One Pump Court welcomes three new pupil barristers
5 Nov 2024
William Heath is undertaking his first six training in housing and crime, supervised by Martin Hodgson and Rebecca Martin.
Prior to pupillage, William worked at Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors. He helped the bereaved, survivors and residents of the Grenfell Tower Fire to pursue justice and accountability through the public inquiry, including contributing to lines of questioning asked on their behalf of key local and central government witnesses.
William also worked on a variety of housing matters, in particular homelessness reviews and appeals, judicial review challenges to allocations schemes and decisions, and claims under the Equality Act 2010.
He then moved to the Civil Liberties and Human Rights department at the firm, where he assisted with a variety of inquests and civil claims against the police, prison authorities and other state bodies.
William has volunteered as a caseworker for the National Bargee Travellers Association, Legal Sector Workers United, and the Free Representation Unit.
Frank Bowmaker is undertaking his first six training in immigration and housing, supervised by Rudolph Spurling and Michael Marsh-Hyde.
Frank has over two years of experience as a Senior Caseworker at a legal aid firm. He was responsible for a caseload of judicial review claims spanning homelessness, community care and education, with a particular focus on asylum support. Many of his clients had care and support needs and/or were victims of ill-treatment, modern slavery and trafficking.
As a Senior Caseworker, Frank’s cases included R (NS) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWHC 2675 (Admin), a successful judicial review challenging the Home Office’s decision to accommodate a young person with complex mental health needs away from his support networks. He also worked on several unlawful detention claims and an inquest into the death of a disabled asylum seeker.
Frank is committed to improving access to justice. He was part of a pro bono team representing an Australian national arbitrarily detained in Iraq and drafted submissions which were adopted by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) in Opinion No. 70/2021. He has volunteered as a Tribunal Advocate for IPSEA, advising and representing children with special educational needs and disabilities in the FtT (SEND), and as a Legal Caseworker for Bail for Immigration Detainees.
Frank has a keen interest in international law. He competed in the Philip C. Jessup Moot and received awards at both national and international levels. He subsequently volunteered at REDRESS, where he was a contributing author to a publication on the prohibition of torture in common law Africa and prepared submissions to the United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR), among other things.
Prior to law, Frank worked for a range of non-governmental organisations including Amnesty International, Shelter and Scope. He managed partnerships with the public and private sectors, securing funding and other support for campaigns and frontline services.
Francesca Dickens is undertaking her first six training in immigration and family, supervised by David Chirico and Mary Hughes.
Prior to starting pupillage, Francesca acquired significant experience in human rights and immigration law through roles at Duncan Lewis Solicitors and Imran Khan & Partners, where she worked on complex asylum and family reunion cases and on the Grenfell Tower litigation.
Whilst working with a team of advocates in Lesvos, Francesca successfully obtained interim relief from the ECtHR for medically vulnerable clients. Her international experience also includes co-authoring an Expert Opinion for the CJEU on removal procedures and conducting human trafficking research for the United Nations.
She has a particular interest in Article 3 removal cases, detention cases and family reunification.
We wish them all the very best for their upcoming pupillage year.
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