Professional practice

Following the completion of her pupillage in September 2025, Christina is developing a practice across the breadth of international commercial litigation and arbitration. She has experience in areas ranging from shipping and insurance, to banking, civil fraud, and tax.

Notable cases with which Christina assisted during her pupillage include:

  1. Republic of Mozambique v Privinvest Shipbuilding & Ors, in relation to successful applications by a sovereign state in the Commercial Court to enforce four arbitral awards.
  2. Bridgestone v Turkish Technic, a multi-jurisdictional aviation dispute, raising issues of contractual allocation and management of risk.
  3. Excalibur Almaz v Horie, involving $50m claims in fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with a space tourism business (Isle of Man).

Before coming to the Bar, Christina graduated with a prize-winning First Class Law degree from the University of Oxford. She stayed on at Oxford for her postgraduate studies with an academic scholarship from the Law Faculty, graduating from the BCL with Distinction. She completed her Bar Course with Distinction and was called to the Bar with the top scholarship from Gray’s Inn.

In addition to commercial law, Christina has a keen interest in revenue law. She formerly taught Tax Law at the University of Oxford. She was also a Senior Editor at LexisNexis, publishing content on high-profile commercial and tax disputes. Christina welcomes instructions on matters in the overlap between commerce and taxation.

Christina is a native Greek speaker.

 

Career

2025: Tenant at Essex Court Chambers

2024-2025: Pupillage at Essex Court Chambers

2024: Called to the Bar of England and Wales

2023-2024: Tutor of Tax Law, University of Oxford

2021-2022: Senior Editor, LexisNexis UK

Education

2023-2024: BVS, City University of London (Distinction).

2022-2023: BCL, Keble College Oxford (Distinction). Studied Conflict of Laws, Commercial Remedies, Business Taxation, Dissertation.

2017-2021: BA Jurisprudence, Jesus College Oxford (First Class, ranked 9th in the year overall, ranked 1st in Personal Property Law).

 

Awards

2023: Baroness Hale of Richmond Scholarship, Gray’s Inn

2023: Viscount Sankey Scholarship, Jesus College Oxford

2022: Oxford Law Faculty and 4 New Square Chambers Scholarship for the BCL

2021: Oxford Law Faculty Prize in Personal Property Law

2021: Principal’s Prize for Performance in Final Examinations, Jesus College Oxford

2021: Jesus College Oxford Prizes in Tax and EU Law

2020: Winner of the DCU National Moot, and of the Landmark Chambers Property Moot

Arbitration & related court applications

During her pupillage, Christina gained exposure to arbitration matters and related court proceedings, including:

  • Republic of Mozambique v Privinvest Shipbuilding & Ors, in relation to successful applications by a sovereign state in the Commercial Court to enforce four arbitral awards (assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Drafting an advice addressing, among other matters, the desirability of requiring that a claim be brought in London arbitration.
  • Assisting in connection with an arbitration under the LCIA rules.
Art & Cultural Property
  • Christina has particular expertise in the law of Personal Property, having been ranked first in her year at Oxford in the subject. She is well equipped to handle art and cultural property disputes involving the property torts and issues of title.
  • During her pupillage, Christina gained further experience in this area, drafting a pleading in connection with a conversion claim in respect of valuable cultural property.

 

Banking & financial services

During her pupillage, Christina assisted with several banking disputes, including:

  • A dispute between a major bank and one of its corporate clients, in respect of an alleged breach of a Quincecare duty, negligence, knowing receipt, dishonest assistance, and participation in fraudulent trading.
  • A €320m financing dispute, in an application to revoke anti-suit injunctions made in favour of the claimant banks.
Civil fraud & asset recovery

During her pupillage, Christina assisted with high-value fraud disputes, including:

  • Excalibur Almaz v Horie, involving $50m claims in fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with a space tourism business (Isle of Man) (with Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Fishman v Mangazeev, on claims brought in connection with a loan agreement and applications to vary a freezing order (with Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Christopher Shaw v Linear, on a claim brought against a broker, involving an alleged breach of trust, and resisting a proprietary asset preservation order (with Ciaran Keller KC).
Company & Insolvency

During her pupillage, Christina assisted with company and insolvency matters, including:

  • Interim relief in respect of a petition seeking the just and equitable winding-up of an alleged quasi-partnership company (Cayman Islands).
  • An application for anti-suit injunctions and final declaratory relief against a US-appointed receiver.
  • Advising on the merits of a threatened claim for unlawful expulsion from an LLP.
Conflict of Laws

Christina has particular expertise in the conflict of laws, holding a Distinction in the subject at postgraduate level on the BCL.

A majority of Christina’s work during pupillage engaged conflict of laws issues. Christina assisted with:

  • Jurisdiction and choice of law disputes.
      • Advising on the governing law of claims in fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in Excalibur Almaz v Horie (Isle of Man) (with Ciaran Keller KC).
      • Advising on forum and choice of law in connection with a multi-jurisdictional aviation dispute in Bridgestone v Turkish Technic (with Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Anti-suit injunctions.
      • Seeking ASIs and final declaratory relief against a US-appointed receiver.
      • Seeking to revoke ASIs made in favour of claimant banks in the context of a €320m financing dispute.
  • Enforcement of arbitral awards & judgments.
      • Pursuing successful applications by a sovereign state in the Commercial Court to enforce four arbitral awards in Republic of Mozambique v Privinvest Shipbuilding & Ors (with Ciaran Keller KC).
      • Pursuing successful joinder proceedings, against heirs to a judgment debt as a matter of Lebanese law in Republic of Mozambique v Clara Martinez Thedy de Safa & Ors (with Ciaran Keller KC).
Injunctions & Emergency Relief

During her pupillage, Christina observed and assisted with pursuing or resisting a variety of applications for urgent interim relief:

  • Prohibitory and mandatory relief.
      • Resisting an application for injunctive relief to prevent the appointment of an additional company director pending a winding up petition (Cayman Islands).
      • Resisting a threatened application for injunctive relief to prevent the cessation of operations of a major chemicals manufacturing plant.
  • Anti-suit injunctions.
      • Seeking ASIs and final declaratory relief against a US-appointed receiver.
      • Seeking to revoke ASIs made in favour of claimant banks in the context of a €320m financing dispute.
  • Asset preservation orders.
      • Seeking to vary a substantial freezing order in Fishman v Mangazeev (with Ciaran Keller KC).
      • Resisting proprietary asset preservation relief in a claim for breach of trust in Christopher Shaw v Linear (with Ciaran Keller KC).
Insurance & reinsurance

During her pupillage, Christina gained experience in marine insurance under the supervision of David Walsh KC:

  • Drafting a defence to an H&M claim concerning damage to the mast of a luxury yacht, involving issues of material non-disclosure.
  • Drafting an advice on policy liability for a marine casualty and/or wreck recovery, raising issues of fraud, unseaworthiness, and causation.
International trade & Transport

During her pupillage, Christina gained experience in a variety of international trade and transport matters, including:

  • Bridgestone v Turkish Technic, a multi-jurisdictional aviation dispute, raising issues of contractual allocation and management of risk (assisting Ciaran Keller KC).
  • Drafting an advice on the proper construction of a PBH aviation agreement.
  • Drafting advices in relation to a variety of dry shipping disputes involving time charters, voyage charters, and cargo claims
Revenue law (including VAT, IPT, duties & excise)

Christina has particular expertise and experience in tax. She has taught Tax Law at the University of Oxford, previously having focused on this area at both postgraduate and undergraduate level (with first class marks throughout).

Christina accepts instructions in tax tribunal disputes, as sole counsel or as part of a team.

Shipping, ship sale & shipbuilding

During her pupillage, Christina gained experience in a range of shipping matters, under the supervision of David Walsh KC and Helen Morton.

  • Drafting a skeleton argument on the proper construction of war risks and piracy risks clauses in a voyage charter.
  • Drafting defences to claims in respect of hire, port charges, and agency fees.
  • Drafting advices on:
      • A claim involving the shipment of dangerous cargo and liability under a time charter and under the Hague-Visby Rules.
      • Liability for demurrage under a voyage charter.
      • Liability in respect of stevedore negligence under a time charter.

Christina accepts instructions in maritime arbitrations under LMAA/LCIA rules, as sole counsel or as part of a team.