GCN welcomes new pupils Bethany Currie and Misha Nayak-Oliver

7 October 2024

Chambers is delighted to announce that Bethany Currie and Misha Nayak-Oliver commenced their pupillage on Tuesday 1 October 2024.

Beth and Misha will be supervised during their pupillage by Mikhil Karnik, Tom Royston and Lucy Mair.

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 has also worked for other Members of Parliament in research and casework roles, assisting vulnerable constituents with housing, benefits, and immigration cases. Beth 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.

Before coming to the bar, Misha was a paralegal in group litigation at Leigh Day. She worked with charities and non-governmental organisations to scrutinise government policies and practices, and primary and secondary legislation. She delivered pro bono Lawyers Against Poverty legal information sessions on public law, social welfare, housing and homelessness, and immigration and asylum. At Fair Trials, she worked on strategic litigation and legal research concerning the right to a fair trial, extradition, freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention, access to counsel, pre-trial detention, plea-bargaining, and ensuring a fair and public hearing by an impartial tribunal.

We wish them every success during their pupillage.

You can find more information about Chambers’ Pupillage application process here.