Beatrice has started pupillage with the Family group, under the supervision of Heather Popley, recently awarded Barrister of the Year at the 2025 Leicestershire Law Society Awards.
Across her pupillage Beatrice will experience the full breadth of Family practice, from matrimonial finance to private and public child work, drawing on both Heather Popley and No.5’s expertise in these areas.
Before beginning pupillage, Beatrice read Jurisprudence at Hertford College, Oxford, then undertook the Bar Training Course at Nottingham Trent. Beatrice won the Subject Prize for her Jurisprudence Finals results and was awarded an Academic Scholarship to study the BTC.
Beatrice was elected Secretary and then President of the Oxford Bar Society, organising networking events, moots and talks. She also mooted and entered essay competitions. Beatrice is the 2023 National Speed Mooting Champion; she won the 2025 International Women’s Day moot; and came runner-up in both the 2022 Oxford University Equality and Diversity Essay Competition and the 2023 Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal Essay Competition.
At Oxford, Beatrice was a Crankstart scholar, and worked with outreach teams at Hertford College and Oxford for the East Midlands to advocate for state school pupils to apply to Oxbridge. In her Bar Training Course year, Beatrice volunteered at Citizens’ Advice and mentored up-and-coming mooters.
In her spare time, Beatrice swims, bikes and runs, but refuses to do a triathlon – at least until her midlife crisis. Her sporting exploits have seen her crowned Seconds’ Varsity Champion at Modern Pentathlon (she can’t shoot, ride or fence) and attempt to compete in water polo against Loughborough University. Beatrice identifies as a certified film buff, cinephile-in-training, who loves movies for the behind-the-scenes dealings as much as the on-screen drama.
