Eloise Pollard

Senior Associate
London
About
Eloise Pollard is an Associate in DLA Piper’s public law team. She has experience working with both public and private sector clients on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious matters.

Eloise has acted for both claimants and defendants in judicial review proceedings and has experience advising public bodies in relation to defensible decision-making, good governance, exercise of statutory functions, drafting legislation, implementing legal reforms and complying with the Public Sector Equality Duty.
Areas of FocusRegulatory and Government AffairsLitigation, Arbitration and InvestigationsFinancial ServicesConsumer Goods, Food and RetailHealthcareInfrastructure, Construction and TransportIndustrialsEnergy and Natural ResourcesMedia Sports and Entertainment
Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Acting for public sector bodies in high profile public inquiries including the COVID-19 Inquiry
  • Advising a private company, which will become wholly owned by the government, on its transition from a private body to a public corporation (with statutory functions)
  • Advising multiple commercial clients on potential public law challenges in relation to tax
  • Advising a private equity investor in relation to the public law risk associated with GBP 2 billion investment
  • Advising a public sector body on public law risks in relation to a significant digital transformation project
  • Advising a national charity on the results of an investigation into financial impropriety (including its regulatory and reporting obligations to the Charity Commission)
  • Acting for a commercial client looking to challenge a public procurement in the healthcare sector
  • Advising a private members club on its response to complaints and threats of legal action in respect of alleged breaches of the Equality Act, safeguarding and childcare law, special educational needs provisions and data protection 
  • Acting for a number and range of government bodies to defend public procurement
  • Acting for a statutory regulator in ~35 appeals brought in the Upper Tribunal in the connection with the exercising of its statutory functions
Education
  • University of Law, LPC, 2018
  • University of California Los Angeles, LLM, 2017
  • University of Bristol, LLB, 2014

Prior Experience

  • 2018 – 2020 - Training Contract at a London based city firm (seats in Public and Regulatory, Immigration, Employment and Charity)
  • 2020 – 2021 - Assistant Legal Counsel at a non-departmental public body in the education sector
  • 2021 – 2023 - In-house solicitor at a statutory regulator

Additional News

Eloise’s recent pro bono work includes providing advice and training to LGBTQ+ and disability charities.

Eloise is involved with DLA’s Pathways to Law scheme and has been actively involved in similar schemes in her previous roles. 

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Member of the Public Law Solicitors Association
  • Associate Member of the Administrative Law Bar Association
  • Member of the Procurement Lawyers’ Association
  • Member of the Young Public Lawyers Group
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Phone

+44 20 7796 6309
(Work, London)
+44 7554 923705
(Mobile, London)