We are delighted to announce that Faith Osifo, Blánaid Ní Chearnaigh, Jamie McGowan, Freya Morgan and Anna Brennan have joined Chambers as full members, following successful completetion of their pupillage.
Faith Osifo (Call: 2023)
Faith specialises in criminal defence law, with a strong interest in youth justice and wider criminal matters, and recently secured a dismissal in a robbery case after challenging identification evidence. Prior to pupillage, Faith was a paralegal at a criminal defence firm in London. She helped to represent clients accused of a wide range of offences including drug trafficking, sexual offences, money laundering and illegal arms trafficking.
Previously, she was a County Court advocate, regularly appearing before judges in courts across London in a range of matters. Faith was also a Community Researcher for the Advice Services Alliance. Faith has extensive volunteering experience, including as an independent custody visitor in London, on the Amicus Missouri Project, and as a youth advocate with BLAM.
Blánaid Ní Chearnaigh (Call: 2024)
Blánaid is building a broad public law and civil liberties practice, with particular interests in inquests and inquiries, claims against public authorities, protest law, and international law. During pupillage, she has worked on actions against the police, including claims in false imprisonment and discrimination, alongside Article 2 inquests and judicial review across a range of civil liberties and human rights matters.
Prior to the Bar, Blánaid worked as a Legal Officer at REDRESS, focusing on discriminatory torture and accountability for violations of human rights and international criminal law. She also gained experience in criminal defence and financial crime at a leading domestic firm, and has built a strong background in human rights research and advocacy through work with a range of leading international human rights organisations.
Jamie McGowan (Call: 2025)
Jamie specialises in housing and homelessness law. He has experience in drafting pleadings in housing conditions claims, defences & counter-claims in possession proceedings, grounds & submissions in appeals, statements of facts & grounds in judicial reviews, skeleton arguments, and advice across all key areas. He also assisted in undertaking research in relation to the case of R (on the application of Bano) v Waltham Forest in the Supreme Court.
Prior to commencing pupillage, Jamie worked as a tribunal advocate at Justice for Tenants, where also provided legal advice to local authorities in respect of their housing enforcement activities. Jamie previously worked as a caseworker at Hammersmith & Fulham Law Centre.
Freya Morgan (Call: 2025)
Freya is building a mixed practice in immigration, community care and public law. During her pupillage, Freya appeared in the First-tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal, and the county court. She advised on and successfully sought interim relief against accommodation dispersals and inadequate EHCP provisions. Freya has strong drafting experience and has prepared skeletons, particulars, and grounds for social care and human rights appeals, out-of-country certifications, entry clearance, ARAP, and false imprisonment cases.
Prior to pupillage, Freya led the Afghan Pro Bono Initiative with Refugee Legal Support. She was also previously a specialist caseworker at Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID), where she represented clients in bail applications, deportation matters, and appeals to the First-Tier Tribunal.
Anna Brennan (Call: 2026)
Anna is developing a broad public and civil law practice, building on her previous legal experience. She has a strong background in legal analysis and drafting at all levels of the courts’ system. During pupillage, she assisted with matters in the First-tier Tribunal, Administrative Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and ECHR.
Anna qualified as a solicitor in 2019 and obtained Higher Rights of Audience (Civil) in 2020. Prior to the Bar, Anna was Reprieve’s Legal Officer, working on litigation surrounding complicity in torture, unlawful detention and abuses in counterterrorism. She also spent a year as a Judicial Assistant at the UK Supreme Court, and prior to that, was an associate solicitor at a large international law firm, where she specialised in international dispute resolution.
