Leanna started her pupillage at Garden Court Chambers in October 2024.
Leanna has ten years’ experience working at legal charities. Most recently, she was a lawyer with the Global Legal Action Network, working on transnational litigation to address human rights violations and environmental harms. She was previously a Legal Adviser at REDRESS, an NGO that seeks justice and reparation for survivors of torture, where she led REDRESS’s work on securing the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from Iran.
Prior to this, Leanna was based in Iraq building prosecution cases against members of ISIS for the Yezidi genocide. Leanna began her career as a criminal defence solicitor advocate for Aboriginal people in the Australian outback.
Leanna has an LL.M. in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy and bachelor’s degrees in law and journalism from Australia. She is a qualified solicitor in New South Wales.
