Laurie-Anne Power KC
  • An outstanding silk who is going from strength to strength. She has the command of any courtroom.

    Chambers UK 2026, Crime

  • She is a fierce advocate who is gentle and empathic with her clients. She is one of my first-choice silks.

    Chambers UK 2026, Crime

  • She stands out and makes an impression.

    Chambers UK 2026, Crime

  • Laurie-Anne is impressive on her feet and with her witness handling. Sensitive when necessary without losing power.

    Legal 500 2026, Crime

  • Power has fantastic preparation.

    Chambers UK 2026, Crime

  • Laurie-Anne is outstanding and an incredibly powerful advocate.

    Chambers UK 2025, Crime

  • She makes measured, sensible and tactical decisions while gaining the complete trust of her client.

    Chambers UK 2025, Crime

  • Laurie-Anne has a captivating style and knows how to make a jury pay attention.

    Chambers UK 2025, Crime

  • She gives good speeches and leaves a good impression in court.

    Chambers UK 2025, Crime

  • Her advocacy is second to none.

    Chambers UK 2025, Crime

  • She is fearless and great on her feet.

    Chambers UK 2025, Crime

  • In court, she is a superstar.

    Legal 500 2025, Crime

  •  Laurie-Anne is the model of a modern silk. She is simply the complete package with a unique ability to build a rapport with clients whilst giving down to earth advice.

    Legal 500 2025, Crime

  •  She is equally persuasive addressing a judge as a jury.

    Legal 500 2025, Crime

  •  Her advocacy style is highly persuasive.

    Chambers UK 2024, Crime

  • She's extremely good with a jury and also very good with the judge.

    Chambers UK 2024, Crime

  • Laurie-Anne is completely unflappable and has a graceful, disarming advocacy style.

    Chambers UK 2024, Crime

  • She's very much an up and coming silk because of her persuasive style with judges.

    Chambers UK 2024, Crime

  • She can break down complex legal principles to palatable form and is utterly charming.

    Legal 500 2024, Crime

  • Laurie-Anne is the epitome of the modern silk. She is fiercely intelligent, empathic, tactically astute and smooth in her presentation to judge and jury. 

    Legal 500 2024, Crime

  • Laurie-Anne is a first port of call for the most grave and serious offences.

    Chambers UK 2023, New Silks: Crime

  • Her recent appointment to KC is long overdue and well deserved.

    Chambers UK 2023, New Silks: Crime

  • A real hard worker. You can trust her on paper-heavy cases as she will know everything.

    Chambers UK 2022

  • An extremely able advocate who has a confident and clear grasp of law. Her judgement is excellent.

    Chambers UK 2021

  • Her advocacy is to the point and persuasive. She is a true jury advocate.

    Legal 500 2021

  • A fighter and a true defence advocate. She will fight for your client to the very end. She builds excellent relationships with your clients and they trust her wholeheartedly.

    Legal 500 2021

  •  Exceptionally hardworking, committed and experienced, and also a talented advocate.

    Legal 500 2018

  • Her aptitude in the most serious and complex of matters is phenomenal.

    Legal 500

Called 2000

Silk 2022

Kodekloud Video Download 2021er -

His message got pinned. And somewhere, someone with a shaky Wi-Fi signal smiled and clicked “Download.” Moral of the story: Sometimes the best tech hack is simple preparation—and a little offline grit.

Arjun embraced the label.

Here’s a short story inspired by the phrase — a fictional take on a determined learner's journey. Title: The 2021er Kodekloud Video Download 2021er

Arjun had a problem. It was late 2021, and his Kubernetes certification exam was in ten days. His internet connection, however, was stuck in 2005—erratic, slow, and prone to dying right when a trainer said, “And this is the most important part.”

Later, he posted in the Kodekloud Slack: “To the 2021ers—keep downloading. Keep learning. The internet may fail you, but your preparation won’t.” His message got pinned

Kodekloud had been his lifeline. Mumshad’s explanations, the labs, the animated diagrams—it all made sense. But streaming was no longer an option. He needed to download the videos.

The next two weeks, he studied offline on his commute, during lunch breaks, and in the flickering light of his childhood bedroom. He paused, replayed, and practiced on a local Minikube cluster. The downloaded videos weren't just files—they were his portable classroom, his armor against a flaky connection. Here’s a short story inspired by the phrase

That’s when he became a “2021er.”

He spent an entire Sunday selecting videos: Docker fundamentals, YAML deep dives, etcd backups, CNI plugins. One by one, the downloads queued up. But the third video— “Kodekloud Video Download 2021er – Kubernetes Scheduling Deep Dive” —kept failing at 47%. He tried different browsers, cleared caches, even emailed support (who replied within hours, fixing a server-side glitch). By midnight, the green checkmarks lined up like soldiers.

On exam day, he passed with flying colors.

In the Kodekloud community forums, they used the term half-jokingly: a 2021er was someone who joined the platform during the lockdown era, juggling job uncertainty, tech upskilling, and terrible home infrastructure. But more specifically, it had come to mean someone who downloaded the entire video library for offline study—legally, through the platform’s feature—and then became a legend for finishing the CKA course in three weeks while traveling on a sleeper train.