Clara called to the Bar as the Lord Reid Scholar in 2023.

Since calling, Clara has developed a busy mixed practice. She has been appointed as an ad hoc Advocate Depute and as a Standing Junior to the Office of the Advocate General.

Clara is frequently instructed in criminal trials as junior alone, or with senior Counsel for both prosecution and defence. She regularly acts for the both Crown and defence in the Appeal Court.

Clara has a keen interest in inquiry work, and is instructed in the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry, the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Inquiry, and several Fatal Accident Inquiries.

Clara continues to develop her family law practice, having been instructed in proofs in the Court of Session and the Sheriff Court, including in child law cases with international or cross-border factors.

Clara has carried on her work in immigration, asylum, and human rights law. She has extensive experience in dealing with asylum appeals, as well as complex applications, appeals, or judicial reviews on behalf of EU nationals affected by Brexit and migrants who have become victim to domestic abuse.

Clara trained as a solicitor at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, where she also worked as a qualified solicitor for several years. She was seconded to EuroJust in The Hague, where she represented the COPFS on the UK Desk and assisted in the prosecution of organised crime groups involved in transborder crime.

Clara also worked in a busy legal aid asylum law team at a mid-sized firm, and worked in a firm 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.