COP), public and regulatory law, costs and litigation funding and sports law. She is instructed in high-value, legally and procedurally complicated cases which often have a high degree of sensitivity or novelty, and generate press and public interest. She is frequently instructed in brain injury, spinal injury, amputation and complex psychiatric injury claims.
Nicola is instructed by claimants as well as the NHS, central government, private health care providers, regulators and other public authorities.
Before taking silk, she served on all three Attorney General panels.
She is an experienced advocate in a variety of courts including the Court of Appeal and the High Court and has appeared before a range of regulatory tribunals.
She is experienced in group litigation, specialist group litigation costs and litigation funding. She is currently acting as funding counsel for the Ford Defendants in the Pan-NOx Emissions group litigation.
She has an expertise in safeguarding arising from her work with vulnerable adults in the COP and in sexual abuse claims in the civil context. She sits as an arbitrator on Sports Resolution’s Safeguarding Panel and has acted for governing bodies and individuals in safeguarding cases in sport. Nicola has been instructed in a number of high-profile cases involving individuals who have recently discovered that they were swopped at birth as babies and grew up with their non-biological parents. She is also instructed in litigation arising out of treatment provided by the GIDS service at the Tavistock clinic.