Beth Currie is in the second six of her pupillage with Garden Court North, and is accepting instructions.
During her first six, Beth gained experience in all areas of chambers’ expertise, in particular in inquests and protest rights. She shadowed a range of inquests where members were acting on behalf of bereaved families in relation to deaths in detention settings, following police contact, and in the community. She observed hearings from each stage of the inquest process, from pre-inquest review hearings to jury inquests, as well as legal argument on the engagement of Article 2. She has experience drafting legal submissions, including on the engagement of Article 2. She also shadowed a number of protest-related trials in both the Magistrates’ Court and the Crown Court for offences including criminal damage, public nuisance, and public order offences. She observed a substantial amount of legal argument in these cases.
In second six, Beth has been instructed on matters relating to crime and protest rights, defending possession proceedings, civil actions against the police, and parole board hearings.
Prior to pupillage Beth spent four years as the Senior Researcher for a member of Labour’s Shadow Justice Team working on legislative scrutiny and policy development relating to courts, sentencing, and legal aid. She therefore has substantial expertise in parliamentary advocacy and campaigning. She has also worked for other Members of Parliament in research and casework roles, assisting vulnerable constituents with housing, benefits, and immigration cases. She is particularly interested in sentencing and prison law. Her MPhil examined prisoners’ experience of variable sentencing through correspondence-based research. She is also a Trustee of the Sentencing Academy.
Beth’s achievements include a Inner Temple Major Scholarship for the BPC and an Inner Temple Exhibition Award and ULaw Career Changer Scholarship for the GDL. She was also named proxime accesserunt for the Manuel López-Rey Graduate Prize and awarded a St Edmund’s College Prize for her performance in the MPhil Criminological Research.
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