Merrow welcomes instructions to act individually or as a part of a team across all of Chambers’ practice areas. She has acted on behalf of local authorities, non-governmental organisations and private developers and has recently been ranked as a “rising star” in both Environment and Planning sectors (Legal 500 2022) and as an “up and coming” barrister in the London Planning Bar (Chambers and Partners, 2022). She is also ranked as one of the top rated planning juniors under 35 (Planning Magazine 2020, 2019).
Merrow studied Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge before going on to study law. She has a First Class law degree from City Law School, London, and a masters degree from Columbia Law School, New York. Prior to starting her pupillage, Merrow worked as a Foreign Law Clerk for Justice Edwin Cameron at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and she is a qualified attorney in the state of New York.
Merrow is happy to work on a pro bono basis in appropriate cases.