Rosalee Dorfman Mohajer *

Rosalee Dorfman Mohajer is a junior barrister working from 30 Park Place Chambers, Cardiff and 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square Chambers, London.

Rosalee studied at Cardiff University in 2014-15 when undertaking the Bar Practitioner’s Training Course. She worked as a paralegal in Cardiff at Eversheds Sutherland LLP and CJCH Solicitors and as a County Court Advocate at Kearns Solicitors.

In 2016-2017, Rosalee was appointed as a Judicial Assistant in the Court of Appeal, where she drafted bench memos and assisted in civil and criminal appeals. During her pupillage at the London Borough of Lambeth in 2017-18, she was trained in the full range of local government work with a particular focus on housing.

Rosalee accepts instructions in all civil areas of Chambers’s work, with particular interest in housing law, public law, financial services, and professional discipline and regulatory law. In her varied civil practice, she has acted in:

• Housing cases in the County Court, representing both tenants and landlords
• S. 82 Environmental Protection Act hearings and trials in the Magistrate’s Court
• NMC regulatory proceedings
• Court of Protection proceedings
• The Grenfell Tower Inquiry, assisting with a disclosure review for the Cabinet Office
• Preliminary employment hearings and assisting the early stages of ET litigation, for example for HMPS in a complex discrimination and whistleblowing case.

Rosalee is currently instructed in the Dame Linda Dobbs Review, which is an investigation assessing whether information about the HBOS Reading fraud was properly investigated and reported by the Lloyds Banking Group.

She has been seconded to work for brief periods in the employment legal team at the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the housing team at Birmingham City Council.

In 2024, Rosalee was appointed to the Advocates Panel of Welsh Government Commercial Delivery (WGCD).

Rosalee co-authored two chapters on housing and planning law reform in British Legal Reform: An Agenda For Change (2024, Bristol University Press). Her recent publications concerned Covid-19 and legal immunity (Summer 2020, ARDL Quarterly Bulletin); the right to rent scheme (2019, Briefings); fairness in contract law (1, 2013, Leeds Journal of Law & Criminology) and the experiences of people with learning difficulties in the courtroom (6, 2012, Polis Journal).

Rosalee has conversational fluency in German and Spanish and is currently learning Welsh.

In her spare time, Rosalee enjoys training in taekwondo and spending time with her family in Wales.