Masters of the Bench

Veronique was educated at St Andrews where she read French and International relations before reading law at City University and being called to the Bar in 1991. She was awarded the Queen Mother’s Scholarship in 1989 and went on to become the Inn’s Bristow Scholar in 1992 which took her to work at the Legal Service of the EU Commission and on to the EU Court in Luxembourg before taking up her tenancy at Fountain Court in 1993.  Veronique took Silk in 2010 and in 2011 she moved to Keating where she specialises in energy and construction work.  Veronique was appointed a section 9(4) Deputy High Court Judge in 2017 and has sat regularly in the TCC.  Much of Veronique’s work is now as an international arbitrator dealing with dispute arising out of major infrastructure projects.

Veronique lives in Kent.  She is married to a retired barrister himself a member of the Inn.  She has two children and a love of gardening and Italy where she and her husband have a small olive farm.