Julia graduated from University College London with a BA Hons in Politics before converting to law. She has an MPhil in Criminology from the University of Cambridge; Julia wrote her criminology thesis on the shortcomings of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

From 2013 to 2014, Julia worked for the UK Parliament and the Foreign Office writing press releases and speeches and responding to constituents and government ministers. She co-authored the “Leiden Guidelines” pertaining to the use and admission of Digitally Derived Evidence.

While undertaking her Barrister Training at City, University of London, Julia volunteered for the National Centre for Domestic Violence drafting witness statements for non-molestation orders and in 2019 she was called to the bar by The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. Julia was also selected as a Kalisher Trust Advocacy Scholar in 2019 and in 2021 as President of the Cambridge University Graduate Law Society, she interviewed Lady Hale about the importance of diversity in the law.

She has demonstrable advocacy success, having competed in the Hague Academy of International Law ‘Day of Crisis’ competition in April 2022. The competition was judged by Hilary Charlesworth, Judge at the International Court of Justice and Bernard Bot, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, amongst others. She won the sole advocacy prize for her submissions regarding a hypothetical espionage treaty.

In 2023, Julia worked at the International Criminal Court in Trial Chamber I on the case of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (‘Ali Kushayb’). She drafted decisions, orders, and directions on behalf of the judges and also carried out legal research, reviewed Victims’ applications, drafted reparations submissions, and attended Court.

Julia began her criminal pupillage in January 2025 under the supervision of Paul Stimson and James Smith-Wilds.

Julia speaks advanced Spanish, French and German, intermediate Polish, and beginner Russian and Arabic. Her writing and research skills are wide-ranging, having written extensively on modern slavery and human trafficking, torture, genocide, gang violence, police accountability, violence against women and girls, domestic abuse, and crimes against humanity.