Helen Easterbrook Email & Phone Number

35 Bedford Row, London

Listed as a Leading Junior in the Legal 500 2025, 2024 and 2023 having been ranked as a Rising Star in 2022 and 2021.CPS Grade 3 (RASSO)Notable CasesR v A & ors (ongoing – Led Junior) Prosecution of an organised crime gang using Encrochat phones to supply kilo quantities of Class A drugs.R v B (2024) Successful defence of a Royal Navy sailor accused of assault. In a first for the Service Justice System witnesses gave evidence from sea while the ship was in an active operational theatre.R v K (2024) Defence of a youth charged with grooming younger children via Discord, the evidence primarily relating to IP addresses and platform login details.R v H (2023 – Led Junior) Defence of a man accused of fabricating multiple personalities in order to commit rape.R v T (2023) Successful defence of an 11 year old charged with the triple rape of his very young sister.R v W (2023 - Led Junior) Defending a live in carer charged under the Modern Slavery 2015 in relation to his bed-bound client.R v P (2023) Prosecution of death by careless driving.R v A (2022) Successful defence of client charged with aggravated burglary where the Crown alleged two males had forced their way into a home at knifepoint before threatening the occupant, his wife and four young children.R v B (2021) Successful prosecution of over £100k fraud committed through abuse of a power of attorney.R v R (2021) Represented the first defendant of a couple charged with the historic sexual abuse of the wife's cousins and their own daughter. Acquitted of two out of ten counts and with the most serious count reduced to a lesser alternative.

United Kingdom

Completed the Advanced Command and Staff Course (Reserves) in 2024.• Submarine Controller:o Responsible for providing a tactical safety service for conventional and nuclear submarines.o Requires the timely processing of considerable amounts of highly detailed information, précising the same into written documentation and verbal presentations.• Rules of Engagement Officer:o Provide guidance on Rules of Engagement/International Law of the Sea.• Divisional Officer:o Line manager and representative during disciplinary proceedings.

Courtroom Skills trainer

2 King'S Bench Walk, London (Incorporating Chambers Of Marion Smullen, 1Itl)

London, United Kingdom

• Regular advocacy experience delivering courtroom skills training at the College of Policing, to medical practitioners at the Havens sexual assault referral centre, and as part of the Mobile Location in Evidence Tradecraft lecture series.• Speaker at the International Communications Data & Digital Forensics Seminars 2013.• Member of a team producing multimedia training for juries and the judiciary on the use, presentation and summing up cell-site evidence in conjunction with the Home Office, College of Policing and other experts in this field.

London

• Internship August –September 2011• Full time staff from November 2011 to October 2013• Consultant from October 2013 to March 2014• Responsible for redesigning Chambers’ website as part of wider improvements to Chambers’ marketing strategy.• Also responsible for the Library delivering: o over £20,000 worth of savings in first year June 2012, o training to members of Chambers in the use of online research facilities, and o case search/research facility for members of Chambers.

• Selected from a pool of other LLB graduates with a wide range of backgrounds and experience in the legal sector.• Worked to short deadlines as part of a small team testing the dissertation module for its pedagogical value and factual veracity.

• Full-time study• Continued Royal Naval Reserve commitment and became involved in two pro-bono units

As a paralegal working for a sole practitioner, I spent over three years running my own caseload and interacting with clients on a daily basis. I was responsible for all residential conveyancing within the firm, but also spent a large proportion of my time assisting the Principal in areas as varied as probate, land disputes, judicial review and immigration. The latter of these allowed me the first of several chances to represent clients at a tribunal and in court.Working full time in this position, whilst studying full time for the LLB gave me a number of invaluable insights. Not only did it allow me to tailor my degree to the areas of law I found most interesting, it allowed me to understand the practical application of academic theories. Of greatest importance in this changing climate though, was the insight it gave me into the pressures faced by the legal profession in light of the Jackson reforms.

As an airborne tactician, my employment relied upon my ability to quickly and accurately collate, examine and evaluate large amounts of complicated and disparate information. Crucially however this information, and my assessment of it, could only normally be relayed via radio, meaning oral advocacy formed the core of my job. When not flying, I held a number of other positions of responsibility within the squadron and wider air-station community. These included a heavy involvement with the pastoral care team predominately through running the £30 000 internet access system for those who lived on the base. It was during this employment that I began my undergraduate studies, leading to my graduation in 2009.

This part-time position allowed me to undertake basic training whilst studying for my A-Levels.

Bachelor Of Laws (Honours) (Open), Law, Upper Second Class (71%)

Fee-earning paralegal with Hatton Solicitors and Royal Naval Reservist while studying.

Bar Professional Training Course, Law, Very Competent (80%)

Assessed as Outstanding in Civil Advocacy, Family and Drafting. Marks of over 80% also awarded in Civil Litigation, Criminal Litigation.

Public Access Course

Civil And Commercial Mediator Training Programme, Mediation, Law

Certificate In Web Application Development, Computer Science (Web Applications)

Certificate incorporated HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, ASP, Coldfusion, MySQL as well as server farm design and managment.