Allegra is a member of the Government Legal Department Junior Junior Scheme.
Prior to joining the Bar, Allegra worked as a Caseworker at Advocate where she was involved with hundreds of cases across all areas of law, and she specialised in cases of domestic abuse involving vulnerable clients.
Experience & expertise
Allegra joined Chambers as a tenant upon successful completion of her pupillage in October 2024. During her pupillage, Allegra was supervised by Eloise Power, Alexander dos Santos, Frances McClenaghan, and Clare Hennessy.
INQUESTS
Allegra has acted on behalf of a range of Interested Persons, including families and NHS Trusts in pre-inquest review hearings and inquests.
“Allegra did a sterling job; she came to the Inquest super well prepared and did her very best to get across all our points and importantly the family’s questions to the Coroner. I found Allegra great to work with – she was on top of the evidence, up for a challenge, hugely empathetic with the family and a real team player. I very much look forward to working with her again.”
Instructing Solicitor
clinical negligence
Allegra is developing a busy practice in clinical negligence acting for both claimants and defendants in a variety of claims. She has worked on cases concerning informed consent, deep vein thrombosis, and Fatal Accidents Act cases. She has also appeared in the Family Court on behalf of a clinical negligence claimant who suffered cerebral palsy, where she successfully sought disclosure from family proceedings into the clinical negligence proceedings.
During her pupillage, Allegra was supervised by three clinical negligence specialists, Eloise Power, Clare Hennessy, and Frances McClenaghan. She was exposed to complex and high-value clinical negligence cases and developed her understanding of liability, settlement negotiations, mediations, and expert conferences as a result.
Allegra has experience drafting:
- Particulars of Claim
- Defences
- Counter-Schedules
- Skeleton arguments
- Advice on liability and quantum
- Agendas for expert meetings
- Applications for strike out/summary judgement
- Letters of Response
court of protection
Allegra is developing a practice in Court of Protection work, particularly on issues concerning mental capacity, best interests and mental health law. Recent instructions include acting for the Official Solicitor in a case involving highly sensitive safeguarding concerns.
Allegra’s previous experience as a Caseworker at Advocate, where she specialised in assisting vulnerable clients in the domestic abuse context, allows her to grapple effectively and sensitively with a range of issues and to handle lay clients with care.
POLICE
Allegra regularly appears on behalf of a range of police forces in the Magistrates’ Court, making civil applications under the Stalking Protection Act 2019, Sexual Offences Act 2003, and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. She has also been instructed by the Metropolitan Police in a bail variation appeal in the Crown Court, and in a disclosure application in the Family Court.
Allegra completed her pupillage under the supervision of police law specialists Alexander dos Santos, Frances McClenaghan, and Clare Hennessy. Allegra gained exposure to a wide range of police misconduct matters and she is happy to accept instructions for police misconduct hearings.
Allegra also contributes to our UK Police Law Blog. You can read her recent post, co-written with Chloe Hill, titled ‘Stalking: a review,’ here.
Prior to the Bar
Allegra worked as a Caseworker at Advocate where she was involved with hundreds of cases across all areas of law, and she specialised in cases of domestic abuse involving vulnerable applicants.
Allegra also worked as a Research Assistant in mental capacity law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and she was appointed as an Alumni Editor of the LSE Law Review.
Allegra has volunteered with various legal charities. On behalf of the Disability Law Service, she led a team to produce a policy paper on out-of-area inpatient psychiatric care. The paper was used by pressure group Rethink to launch their ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’ campaign.
She also volunteered with the Freedom Law Clinic, where she assisted with an appeal against a joint enterprise murder conviction.
Publications
- Allegra co-authored a chapter published in ‘Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, and Intimacy’ (Bristol University Press, 2024). The chapter, entitled ‘Sexual Capacity: Are There Questions the Law Should Not Ask?’ considers approaches to reforming the law on capacity as it relates to sexual decision-making.
- Allegra co-wrote an article which was published in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry in 2022, entitled ‘What place has “capacity” in the criminal law relating to sex post JB?’. The article considers the impact of the important case of A Local Authority v JB [2020] UKSC 52 on mental capacity and consent to sex.
- Allegra wrote an article on psychiatric illness and assisted dying which was published in the LSE Law Review in 2021. The article is entitled ‘Analysing the Issue of Psychiatric Assisted Dying from the Perspective of Parity: Does Parity Demand Access?’ and it is adapted from her undergraduate dissertation, for which she won the LSE Law Department Prize for Best Dissertation 2019/20.
Memberships
- Government Legal Department Junior Junior Scheme
- Court of Protection Bar Association
- Administrative Law Bar Association
- Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit)
- Inner Temple LGBTQ+ Society
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Laws (Hons), London School of Economics – First Class
- BVS, City University Law School
Scholarships and Awards
- Inner Temple Major Scholarship
- Inner Temple Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award
- City University Law School BVS Scholarship
- LSE Law Department Prize for Best Undergraduate Dissertation 2019/20
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further details of Allegra’s practice please contact a member of the clerking or client service team.
Registered Name: Allegra Angelica Enefer
Bar Council Membership No: 79564