Imogen joined chambers upon successful completion of her pupillage in October 2023. She practises predominantly in the areas of employment, discrimination, personal injury, and clinical negligence.

Employment & Discrimination

Imogen acts on behalf of claimants and respondents/defendants in a wide range of employment and discrimination matters, both as junior and sole counsel.

Recent instructions include:

• Leading a presentation on, and participating in, a strategic discussion with Equality Commissioners on developing areas of discrimination law.

• Being instructed as part of a team of counsel in advising on and defending two large multiple equal pay claims, each with thousands of claimants.

• Appearing in the EAT to successfully argue that an appeal should proceed to a substantive hearing (led by Matt Jackson).

• Advising a bank on the equality implications of employee visa arrangements.

• Successfully representing a claimant in a 6-day constructive unfair dismissal claim.

• Advising an equality body on current and developing matters of discrimination law.

• Drafting the skeleton argument in an EAT case concerning the ET’s territorial jurisdiction under the Recast Brussels Regulations and/or rule 8 ET Rules. The substantive claim was valued at over £20 million.

• Representing the claimant in a discrimination remedy hearing concerning complex issues of causation, divisibility and apportionment of psychiatric injury.

• Representing a claimant doctor, struck off from the register, at a hearing concerning the tribunal’s jurisdiction under s.120(7) of the Equality Act 2010 in their claim against the GMC.

Imogen has also been instructed in the civil courts in relation to discrimination in goods & services.

Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence

Imogen also represents claimants in personal injury and clinical negligence claims. Recent instructions include:

• Drafting particulars, and providing ongoing advice, in relation to a public liability accident.

• Drafting particulars, and providing ongoing advice, in relation to a claim of missed cancer diagnosis.

• Drafting a schedule of loss in a Fatal Accidents Act claim.

• Providing ongoing advice in a complex stress at work claim.

• Drafting a particulars of claim for an ongoing dental negligence claim.

• Providing advice on quantum, along with a corresponding schedule of loss, for a claimant who was permanently injured in a public liability accident.

• Providing written advice in a case of missed diagnosis (led by Joel Donovan KC);

Additionally, Imogen regularly appears at CCMCs; infant approval hearings; stage 3 hearings under the RTA Protocol; and small claims track personal injury trials. During pupillage, Imogen produced the first draft of complex pleadings and schedules of loss for Anna Beale KC and Sarah Fraser Butlin KC.

Prior to Cloisters

Prior to joining Cloisters, Imogen studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded an Academic Scholarship and subsequently graduated with First Class honours. During her studies, she developed a particular interest in semantics and linguistic analysis, which bears directly on her ability to digest, understand, and present complex information in a short space of time.