Clara called to the Bar as the Lord Reid Scholar for 2022.

Clara trained as a solicitor at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. She worked in busy local courts across Scotland for a total of three years. After qualifying as a solicitor, Clara worked in the jury trials team, and the domestic abuse prosecution team at Glasgow Sheriff Court. Clara also worked on extradition cases whilst at the COPFS.

Clara was seconded to work at Eurojust in The Hague, The Netherlands, where she was the COPFS representative and assisted on cases involving mutual legal assistance and the transborder prosecution of organised criminal groups.

In 2019, Clara began working in immigration and asylum law. She gained extensive experience in asylum and human rights appeals at the First-tier Tribunal. Clara frequently instructed Counsel in appeals to the Upper Tribunal and judicial reviews and worked on stopping removals and deportations from the UK.

Latterly, Clara worked for Burness Paull LLP (ranked Tier 1 for immigration in the Legal 500), on complex post-Brexit European Union applications and appeals, corporate immigration applications, and Appendix FM appeals to the First-tier and Upper Tribunals.

Clara has a particular interested in appellate work, both in immigration and criminal cases.