Christina is an Associate in Mishcon Purpose. She is a litigator as well as an advisor.
As an advisor, she specialises in helping clients identify and incorporate increasingly material Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) factors into their strategies to create business and social value. Christina also advises on philanthropy, including the establishment and governance of charities in the UK, and overseas.
Christina has experience in a wide variety of commercial and strategic litigation and is part of the Purpose Litigation team. She has worked on complex high value fraud, banking and finance claims, and her work often engages human rights and public policy issues. She has acted for international NGOs in relation to complex matters involving the intersection of indigenous rights and conservation, as well as multilateral, cross border issues. She has extensive experience on judicial reviews involving complex environmental regulation and human rights issues. She has acted for local activist group Clear the Air in Havering regarding a toxic landfill in East London, for land managers in relation to wildfire risks and change to environmental regulation, and for a renewable energy generator on the UK's energy policy in the context of the war in Ukraine and energy crisis. She has acted on a claim against Facebook on behalf of the Rohingya people, and judicial reviews challenging the legality of denying Afghan judges who are fleeing the Taliban entry to the UK.
Christina is a legal mentor for SPITE (Sharing and Publishing Images to Embarrass), a pro bono project that advises victims of revenge porn, and a pro bono advisor for the Royal Courts of Justice Advice Bureau, which gives procedural advice to litigants in person in the High Court. Before joining Mishcon, Christina worked in the Magistrates' and Crown Courts, as well as in the High Court of Justice as clerk to the Insolvency and Companies Judges.