Michelle Butler completed undergraduate degrees in politics and law at the University of Queensland.  She also obtained an LLM degree from Cambridge University specialising in international dispute settlement. 

Prior to being called to the Bar (2007), Michelle qualified as a solicitor in Australia (2002) and in England and Wales (2006).  In Australia, she practiced in commercial dispute resolution at Mallesons Stephen Jaques and undertook governmental advisory roles in women’s policy and international civil procedure.  The Law Council recognised her as the 2002 Australian Young Lawyer of the Year.

Michelle has practiced for the past three years at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia where she has assisted in representing several former heads of state and guerrilla leaders.  She was the rapporteur on a recent International Bar Association Human Rights Institute delegation investigating the independence of the legal profession and access to justice in Iran.

Michelle is interested in international law, human rights, immigration, criminal justice and arbitration.

Elizabeth Prochaska completed a degree in history at the University of Cambridge and a graduate fellowship in history at Yale University before undertaking the CPE and post-graduate LLB at City University. Last year, she completed the BCL degree at Oxford, where she specialised in public and human rights law, writing a dissertation on the state’s obligation to provide diplomatic protection.

In 2005, Elizabeth volunteered with the Louisiana Capital Assistance Centre in New Orleans, assisting clients on death row. She has worked on the cases of British residents imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay with Reprieve and the Oxford Pro Bono Unit. Elizabeth is a qualified FRU representative and has acted for claimants before employment tribunals in unfair dismissal and redundancy claims. She is currently a trustee of the mental health charity, Community Housing and Therapy.

Elizabeth is interested in employment, public and human rights law, particularly in relation to the protection of immigrants, prisoners and the mentally ill.