Survive & Thrive | Aggrieved – Exploring the Relationship Between Grief and Working in Legal World

This will be a panel event during which the speakers, who work within the legal profession, will discuss their personal experiences of grief and how that interacts with their practices.

Host:

Georgia-Mae Chung: Pupil Barrister at Mountford Chambers (2021 Call), Consultant at the Sentencing Academy, and former Trainee Legal Adviser at the Thames and Stratford Magistrates’ Courts (2021-2023).

Panellists:

• Houzla Rawat: Barrister at Mountford Chambers (2001 Call) specialising in the areas of crime, business crime and fraud, criminal regulatory, and asset forfeiture and civil recovery.
• Isabel Bertschinger: Recent tenant at One Pump Court (2021 Call) whose practice involves inquests, housing, immigration, and actions against public authorities.
• Sarah Lucy Cooper: Barrister at Thomas More Chambers (1993 Call), practising in the areas of family, alternative dispute resolution, and arbitration. Sarah is also a recorder in the Central Family Court and a trained mediator and arbitrator.
• Sashi Schaffter: Unregistered barrister (2022 call) who holds a Human Rights LLM. She is based in Sri Lanka and has worked as a research analyst looking at the intersection between human rights and cyberspace. She is currently a General Management Apprentice at JXG, one of Sri Lanka’s leading conglomerates, continuing her family’s legacy.

The session will be followed by a drinks and nibbles reception.

Members and students from all four Inns of Court, non-members, and guests are welcome to attend this event.

Middle Temple members can book via the website. Non-members can book by calling the Treasury Department at 020 7427 4800 between the hours of 10:00 and 16:00.

To read more about the Inn's Survive & Thrive programme, please click here.

Members and students from all four Inns of Court, non-members, and guests.

Non-alchoholic beverages will be available.

Click here to see details of the QS Requirements and how to be credited with the QS for this session

Learning Aims:

After this session, students should be able to:

• Recognise the experience of grief and how it can impact barristers’ practices
• Describe ways in which barristers can manage grief in their professional life

Links to the Professional Statement, wider workings of the Bar, administration of justice or a public interest matter

The QS will align with these elements of the Professional Statement:

• 4.2 / 4.4

Click here to view the BSB's Professional Statement

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