Eleni has particular expertise in European law, Public law, Human Rights law and VAT law. She has argued cases in the Court of Appeal, High Court and the Employment Appeal Tribunal in her own right, and has been led before the House of Lords. She also undertakes employment law and general commercial law work.
Eleni was appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘C’ panel for UK government work in 2003 and to the Attorney General's B Panel in February 2007. As well as acting for individuals and commercial organisations, Eleni regularly advises and appears for the Treasury Solicitor, HM Commissioners for Revenue and Customs and the Office of Fair Trading, as well as for public authorities. She was described as “very bright and really knows her stuff” by the Legal 500 (2007/8) in Commercial Litigation.
She was recently led by Antony White QC in Internet Broadcasting Corporation Ltd (T/A) NETTV, NETTV Hedge Funds LTD (formerly Marhedge TV Ltd) v MAR LLC (T/A MARHEDGE) (2009) 2 Lloyd’s Rep 295. As well as general commercial work, Eleni undertakes a great deal of indirect taxation work and is currently instructed in one of the largest MTIC VAT cases on behalf of the Appellants. In this field, she has appeared for appellants both in Honeyfone v HMRC and HMRC v Livewire and Olympia Technologies Ltd [2009] EWHC 15 (Ch), Lewison J, the first decision of the High Court on the concept of ‘knowledge and means of knowledge’. She is also co-author with Timothy Lyons QC, on a chapter on supplies outside the EC for Paul Lasok QC’s ‘Value Added Tax, Commentary and Analysis’, Sweet & Maxwell (July 2009).
In the field of public law, she has recently been involved in a number of cases brought by bus operators against the Department of Transport regarding concessionary fares, led by Jonathan Swift QC and Jessica Simor. She undertakes a variety of EU work ranging from issues of state aid to advising on EU law aspects of asset freezing in terrorist cases. Eleni aslo undertakes human rights work and was named 'Lawyer of the Week' in The Times 15 March 2005 for her work on the Shabina Begum case, regarding the school girl who was not permitted to wear the Islamic jilbab to school, acting with Cherie Booth QC.
Before coming to the bar, Eleni undertook postgraduate work at Oxford University (B.C.L. and D.Phil) and the European University Institute in Florence (L.L.M. in European and International Law). While pursuing her doctorate on legal interpretation, she also taught law at Oxford University.
Eleni became a member of Matrix in April 2004. She was a tenant at Hailsham Chambers for four years from 2000 and, before that, completed her pupillage at Brick Court Chambers. Eleni is a member of the editorial team of 'The European Advocate'. She is fluent in Greek (bilingual) and has some Italian and French.