Call: 2019
Direct access
Jessica is a barrister with core specialisms in public inquiries, civil and family law. She is qualified to accept instructions under the Public Access scheme.
Jessica has extensive public inquiry experience, having been instructed continuously since 2022 by both Core Participants and Counsel to the Inquiry on a number of inquiries. Alongside her inquiry work, Jessica appears regularly in the County, Crown, Magistrates’ Courts and High Court across a range of criminal, regulatory and general civil proceedings.
Her civil practice often has family law crossover; she has experience in seeking disclosure from family proceedings on behalf of the police for concurrent criminal investigations. Jessica’s regular civil work for the police also extends to applications for behavioural orders involving stalking, harassment, domestic abuse and sexual harm.
Before joining chambers, Jessica worked in the family department at Mishcon de Reya LLP assisting on complex private children and high value financial remedy cases. She now has a broad family law practice across private children and Family Law Act proceedings, with cases that often involve an element of domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour.
Jessica accepts instructions in all areas of public, family and civil law.
Inquiries
- Instructed by Counsel to the Inquiry for the Lampard Inquiry (led by Nicholas Griffin KC) as part of the investigations team looking into the deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex between 2000 and 2023.
- Acts for the Department of Health and Social Care in the Nottingham Inquiry into the devastating Nottingham attacks in June 2023 (led by Fiona Scolding KC) preparing both the corporate and expert Rule 9 evidence.
- Acts for the Department of Health and Social Care in the COVID-19 Inquiry (led by Sam Stein KC), preparing both the corporate evidence and individual Rule 9 responses from peers, ministers and expert witnesses across all modules.
Family
- Regularly instructed in private children cases through complex fact-finding and contested final hearings that include elements of parental alienation, implacable hostility, domestic abuse and coercive control.
- Experienced in Family Law Act proceedings including contested final hearings for non-molestation and occupation orders.
- Instructed (including directly) in enforcement proceedings.
Road Transport
- Regularly accepts instructions on taxi/private hire licencing appeals to the Crown Court.
- Appears for both drivers and the DVSA in driving prosecutions.
Civil
- Accepts regular instructions from Kent Police in applications and appeals in relation to the Police Property Act 1897, Proceeds of Crime Act 2022, the Dogs Act 1871 and civil behavioural orders involving stalking, harassment, domestic abuse and sexual harm.
- Regularly appears in the County Court in infant settlement hearings, claims for possession and other landlord and tenant disputes.
Awards
Jules Thorn Scholarship (2018) from The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
Memberships
- Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
- Family Law Bar Association
Education
- Bar Professional Training Course, City Law School (Very Competent)
- LLB (Hons), Queen Mary University (First Class)
Awards
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Jessica Foxwell joins Chambers following successful completion of pupillage
Chambers is pleased to welcome Jessica Foxwell who joins us following the successful completion of her pupillage. During her pupillage year, Jessica gained experience...
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