Anna has extensive experience in equality and human rights law, with an acute grasp of the law governing belief discrimination and its place alongside common law and European Convention protections for freedom of expression. She offers particular expertise on freedom of expression in academic and educational settings.
As well as this, Anna has substantial experience working with the protected characteristics of “disability”, and hidden disabilities in particular; a rapidly expanding area in equality and anti-discrimination law. She also offers specialist expertise in education and public & administrative law
Recent notable cases:
Convery v Bristol Street Fourth Investments Ltd: https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/mrs-l-convery-v-bristol-street-fourth-investments-ltd-1807364-slash-2020
A keen advocate of diversity at the Bar, Anna believes reforms in legal education are key to building a profession that is more representative of society. She is a champion of mature law students who have embraced risk and costs to retrain for the bar, bringing unique early career skills to the profession, as well as life experience.
With over 15 years of experience in teaching and legal research in the university sector, Anna is a specialist in Central and Eastern European history and law. She is an expert on comparative approaches to common and civil law systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and does not take civil liberties for granted.
Anna speaks German and Hungarian.
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