Anastasia Solopova, Juliet Smith and Sonder Li join Doughty Street as Pupils
We are delighted to welcome Anastasia Solopova, Juliet Smith and Sonder Li as they embark on their pupillage journey here at Doughty Street.
About Anastasia
Anastasia is the immigration specialist pupil.
Before commencing pupillage, Anastasia worked as an immigration and migrants’ rights solicitor for over 6 years. She primarily specialised in complex refugee family reunion applications, appeals and related public law challenges. Anastasia also had conduct of asylum claims; judicial reviews and civil claims related to immigration detention; and community care cases on behalf of migrants with no recourse to public funds.
Read more about Anastasia here.
About Juliet
Juliet is the housing and community care specialist pupil.
Before joining Doughty Street, Juliet worked as a paralegal in the Housing team at Edwards Duthie Shamash, where she managed a Legal Aid caseload covering social housing and private rented sector possession, homelessness, succession, disrepair and anti-social behaviour. She assisted clients who had related social care needs.
Juliet is experienced in communicating with vulnerable people and brings a trauma-informed approach to the Bar.
Read more about Juliet here.
About Sonder
Sonder is the general pupil at Doughty Street Chambers.
Sonder has wide-ranging experience in human rights advocacy developed through academic, voluntary, and trustee roles, with a focus on civil liberties, policing, and discrimination.
Prior to joining the Bar, Sonder worked as a legal assistant at a leading public law set, conducting research for King’s Counsel and junior tenants across public law, crime, actions against the police, and public international law.
Read more about Sonder here.
For more information on any of our new pupils, please contact our Senior Civil Clerk Sian Wilkins.
