Rebecca Malczewski

Rebecca accepts instructions across Chambers’ principal areas of work.

Commended by judges for the assiduous attention she pays to her cases, Rebecca is instructed in a wide range of cases in the Crown, Youth and Magistrates’ Courts. She has particular experience of handling sensitive matters involving vulnerable defendants and witnesses. For example, she recently secured the acquittal of a care-experienced youth charged with domestic burglaries.

Rebecca regularly acts on behalf of regulators, including the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Social Work England.

She is also experienced in conducting substantial disclosure exercises, often under significant time pressure.

Rebecca provides clients with clear and practical written advice. She was instructed as a junior junior to provide extensive written advice following a ruling that a train operating company had unlawfully prosecuted more than 74,000 cases.

Having completed pupillage at 2 Hare Court, including under the supervision of Treasury Counsel, Rebecca has experience in assisting more senior members of chambers on legally complex and paper-heavy cases.

Whilst a pupil, Rebecca was awarded the Arden Scholarship, Gray’s Inn’s most prestigious award for pupils of exceptional merit, and the James Hunt Prize for Advocacy, awarded for the best advocacy performance out of 80 pupils.

Rebecca has valuable legal experience from the charitable sector, including as a Casework Volunteer for Advocate, an Advice and Information Volunteer for Liberty, a Helpline Volunteer on Refuge’s National Domestic Abuse Helpline, and as an Independent Custody Visitor for the Police and Crime Commissioner for Warwickshire.

She is also a Trustee of a Durham University college.