Natalie Lucas, Percy Preston, Jordan Briggs and Simon Bennett join Doughty Street as Full Tenants
Doughty Street Chambers is delighted to announce that Natalie Lucas, Percy Preston, Jordan Briggs and Simon Bennett have successfully completed their pupillages and join Doughty Street as tenants.
About Natalie
Natalie is developing a cross-disciplinary practice encompassing extradition, criminal law, inquests and civil actions against authorities. She has a particular interest in cases involving state accountability and the intersection of criminal and civil proceedings. During pupillage, Natalie appeared before the Magistrates' Court, Crown Court, County Court and Coroners' Court.
Prior to joining the bar, Natalie qualified as a solicitor at a leading international law firm specialising in high-value, cross-border arbitrations. More recently, she worked at REDRESS, where she focused on strategic litigation against torture and led its work on financial accountability of perpetrators of human rights abuses and serious corruption.
Read more about Natalie here.
About Percy
Percy specialises in media and information law.
Over the pupillage year, Percy gained experience across the range of media disputes, including defamation, privacy, harassment, malicious falsehood and data protection claims, reporting restrictions and European and international freedom of expression matters.
Prior to pupillage, Percy worked as a copywriter and freelance writer and later as a paralegal at a leading media law firm. During his time as a paralegal, he worked across a range of media disputes and managed his own caseload.
Read more about Percy here.
About Jordan
Jordan practises in the Court of Protection, personal injury claims and inquests.
Jordan has a diverse practice spanning mental capacity law, mental health law, personal injury law and inquests. He completed one of the first pupillages in England and Wales specialising in Court of Protection work.
Before coming to the Bar, Jordan worked in a leading national law firm in a team appointed Deputy for over one thousand clients’ property and financial affairs. He now uses that experience when questions of property and affairs arise, whether in isolation or in the context of wider litigation, and whether instructed by the protected party or public bodies.
Read more about Jordan here.
About Simon
Simon specialises in employment, discrimination, and education law and accepts instructions across the full range of matters within these fields.
Prior to coming to the bar, Simon worked as a Legal Caseworker for United Voices of the World (‘UVW’), a trade union with a membership composed primarily of low-paid and precarious migrant workers. In this role, Simon regularly appeared unassisted in the Employment Tribunal in matters across the spectrum of employment law, including multi-day hearings in relation to Equality Act claims and trade union and whistleblowing detriment claims.
Read more about Simon here.
- For Natalie please contact Chloe Cousins.
- For Percy Preston please contact Melvin Warner.
- For Jordan Briggs please contact Emily Norman.
- For Simon Bennett please contact Callum Stebbing.
