An expert on common law constitutional rights, she has a particular interest in Public Law & Judicial Review and Information Law. During pupillage, she also gained experience in Planning and Environment, Housing, Licensing, Health and Social Care and Commercial and Regulatory Law.
Christina was called to the Bar in 2019 by Middle Temple as a Queen Mother Scholar and Jules Thorn Scholar. She holds a PhD in Constitutional Law from University College London (funded by the LAHP and the Modern Law Review), where she also held a position as Teaching Fellow in Public Law. Her academic work on common law constitutional rights has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Public Law and Legal Studies. Her book "Shaped by the Nuanced Constitution: A Critique of Common Law Constitutional Rights" will be published by Hart Publishing in 2022.
During her pupillage, Christina was supervised by Estelle Dehon, Philip Coppel QC and Dean Underwood. As such, she gained experience across a broad range of areas. This included work in the fields of information and data protection law, human rights law, judicial review, planning law, housing law (including licensing), commercial law and antisocial-behaviour law. She completed a wide range of advisory work, drafted various sets of pleadings, assisted in a planning inquiry and was involved in negotiations. Christina has also accepted criminal law instructions and recently qualified as a mediator.
Alongside her legal practice, Christina is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Law where she teaches Civil Litigation on the BPC and Public Law on the MA programme once a week.
Christina regularly provides pro bono advice through Advocate and the Brixton Advice Centre. She welcomes pro bono enquiries, especially those concerned with human/constitutional rights, ethnic inequality/discrimination, and the environment.
Prior to obtaining her doctorate, Christina read for an MJur at the University of Oxford (Distinction), where she was awarded the Clifford Chance Proxime Accessit Prize for being ranked second in her year. She also holds an LL.B. (Distinction) from the University of Maastricht, BPTC from City, University of London (Very Competent) and a GDL from the University of Law (Pass: Exempt).
Information and data protection law
• Drafted a skeleton argument opposing renewal of a judicial review human rights challenge under the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
• Prepared an info sheet for XR members on how to bring a claim against the police for harm or injury caused during an arrest.
• Contributed to an advice to the Equality and Human Rights Commission on their draft submissions to the UN Human Rights Committee concerning the UK's compliance with the rights to privacy, freedom of expression and association under the ICCPR.
• Prepared research notes and reviewed statements of case for a public sector equality duty judicial review defence.
Anti-social behaviour law
Planning and Environment law
Contract/tort/commercial law
Housing law
Court of Protection Law
Represented the Office of Public Guardian at a hearing determining capacity and appointing a deputy under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.