Erica has practiced exclusively in the law of costs since 2003, being a solicitor and Cost Lawyer prior to being called to the Bar. She qualified as a mediator in 2015.
Her background has provided a commercial awareness that enables her to adopt a pragmatic and flexible approach that takes into account wider issues.
She has a broad practice appearing for both paying and receiving parties, with particular emphasis on clinical negligence matters, commercial litigation and Solicitor Act Assessments. She regularly appears before Regional Cost Judges and in the SCCO and is frequently instructed on appeal up to High Court level.
She has mediated numerous costs claims varying from clinical negligence claims to inheritance disputes and commercial claims.
She lectures for MBL seminars on Solicitor Act Assessments.
She is a member of the Management Board of the Education Executive Association of Cost Lawyers Training.
She has been consistently recommended in Chambers and Partners (Band 2) since 2014 and Legal 500 since 2019 (Band 1).
Other The Bar Panel Members
Andrew McGee
Andrew McGee has been a member of the Kings Chambers Costs Team since 2004, with extensive experience in over 100 Detailed Assessments and as a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Benjamin Williams QC
Benjamin Williams QC is ranked as a first-tier costs silk by both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500, having appeared in most of the leading costs cases of the last 20 years.
Craig Ralph
Craig Ralph is a true costs specialist who has practised exclusively in all aspects of costs and litigation funding since 2005, with expertise in demand in contentious and non-contentious costs issues.
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