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Samantha Stark

2005

Samantha studied her LL.B (HONS) Bar Exempting degree at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a unique four-year course incorporating the elements of the Bar Vocational Course within the undergraduate degree. Samantha was thus called to the Bar in 2005.

Prior to commencing pupillage, Samantha worked at two high-street criminal law firms as a paralegal, and also qualified as a Police Station Representative. She therefore gained useful experience of criminal law practice, and has a thorough understanding of the criminal justice system and how it operates from the Police Station onwards.

In 2008-2009, Samantha read for her LLM in Human Rights Law at Nottingham University, during which she studied, inter alia, Refugee Law, International Mental Health Law, International Criminal Law and Public International Law. Her dissertation focussed on the issue of judicial deference vs. judicial activism in national security jurisprudence, and the effect this has on the effective protection of human rights in the UK.

In 2009-2010, Samantha undertook an internship at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, and assisted in the writing of a publication on Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law, as well as attending several debates at the United Nations.

Samantha commenced pupillage in April 2010, and began practicing in October 2010.