Administrative Law or Judicial Review
Coroners or Inquests
Criminal Law
Employment Law
Lauren has been in practice since 2012. She specialises in serious and complex crime (including murders, complex frauds, and serious sexual offences), inquests, legacy proceedings, and judicial review, and has appeared in all levels of Court in Northern Ireland. She has experience in regulatory and employment law, tribunals and related advisory work, and has provided advice to public bodies such as the RQIA on regulatory and procedural matters.
2012 Member of the Bar of Northern Ireland
Member of the Criminal Bar Association
Member of the Coroner’s Panel of Junior Counsel
DV Clearance
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Criminology and Criminological Research, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. Specialism: fraud in Northern Ireland.
Master of Arts (MA), Law, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
R v NF [2024] NICA 67 - appeal against sentence, historic sexual abuse
R v John Miller [2023] NICA 81 - conviction appeal, murder
Clonoe Inquest [2025] NICoroner 1 - counsel to the coroner, legacy inquest