Meet our Associate Tenants and Academics - Saccucci

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Meet our Associate Tenants and Academics

1 Associate Tenants and Academics

Area of specialism: HUMAN RIGHTS

PROFESSOR LEDI BIANKU – Associate Tenant

CONTACT: [email protected]

Ledi Bianku is a former judge at the European Court of Human Rights and an Associate Professor at the University of Strasbourg, France. He is a former member of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission for Democracy through Law.

In 2007 he was elected as a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Albania. As a member of the Court, he worked on several important cases related to refugee crises in Europe, the consequences of global terrorism, the independence of the judiciary, the human rights consequences of major historical events such as the invasion of Iraq and the 2016 coup in Turkey, the right to privacy in electronic communications, etc. He was a member of the judicial panels in Strasbourg in seminal cases, such as MSS v. Belgium and Greece, Gafgen v. Germany, Al Skeini v. the United Kingdom, Othman (Abu Qatada) v. the United Kingdom, Austin v. the United Kingdom, Barbulescu v. Romania, etc.

Ledi was elected vice President of the Ist Section of the ECHR in 2016. At the Court he was a member of the EU law group since 2008, and he chaired the Judicial Reflection Group (2015-2019) and the Working Group on the Reform of the Grand Chamber (2016-2018).

He has represented the Strasbourg Court in meetings with delegations of the Court of Justice of the European Union, International Court of Justice and several national jurisdictions such as UK Supreme Court, French Constitutional Council, German Federal Constitutional Court, Italian Court of Cassation, Italian Council of State, etc.

MARCUS GILBERT SC - Associate Tenant


Gilbert Marcus is a Senior Counsel at the Johannes Bar with a substantial practice in constitutional and administrative law. He has the unusual experience of having conducted a human rights practice both under the repressive apartheid legal order as well as under the new democratic dispensation in South Africa since 1994.

Under apartheid, he spent 8 years practising public interest law at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies. He did extensive work fighting political censorship and defending anti-apartheid activists charged with offences against state security, including treason. With the advent of constitutional democracy, Gilbert has been involved in many of the major cases in the Constitutional Court. These include a successful challenge to the constitutionality of the death penalty; the striking-down of laws that criminalised gay sexual relations; compelling the government to provide anti-retroviral drugs to pregnant

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mothers living with HIV and striking-down the laws which prohibited the formation of trade unions in the Defence Force. He has appeared in the Constitutional Court in approximately 100 cases. In the field of administrative law, he has argued the leading case in the Constitutional Court concerning the review of public procurement decisions and has argued many cases challenging regulatory approvals or disapprovals in diverse areas such as mining and telecommunications. He has also appeared in courts in neighbouring territories, including Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland. He was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 1999.

Gilbert is a visiting professor of law at the University of the Witwatersrand. He has written many academic articles and co-authored books on constitutional law and public interest litigation.

MADELEINE COLVIN (Call: 1971) – Associate Tenant


Human rights lawyer with extensive experience of law reform and policy formation whilst working for key non-governmental organisations. Skilled advocate and decision-maker with a high level of professional achievement including practice as a barrister and now as a judicial appointee and human rights consultant. Wide knowledge of international human rights instruments (including social and economic rights) and a detailed understanding of European Union institutions, its laws and policies.

Experienced in working on a range of legal issues including being actively involved in the public debates and parliamentary proceedings leading to the UK's Human Rights Act 1998 and its subsequent implementation.

MELANIE GINGELL (Call: 1988) – Associate Tenant


Melanie practiced at the bar for 20 years specialising in criminal law and later family law. She now works in international human rights, teaching and researching.

She has conducted research projects and trial observations in Europe, Middle East and South America and is on the advisory board of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights.

DAVID LAMMY – Associate Tenant


Born in Tottenham, north London, David was awarded a choral scholarship to The King’s School, a state boarding school in Peterborough. David graduated with a Bachelors of Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies, before becoming the first Black Briton to attend Harvard Law School, where he graduated with a Master of Law degree in 1997. He then practiced as a barrister in England and the United States.




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In 2000, aged 27, David became the then youngest Member of Parliament, representing Tottenham. Since entering Parliament, he served for nine years as a Minister in the Blair and Brown governments, in several departments including the Department of Constitutional Affairs, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills.

As an opposition backbencher, David gained reputation for being one of Parliament’s most successful campaigning MPs. Often involved in high profile cases affecting his constituents- Victoria Climbie, Baby P and Mark Duggan. In January 2016, the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, asked David to lead an independent review into the treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in the criminal justice system. The Lammy Review was published in September 2017, and many of its recommendations continue to guide government policy to this day.

David led the campaign to guarantee the right of Commonwealth nationals impacted by the Windrush scandal, prompting the government to establish the Windrush Lessons Learned Review and compensation scheme. He has also been at the forefront of the struggle for justice for families impacted by the Grenfell Tower fire, helping to secure an independent inquiry, as well as compensation scheme for victims. In 2018, David was awarded Politician of The Year by The Political Studies Association and GQ Magazine, as well as Campaigner of The Year by The Spectator magazine.

In April 2020, David was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor.

David is the author of two books: ‘Out of the Ashes’ (2011), which examines the causes of the 2011 London riots, as well as ‘Tribes: How Our Need to Belong Can Make or Break Society’ (2020) which explores solutions to the tribalism that has gripped politics in the 21st century. David is a member of the Privy Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of East London, and is a fellow of the University of Birckbeck, St John’s College Durham and City Lit.

MARK MULLER QC (Call: 1991 Silk: 2006) – Associate Tenant


Mark Muller Stuart QC is a senior advocate associated with Doughty Street Chambers in London and the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh, where he specialises in public international law, criminal, terrorism and human rights related litigation. Mark was appointed Queen’s Counsel in October 2006. He is currently co-head of Rule of Law for the International Committee of the Bar Council of England and Wales, a member of the Attorney General's International Committee, and was formerly Chairman of the Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) between 2006-12.

Additionally, Mark regularly advises numerous international bodies on humanitarian and conflict resolution related issues. Since 2005 he has acted as a Senior Advisor to the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Geneva), Beyond Conflict (Boston) and previously for Inter Mediate (London). Mark is also executive director of Beyond Borders, a Scottish not for profit organization dedicated to fostering peace and international exchange through




cultural dialogue and a co-founding director of the Delfina Arts Foundation. He also has directorial responsibility for the MENA Rule of Law Programme of the John Smith Memorial Trust funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

PROFESSOR ANDREA SACCUCCI (Call: 1988 Silk: 2013) – Associate Tenant


Professor Andrea Saccucci is an internationally acknowledged practitioner and academic with special expertise in human rights, public international law, EU law, extradition, immigration law, and international arbitrations. He qualified as an attorney in Italy in 2001 where he was called to the Rome Bar in 2002. As from 2013, he is qualified to appear before higher jurisdictions (as the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court and the Council of State).

Andrea Saccucci’s records in human rights litigation are particularly remarkable. He has been instructed in hundreds of cases before national and international judicial and quasi-judicial bodies in many different areas (such as extradition, fair trial in civil and criminal proceedings, detainees’ rights, refugee rights, property rights, immigration law and statelessness, discrimination, freedom of expression and association, etc.).

In his capacity as a human rights lawyer with an established experience in the field of criminal matters, Andrea Saccucci has been involved in some among the most high-profile and politically sensitive judicial cases brought before European Courts or other international human rights bodies over the last decade.

PROFESSOR GILLIAN TRIGGS (Call: 1968 (Supreme Court of Victoria)) – Associate Tenant

CONTACT: [email protected] Gillian is an Honorary Member of Seven Wentworth Chambers, Sydney, NSW.

Professor Triggs is a former Director of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law, Joint General Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Challis Professor of International law, University of Sydney. She was most recently President of the Australian Human Rights Commission (2012-17). She is the author of many texts and papers including:

International Law; Contemporary principles and Practices, (2nd Ed. 2011) Lexis Nexis

Major areas of practice:

• Territorial boundaries, continental shelf delimitation

• Human Rights

• Jurisdiction and extraterritoriality

• Immunity




Gillian has been appointed a UN Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant High Commissioner for Protection with UNHCR. As an International civil servant, Gillian is no longer doing advice work but hopes to continue with legal practice when her term at the UN ends in 3 years.

SIR KEIR STARMER KCB, QC (Call: 1987 Silk: 2002) – Associate Tenant - Former Member


After studying law at Leeds University (LLB) and Oxford University (BCL), Keir Starmer was called to the Bar in 1987 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 2002. He has conducted cases at the highest level in England and Wales, including over 30 cases in the House of Lords (before it became the Supreme Court) and before the Privy Council. He has also conducted cases all over the world, including in international courts such as the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Right, the Caribbean Court of Justice and the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights.

He was named as QC of the Year in the field of human rights and public law in 2007 by the Chambers & Partners Directory and in 2005 he won the Bar Council's Sydney Elland Goldsmith award for his outstanding contribution to pro bono work in challenging the death penalty throughout the Caribbean and Africa.

Keir has also written several leading textbooks, including the Three Pillars of Liberty: Political Rights and Freedoms in the UK (1996), European Human Rights Law (1999), Criminal Justice, Police Powers and Human Rights (2001) and the Human Rights Manual and Sourcebook for Africa (2005).

From 2003-2008, Keir Starmer was the human rights advisor to the Policing Board in Northern Ireland. In that capacity he worked with the Policing Board to ensure that the Police Service of Northern Ireland fully complied with its obligations under the Human Rights Act 1998.

He was Director of Public Prosecutions and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008-2013.

As DPP, Keir was responsible for all criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. Among the complex and sensitive cases arising during his term of office were the cases about assisted suicide leading to the DPP's guidelines on Assisted Suicide which were issued in February 2010; the various cases in which members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords were charged with criminal offences; the successful retrial in the Stephen Lawrence case; and several so-called street grooming cases.

When the CPS and the Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office merged in 2010, Keir was appointed as the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions, a post he held until October 2013. Within the combined prosecution service, the Fraud Division (fiscal and non-fiscal), the Organised Crime Division and the Counter-Terrorism Division reported to Keir. He is also a member of the International Association of Prosecutors.



Keir was a member of the Sentencing Guidelines Council from 2008-2010; and a member of the Sentencing Council from 2010-2013.

Keir is an Honorary Fellow at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University and holds honorary doctorate degrees from Leeds University, Essex University, the University of East London and the London School of Economics.

FRANÇOIS ZIMERAY (Call: 1987) – Associate Tenant


François Zimeray is an international lawyer, formerly serving as the French Human Rights Ambassador-at-large and as a Member of the European Parliament. He joined Doughty Street Chambers as an Associate Tenant in October 2018.

Called to the Paris Bar in 1987, François has extensive experience dealing with complex international legal challenges, for individuals, corporations and governments. Previously, François was a partner in a leading Paris law firm where he advised and assisted corporations on transnational commercial disputes both in litigation and arbitration.

As a member of the European Parliament, he served on the Legal Affairs Committee and contributed to the preparatory works for the European Charter of Fundamental Rights (1999-2004) and the creation of a European mutual assistance in criminal matters.

He later became the highest-ranking French Human Rights diplomat (2008-2013) and represented his country for Human Rights issues before multilateral institutions, including during the Universal Periodic Review and other UN sessions.

Returning to private practice in 2018, Ambassador Zimeray now combines his skills in international law with his diplomatic experience, advising private and public sector clients on complex international disputes. His areas of expertise include international human rights, business and human rights, arbitration and transnational crimes.

SADAKAT KADRI (Call: 1989) – Associate Tenant - Former Member


Sadakat Kadri spent a decade as a full-time practitioner at Doughty Street, specialising in criminal, constitutional and international law. He has considerable experience as a Crown Court advocate and has represented appellants at all levels of the UK judicial system, including several death row prisoners before the Privy Council. On the international plane, he has advised governments and citizens on matters ranging from internet regulation to the constitutionality of a coup d'état, and he has participated in appeals in Brunei, Malawi and Fiji. He is also familiar with US legal systems, having studied at Harvard and qualified for the New York Bar, and he has.worked at the American Civil Liberties Union and acted for a number of US clients.

Sadakat became an associate tenant in order to concentrate on his writing. He regularly contributes to various publications including the London Review of Books, and he is the author of two law-related works: The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson (HarperCollins UK and Random House US) and Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through




Shari'a Law (Random House UK and Farrar Straus & Giroux US). He has spoken about both books at academic institutions and literary festivals in many parts of the world.

Sadakat combines his legal and literary interests in work he does for international human rights organisations. He has observed court proceedings in the Middle East on behalf of the Geneva-based International Parliamentary Union, and he went to Syria in March 2011 as part of a delegation of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI). The report that he helped write, which formed the basis for Syria's suspension from the International Bar Association in the summer of 2012, is viewable through this link. In August 2012, he travelled to Myanmar (Burma) as the rapporteur on IBAHRI's first ever mission to that country. The report he compiled, officially launched at the Law Society in January 2013, can be found online here.

MARTHA SPURRIER (Call: 2010) – Associate Tenant - Former Member


Martha is a human rights lawyer and campaigner. She is the Director of the human rights NGO, Liberty.

As a barrister, Martha specialised in public law and civil claims against public authorities, with a particular focus on access to justice, children and women’s rights, and the rights of prisoners and immigration detainees. She has worked on cases at all levels, including before the Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. Martha’s strategic litigation work included challenges to the legal aid cuts and to the treatment of mentally ill people in detention. She has acted for organisations such as the Howard League for Penal Reform, Mind, Medical Justice, Just for Kids Law and Bail for Immigration Detainees in test cases brought to change law and policy.

Martha was shortlisted for the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year award in 2014 and 2016 and she is ranked in Chambers and Partners 2016, where she is described as displaying "a tenacity and assertiveness far beyond her years". Before joining Liberty Martha was also a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission panel of specialist counsel.

Martha is the author of Freedom to Write: A User's Guide (English PEN: 2012), a contributing editor of Rights and Freedoms (Halsbury’s Laws: 2013), a contributor to Disabled Children (Legal Action Group: 2016) and a contributor to the forthcoming Police Misconduct (Legal Action Group). From 2009 - 2014 Martha was the assistant editor of the European Human Rights Law Review and she regularly writes for Legal Action, the Solicitors’ Journal, INQUEST magazine and the European Human Rights Law Review. She is a founding member of the Mental Health in Detention Action Group, an advisory board member of Halsbury's Laws and a trustee of Medical Justice and the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law.

In 2012 Martha was judicial assistant to Lord Justice Maurice Kay, Vice-President of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal. She then joined the mental health charity Mind as in-house counsel, before moving to the Public Law Project, where she ran a unique access to justice project designed to challenge the worst excesses of the legal aid cuts.



PAUL HARVEY (Call: 2013) – Associate Tenant - Former Pupil


Paul Harvey has been a lawyer in the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights since 2005. He is currently on sabbatical leave from the Court. At the Court, he has worked primarily on cases against the United Kingdom involving counter-terrorism, criminal procedure and sentencing, extradition, immigration and mental health.

Requests for interim measures under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court, particularly in immigration and extradition cases, are also a particular area of expertise, since between 2008 and 2012 Paul coordinated the taskforce dealing with such requests filed against the United Kingdom.

He is also a contributing author to Harris, O’Boyle and Warbrick, Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (third edition forthcoming).

He also participates regularly in Council of Europe/UNHCR training seminars throughout Europe, particularly in the former Soviet Union and principally in the fields of immigration and criminal procedure (including extradition).

Paul speaks French, Italian and Spanish. Unfortunately, other languages have thus far eluded him.

DR SHIRIN EBADI – Academic Panel


Dr Shirin Ebadi joined Doughty Street's panel of Academic Experts in September 2017.

She was the first female Peace Prize Laureate from the Islamic World (2003). She was Iran’s first female judge, served as president of the city court of Tehran from 1975 to 1979 and was the first Iranian woman to achieve Chief Justice status. After opening a legal practice, she began defending people who were being persecuted by the authorities. In the year 2000 she was imprisoned herself for having criticized her country's hierocracy. In addition to being an internationally-recognized advocate of human rights, she has also established many non-governmental organizations in Iran, including the Million Signatures Campaign, a campaign demanding an end to legal discrimination against women in Iranian law. Dr Ebadi has a doctorate in Law from Tehran University, and is a university professor. She has published over 70 articles and 13 books dedicated to various aspects of human rights, some of which have been published by UNICEF. In 2004, she was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world. In January 2006, along with sister Laureate Jody Williams, Dr Ebadi took the lead in establishing the Nobel Women’s Initiative.




PROFESSOR DAVID KINLEY – Academic Panel


Professor David Kinley holds the Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Sydney. A former Senior Fulbright Scholar, he specializes in relations between the global economy and human rights. He has worked in this field for more than 25 years including with a wide range of international organizations such as the UN, the World Bank, and the EU, as well as government agencies, law firms, multinational corporations and NGOs in Australia, Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, Europe and North America. His recent books include: Civilising Globalisation: Human Rights and the Global Economy (2009), Principled Engagement: Promoting Human Rights in Repressive States (2013, with Morten Pedersen), The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2014, with Ben Saul and Jacqui Mowbray) which won the American Society of International Law Book Prize in 2015, and Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights (2018) which won the Axiom International Business Book Award in 2020. His latest book, Liberty is not License: Why Freedom is Everybody’s Responsibility is due to be published in 2021. He is currently working on another book narrating the extraordinary story behind the iconic Cape v Lubbe case on corporate liability in the House of Lords in 2000. He also has a TEDx video: How Much Do Banks Owe Us? Born and raised in Northern Ireland, he obtained degrees in business, philosophy, law and human rights at Sheffield and Cambridge Universities before moving to Australia in 1990.

PROFESSOR FRANCESCA KLUG OBE - Academic Panel


Professor Francesca Klug OBE is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and a member of the Centre's Advisory Board. She was Director of the Human Rights Futures Project from 2001-2015, which is now housed at the British Institute of Human Rights, and was also a member of the Advisory Board of LSE's Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion.

Francesca was formerly the Chair of Freedom from Torture and is a former Chair and Trustee of the British Institute of Human Rights. She is an Academic Expert at Doughty Street Chambers and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Political Quarterly. Francesca is a member of the Advisory Board of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and of the human rights NGO, Renee Cassin.She was a Commissioner on the independent Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life, reporting at the end of 2015, and was a Specialist Adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, carrying out a published review of their working practices in 2006. She was also a member of the small Bill of Rights and Responsibilities Reference Group at the Ministry of Justice between 2007-09. From 2006-09 Francesca was a Commissioner on the statutory Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) where she was the Lead Commissioner on the EHRC’s Human Rights Inquiry published in 2009. She was formerly a member of the EHRC Steering Group and the EHRC Task Force which advised on the establishment of the Commission and worked as an independent academic advisor to ministers and officials on the Equality Act 2006.


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PROFESSOR JUAN E. MÉNDEZ - Academic Panel


Juan E. Méndez is Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence at the Washington College of Law, The American University and the author – with Marjory Wentworth – of Taking a Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights (New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). Beginning Nov. 1, 2010 and until October 31, 2016, he served as the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. In the summer of 2009 he was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in New York. Between 2004 and 2009 he was President of the International Center for Transitional Justice. Starting in August 2004 and until March 31, 2007, he was also concurrently the Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the UN on the Prevention of Genocide. In 2010 and 2011 he was Co-Chair of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. A native of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, Mr. Méndez has dedicated his legal career to the defense of human rights and has a long and distinguished record of advocacy throughout the Americas.

For 15 years, he worked with Human Rights Watch, concentrating his efforts on human rights issues in the western hemisphere, and helping to build the organization into one of the most widely respected in the world.

RACHEL MURRAY- Academic Panel


Rachel Murray is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Bristol and one of the founders and now Director of its Human Rights Implementation Centre.

Rachel undertakes regular work on the African human rights system, implementation of human rights law, OPCAT and torture prevention, among other areas. She has written widely in this area (e.g. Implementation of the Findings of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, with Debbie Long, Cambridge University Press, 2015; The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture, OUP, with Steinerte, Evans and Hallo de Wolf), and articles in leading legal human rights journals.

She advises national, regional and international organisations as well as governments and individuals on human rights law. She has held a number of grants, including a major grant from the ESRC on implementation which tracked decisions from the regional and UN treaty bodies to examine the extent to which the States have complied with them (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/hrlip/ ).

She is the Vice Chair of the Board of the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa, a Fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and a magistrate.



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PRINCE ZEID RA'AD AL HUSSEIN - Academic Panel

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Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is the former UN human rights chief; recognized world-wide as a leading and outspoken defender and promoter of universal human rights – awarded the Stockholm prize for human rights in 2015 and the Tulip prize in 2018.

With a professional background as a practitioner – a former senior diplomat representing his country Jordan – his knowledge is steeped in the global security environment, stemming from over twenty years of direct exposure to many of the world's most turbulent crises and serious security threats. He served as president of the UN Security Council (in January 2014) and in 2002 was elected the first president of the governing body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) -- guiding the court's growth in its first three years (9/2002-9/2005). He chaired some of the most complex legal negotiations associated with the court's statute, in particular those relating to the elements of crimes (1999-2000) and the crime of aggression (the "supreme international crime") from 2009-2010. He also led the international community's efforts in countering the threat of nuclear materials being trafficked and then used maliciously by terrorists (2010-2014). And he led the UN's efforts at eliminating sexual exploitation and abuse in UN peacekeeping (2004-2007).

He was twice served as Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations (in New York) and once as Jordan’s ambassador to the United States (2007-2010). He also represented Jordan twice before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). From 1994-1996, he was a UN civilian peacekeeper with UNPROFOR.

JOHN WADHAM - Associate


John Wadham - Solicitor, consultant and independent expert on equality and human rights for the Council of Europe, the United Nations, and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

He is currently the Human Rights Advisor to the Northern Ireland Policing Board, the Chair of the UK’s National Preventive Mechanism (overseeing the systems for preventing ill-treatment in detention) and a member of the Ministerial Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody.

Member of the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of England and Wales, Associate Member Doughty Street Chambers, Visiting Fellow at Bristol University and Visiting Senior Research Fellow Kings College London

Previously - the Executive Director of INTERIGHTS (the Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights). For six years he was General Counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission and for four years the Deputy Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Between 1995 and 2003 he was the Director of Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties).




He studied at the College of Law, Surrey University and the London School of Economics. He is a co-author of the Blackstone’s Guide to the Human Rights Act (OUP), the Blackstone’s Guide to the Freedom of Information Act (OUP), the Blackstone’s Guide to the Equality Act (OUP) and many other articles and publications.

Area of specialism: INTERNATIONAL AND INFORMATION LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS

SUSIE ALEGRE (Call: 1997) – Associate Tenant


Having trained at the European Commission Task Force on Justice and Home Affairs and in the Council of Europe Legal Directorate, Susie has continued to work in and around European law, most recently advising the European Parliament and the Council of Europe on developments relating to data protection and migration. Since the referendum, Susie has been actively engaged in legal policy debates on Brexit around human rights, the impact on Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories and the implications for the environment, advising civil society and giving evidence to Parliament.

Susie provides legal and policy advice, technical assistance, research and training on human rights, accountability and the rule of law across the world. Her experience working for international NGO’s like Amnesty International and multilateral organisations such as the EU, OSCE and UN informs her work with a practical insight into legal policy.

She has a particular interest in the challenges faced by small jurisdictions and is the Director of the Island Rights Initiative, a consultancy and think tank dedicated to helping small island communities facing global human rights challenges..

Area of specialism: BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS



ELISE GROULX DIGGS ESQ AD.E – Associate Tenant


Elise provides advice to multinational businesses and other economic actors on how to understand and respect international human rights norms. The aim is to enable them to prevent or minimise harm to employees, communities and others affected by their operations and thus avoid legal liability for such harm. She provides advice on how to address human rights issues in supply chains, development projects, mining, energy production and other spheres of activity. Her clients have also included international and domestic governmental agencies, nongovernmental organisations and labour unions. She offers formal guidance and training to members of the legal profession, business executives and others in the human rights arena and participates in the human rights programs of multiple international and domestic bar societies.

As an international lawyer and mediator, Elise is often called upon to act as a convener for groups and individuals in the field of business and human rights. She is a recognized thought leader in this new and rapidly expanding area of practice and helps raise awareness. One of her principal strategies is to expose her clients to the perspectives of affected communities. Elise believes that changing our lenses and broadening our scopes are essential to ensuring optimal outcomes for all those involved.

Area of specialism: IMMIGRATION

PETER MORRIS (Call: 2000) – Associate Tenant - Former Member


Peter Morris had a practice principally in immigration & asylum law. Acting as counsel before tribunals, in judicial review proceedings and before the Court of Appeal. His reported cases include AA (Uganda) [2008] EWCA Civ 579; and he was junior counsel acting on a pro bono basis for Amnesty and others intervening in A & Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] UKHL 71; and Jones v The Kingdom of South Arabia & others [2006] UKHL 26.

He was listed in Chambers and Partners directory for several years as a leading junior.

Before coming to the Bar he was Director of Policy for the public service trade union, UNISON and before that head of research at NUPE. He was on the European TUC Economic Committee (1996-9) and the ETUC Social Policy Committee (1992-6) where he coordinated the work of European trade unions on social clauses in public procurement contracts.

His responsibilities included developing the legal and economic case for the national minimum wage and he was instrumental in setting up a working group on its legislative form and implementation. He advised the trade union side in major ''equal pay for work of equal value'' pay restructuring (1985-88).

In the 1970''s and 80''s he worked with the garment and furniture unions in East London, organising low paid and mainly migrant workers.




He edited the Blackstone''s Guide to the Asylum & Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004 [OUP 2004]; and was a contributing editor to Butterworths Immigration Law Service and the electronic update of the JCWI Immigration, Nationality & Refugee Law Handbook.

Area of specialism: MENTAL HEALTH

SIR OLIVER THOROLD - (Call: 1971) – Associate Tenant - Former Member (retired)

CONTACT:

Oliver Thorold specialises in medico-legal and mental health law. This includes personal injury claims arising from all kinds of medical treatment, and from the marketing of pharmaceutical products.

The mental health component of his practice has involved numerous judicial reviews, applications to the European Commission and Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, civil litigation, and public inquiries. He represented the patients of Ashworth Hospital at a statutory public inquiry chaired by Louis Blom-Cooper QC 1991/2. In 1994 he was counsel to a Public Inquiry into the death of Georgina Robinson in Torbay and in 1995 he was counsel to a Public Inquiry into the case of Jason Mitchell. In recent years he has acted more for the Special Hospitals Service Authority, individual special hospitals, and other health authorities. He was instructed on behalf of the hospital authorities at the Ashworth Inquiry which was chaired by His Honour Judge Fallon.

He worked as an in-house lawyer for MIND between 1978 and 1981, and has subsequently lectured extensively to mental health professionals and voluntary organisations including SANE.

Oliver Thorold has an extensive specialised clinical negligence practice with many cases involving injuries of maximum severity, such as cerebral palsy cases, as well as the broad range of medical claims. Issues of law which have arisen have included cases dealing with the application of the 'date of knowledge' provisions in the Limitation Act to medical claims, informed consent, discovery, the required standard of medical care in prisons.

In the area of pharmaceutical product liability Oliver Thorold was instructed as one of the two 'generic' juniors in the Opren litigation (1984-90) and one of the three 'generic' juniors in the benzodiazepine litigation (1989-1994). In addition, he has been instructed in many other medical product liability cases involving barbiturates, anti-depressives, and steroids. He is currently senior junior in the Norplant generic litigation, acting for claimants who have sustained injury as a consequence of the implantation of long-term contraceptive devices.


PROFESSOR JILL PEAY (Call: 1991) – Associate Tenant - Former Member – Academic LSE


Professor Jill Peay is in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics. She is also a member of the Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Professor Peay's research interests include mental health law, decision-making and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Recent publications include Mental Health and Crime (2011 Routledge), Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law (2003) and ‘Pleading Guilty: Why Vulnerability Matters’ (2018 Modern Law Review).

In 1998-9 she was a member of the Richardson Committee, established by the Department of Health to advise the Government about the necessary scope of reform to mental health legislation; and in 2008-9 a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Committee which looked at ethical issues in dementia. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board for OUP’s Clarendon Studies in Criminology.

She has conducted funded research, amongst others, for the Department of Health into the knowledge, attitudes and decision processes of mental health practitioners. She has also acted in a training and research capacity for the then Mental Disability Advocacy Centre’s work, based in Budapest, on Guardianship.

Area of specialism: EMPLOYMENT

DR JULIAN FULBROOK (Call: 1977) – Associate Tenant - LSE Academic – Founding AT of DSC


A founder member of Doughty Street Chambers, Julian Fulbrook was, until his retirement in 2013, an academic lawyer at the London School of Economics where he was the Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Law. He graduated with law degrees from Exeter, Cambridge, and Harvard Universities. He was Wright Rogers Law Scholar at Cambridge, where he completed his doctoral thesis, and then spent three years at Harvard Law School, where he was Barnett Memorial Fellow. He joined the LSE in 1976.

Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1977, where he was a Duke of Edinburgh Scholar, he was a pupil to Lord Irvine of Lairg. He practised until 1993 in the fields of personal injuries and employment law.

Major publications include books on Administrative Justice and the Unemployed, Law at Work: Social Security, and Outdoor Activities, Negligence and the Law. Professor Fulbrook is on the editorial board of the Journal of Personal Injury Law, where he writes regular articles.

Julian’s public service includes being a councillor in the London Borough of Camden, where he is currently the Cabinet Member for Housing, have served previously in various




roles such as Mayor, Chair of Housing, Chair of Education, and Chair of Social Services. He represents Holborn and Covent Garden ward, first elected in 1978. He was also a non-executive Director of the Camden Primary Care NHS Trust, specialising in clinical governance issues, as well as having chaired the governing bodies of two primary schools in Holborn and the Swiss Cottage Special School. He is a trustee at Coram's Fields.

Area of specialism: MEDIA, INTERNATIONAL MEDIA LAW

NANI JANSEN REVENTLOW (Call: 2007) – Associate Tenant


Nani Jansen Reventlow is an internationally recognised human rights lawyer and expert in human rights litigation responsible for groundbreaking freedom of expression cases across several national and international jurisdictions. Nani has represented clients before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which led to a landmark decision on criminal defamation; litigated a case against Burundi resulting in the first press freedom judgment of the East African Court of Justice; and represented an Azerbaijani investigative journalist at the European Court of Human Rights. She regularly delivers trainings on strategic litigation, freedom of expression and human rights.

Nani is the founding Director of the Digital Freedom Fund, which supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation.

Between 2011 and 2016, Nani has overseen the litigation practice of the Media Legal Defence Initiative(MLDI) globally, leading or advising on cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and several African regional forums. Nani obtained the first freedom of expression judgment from the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Konaté v. Burkina Faso) and from the East African Court of Justice (Burundi Journalists’ Union v. Burundi).

Nani is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and Adjunct Professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.

MATTHEW JOHN LEWIS (Call: 2000) – Associate Tenant


Matthew Lewis (LLB, LLM) is barrister and former Pegasus Scholar based in Sydney, Australia. He was called to the bar in England and Wales in 2000, and in Australia in 2009.

Matthew is recognised as a media and defamation law specialist and has appeared in many of the leading cases in Australia.




He has particular expertise in matters involving the internet and is regularly retained by search engines and social media companies including Google LLC, Facebook Inc and Instagram Inc.

Matthew is also frequently instructed by the traditional media including in matters concerning open justice. Regular clients include the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Associated Press, Australian News Channel Pty Ltd, Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd, the Guardian News and Media Limited, Nationwide News Pty Ltd, the Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd and the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation.

Area of specialism: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

KAY FIRTH-BUTTERFIELD (Call: 1980) – Associate Tenant


Kay is one of the foremost experts in the world on the governance of AI. She started the world’s first outwards facing Ethics Advisory Panel for an AI company (2014) and participated in the Asilomar Conference (2015) where the world’s first ethical principles for design, development and use of AI were created. She serves on the Lord Chief Justice’s Advisory Panel on AI and have been Vice Chair of the IEEE’s work on autonomous and intelligent systems “Ethically Aligned Design” since 2015. Kay has written numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on the topic and have been featured extensively in the media for her work.

Kay is a Master of the Inner Temple and has worked with the Inn and Lord Hughes on training members to think about the legal consequences of AI. She has Masters Degrees in Law and International Relations where my focus was the impact of AI in these areas. Currently, she is Head of AI at the World Economic Forum where she leads work with governments, businesses, civil society and academics to create governance mechanisms which help scale the benefits of AI whilst mitigating the negativities arising from the technology.

Although AI is her principle area of expertise; in the period 2008-2010, she created and taught in the United States a course about human trafficking. She has been an advisor for the Texas government as to the new anti-trafficking laws implemented there and was on the Board of the Bernard Kohler Centre, a charity designed to help trafficking victims obtain the T visa which allows then to stay in the USA. Her book, Human Rights and Human Trafficking was written to accompany the course. Additionally, she wrote a book about the anti-trafficking laws of the United States.



Area of specialism: PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

PROFESSOR NICK GRIEF (Call: 1996) – Associate Tenant


He is representing the Marshall Islands before the ICJ in cases against India, Pakistan and the UK concerning negotiations relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race and to nuclear disarmament. Besides defending protesters accused of public order offences at AWE Aldermaston where the warheads for Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system are built and maintained, he has given evidence to English courts on the legality of nuclear weapons and to the House of Commons Defence Committee on the legal implications of the White Paper on ‘The future of the United Kingdom’s nuclear deterrent’. He was closely involved in the World Court Project (notably as the author of a legal memorandum entitled ‘The World Court Project on Nuclear Weapons and International Law’) which led to the ICJ's advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons in July 1996. He was a member of the panel of experts at the Peacerights inquiry into the military operations against Iraq, and counsel to the Peacerights inquiry into the legality of nuclear weapons.

He has over 35 years’ experience as a legal academic and is a professor at the University of Kent where he completed his own undergraduate and doctoral studies. He also delivers EU law training for the Financial Conduct Authority and the National Assembly for Wales and from 1999 to 2008 was joint editor of the European Human Rights Reports.

PAUL HARRIS SC (Call: 1976) – Associate Tenant


Paul Harris S.C. is a public law and human rights specialist who also has considerable experience of other areas of civil litigation. He is based at Doughty Street, but also practices in Hong Kong, where he is one of the territory’s leading public law silks.

In his English practice Paul does a wide range of immigration, housing and other public law cases. Recent immigration cases include asylum claims from Belarus and China, a family reunion case from Nigeria and a complex case involving an entrepreneur from Malaysia. Recent housing cases include recovery of substantial damages for disrepair on behalf of a former mortgagor who had become a tenant of the mortgagee. Paul has also successfully used ECHR Article 8 to prevent a mentally ill man being evicted from a hostel. Paul has extensive experience of Africa dating back to a previous career in overseas aid.

Paul is a former chairman of the Bar Human Rights Committee and a prolific author. His most recent book is “The Right to demonstrate” (Rights Press, 2007). A further book “Raising Freedom’s Banner – how peaceful demonstrations have changed the world" is due to be published this year. He has recently published articles on developments in the law relating to demonstrations; on the right of self determination in international law; and on the problems of defamation via the internet.




PROFESSOR MARC WELLER – Associate Tenant


Marc Weller is a leading expert in public international law. He is Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies in the University of Cambridge and the Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a fully accredited mediator.

Professor Weller’s areas of expertise cover all aspects of public international law, including dispute and conflict settlement, statehood and recognition, immunities, territory, law of the sea, crimes and human and minority rights.

Professor Weller has served as legal advisor on issues of international law to governments and as consultant on international law to major international organizations, including the United Nations, the African Union and the Council of Europe. He served as Counsel in the International Court of Justice and as expert in domestic and international proceedings.

ELIZABETH WILMSHURST CMG – Academic Panel


Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG is Associate Fellow, International Law, at Chatham House, and a visiting professor at University College, London University. She was a legal adviser in the United Kingdom diplomatic service between 1974 and 2003. Between 1994 and 1997 she was the Legal Adviser to the UK mission to the United Nations in New York. She took part in the negotiations for the establishment of the International Criminal Court. Her experience has been in public international law generally, with a particular emphasis on the use of force, international criminal law, the law of the United Nations and its organs, consular and diplomatic law, State and sovereign immunity, international humanitarian law.

Area of specialism: ARBITRATION / PIL

PROFESSOR NICOLAS ANGELET – Associate Tenant


Nicolas Angelet specialises in public international law. His areas of expertise cover all aspects of public international law, including investment law and investor-state dispute settlement, immunities, the law and governance of international organisations,





international law against corruption, human rights, UN and unilateral sanctions, territorial regimes and the law of armed conflicts.

Nicolas is professor of international law in the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a member of the Brussels Bar. He is a member of the ICSID panel of conciliators (appointed by Belgium) and of the ICSID panel of arbitrators (appointed by Burundi).

Nicolas has served as counsel on issues of international law to governments, international organisations, corporations and individuals, before domestic courts in various countries, as well as in international proceedings, including the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, the International Court of Justice, arbitration under the aegis of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the UN Human Rights Committee, subsidiary organs of the UN Security Council and the European Court of Human Rights.

JUDGE AL KHASAWNEH – Academic Panel


Awn Al-Khasawneh was Prime Minister of Jordan (2011 - 2012); A judge of the International Court of Justice (2000 - 2011) and served as its Vice President (2006 - 2009); Advisor to His Late Majesty King Hussein on International Law and Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court (1996 - 1998); He was a member of the UN International Law Commission for three terms (1986 - 2000); He was a member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities (1982 - 1993) and served as its Chairman and Special Rapporteur on Forceable Population Transfer. He has contributed to the elaboration of most treaties in the field of Codification and Progressive Development of International Law (1976 - 2000); He has recently been appointed an Ad Hoc Judge in Delimitation Case in the Caribbean and Pacific (Costa Rica / Nicaragua) before the ICJ and he sits in a number of arbitrations. Throughout his long career, he has lectured widely and written a number of articles on international and constitutional law.

Area of specialism: CARRIBEAN LAW

LORD ANTHONY GIFFORD QC (Call: 1962 Silk: 1983) – Associate Tenant


Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1962, Lord Anthony Gifford QC is also a member of the Northern Ireland Bar and in1990 joined the Jamaican Bar, where he regularly appeared before the Privy Council in cases of criminal law, tort, labour law and defamation.

Lord Gifford is the founder of the very first law centre in Britain. The North Kensington Law Centre established in 1970, was the precursor to the community law centre movement which has seen 60 sites develop within communities today, ensuring legal




resources are accessible to all whilst providing a good training ground for human rights practitioners.

Lord Gifford has been Counsel in the appeals of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four; Dudgeon v UK (ECtHR) and in many other human rights cases.

His work in Jamaica, is as Senior Partner in the firm of Gifford Thompson & Bright, attorneys-at-law. Lord Gifford continues an active practice in law in both Jamaica and Britain.

Area of specialism: CIVIL LIBERTIES AND PUBLIC LAW

PROFESSOR HELEN FENWICK – Academic Panel


Professor Helen Fenwick is Joint Director of the Human Rights Centre, Convenor of the SPTL Civil Liberties and Human Rights Group and a member of the Editorial Board of Civil Liberties Law Journal. She is a Human Rights Consultant to Doughty Street Chambers in London, one of a group of Chambers specialising in human rights litigation.

She is author of Civil Rights: New Labour, Freedom and the Human Rights Act (2000, Longmans/Pearson) and of Civil Liberties and Human Rights (3rd ed 2002, Cavendish). She has also published articles on human rights matters in Modern Law Review, Public Law, Cambridge Law Journal, Common Market Law Review, European Public Law, Criminal Law Review, the International Review of Victimology, the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, and the Journal of Criminal Law. She has contributed chapters in a number of books including Superterrorism (ed Lawrence Freedman) (2002, Blackwell), The Public Law of Europe and the Common Law of the UK (1998, Keyhaven Publications, Dr M Andenas (ed)) and Sex Equality Law in the European Union (1996, Dr T. Hervey and Professor D. O'Keeffe (eds)).

ALSION PICKUP (Call: 2007) – Associate Tenant - Former Member


Alison is the Legal Director of the Public Law Project, a national legal charity which promotes access to public law remedies for those whose are disadvantaged by poverty and other barriers. She is responsible for PLP’s legal strategy, overseeing the work of its casework and events teams, and engages in all aspects of PLP’s litigation, policy, research and training activities. She is particularly involved in PLP’s work around access to legal aid; benefit sanctioning; and on the the UK’s departure from the EU. In June 2020, Alison was awarded the Outstanding Employed Barrister in an NGO award by the Employed Barristers Committee of the Bar Council. For more information about the PLP please see its website: www.publiclawproject.org.uk



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Before moving to PLP in summer 2016, Alison had a public law practice at Doughty Street specialising in immigration, asylum and migrants’ rights in the wider contexts of unlawful detention, community care, asylum support, and access to justice.

Alison was junior counsel in two of the leading challenges to the legal aid cuts – R (Public Law Project) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC 2365 (Admin) and [2015] EWCA Civ 1193 [2016] UKSC 39 (the successful challenge to the proposed ‘residence test’ for legal aid) and R (Gudanavicience & Others) v Director of Legal Aid Casework & Lord Chancellor [2014] EWCA Civ 1622 (which has established that Article 8, ECHR may require legal aid to be provided in immigration cases). In July 2015 she was awarded the Legal Aid Barrister of the Year award by the Legal Aid Practitioners’ Group in recognition of her work on these and other cases and in October 2015 was awarded Human Rights and Public Law Junior of the Year at the Chambers and Partners Bar Awards.

Area of specialism: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE

PROFESSOR RUTI TEITEL – Academic Panel


Ruti Teitel is the Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School; and a Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics. She has visited at Yale University, Hebrew University Law School, Fordham University Law School, University of Connecticut, and has been Visiting Professor at London School of Economics. She has been a Straus Fellow-in-Residence at New York University Law School’s Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice (2012-2013). Prof. Teitel is founding co-chair of the American Society of International Law's Interest Group on Transitional Justice and Rule of Law, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Studies Association Human Rights Section as well as on the ILA International Human Rights Committee.

Prof. Teitel is also on the Board of the London Review of International Law and the London Transitional Justice Network. She is the author of the landmark Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000) and many articles and book chapters on international and comparative law, often focusing on political transitions. In 2012, she published Humanity’s Law (OUP, 2012) setting out a paradigm shift in international affairs. Her latest book is Globalizing Transitional Justice (OUP 2015) which explores the last decade in the evolution of the field. She also writes and tweets regularly for a broader audience on international human rights issues @rutiteitel.

Area of specialism: MEDIATION



LAWRENCE KERSHEN QC (Call: 1967 Silk: 1992) – Associate Tenant


Lawrence now works exclusively in mediation and ADR, and in training others in mediation and negotiation skills. He has practised as a mediator since he was accredited in 1994, with experience in a variety of disputes in a range of sectors. Chambers Guide consistently identifies him as a Leader at the Bar in ADR.

His mediation experience includes commercial contracts, banking and financial services, construction, defamation, engineering, inheritance, insurance, intellectual property, manufacturing, media, partnership, police, professional negligence, property, shareholdings and voluntary organisations. He also has experience in cross-cultural disputes.

Lawrence practised as a barrister for more than 30 years in a broad range of civil, commercial and complex criminal cases, and sat as a Recorder of the Crown Court. He acted as observer for Amnesty International in trials in the Gambia, Israel and Grenada, and in 1991 mediated between the Government of Grenada and 14 death row prisoners.

To support the international work of Search for Common Ground in conflict transformation and peace-building he helped establish Search for Common Ground in the UK in 2007. He was its Chair until 2012 and remains a Board member. In 2007 he was honoured to be appointed Chief Pa Kumrabai of Yoni Bana Chiefdom in Sierra Leone.

LOUISA WEINSTEIN - Associate


Louisa is an experienced mediation and trainer having practiced since 2004. She has carried out extensive mediations covering property, construction, corporate-commercial, shareholder disputes, media with a range of corporate, public sector and high profile clients. She is also a regular contributor to the Civil Mediation Council having also spoken at the Annual Conference this year.

Louisa’s practice is highly commercial, flexible and focussed on the needs of the parties whilst being sensitive to commercial pressures and demands. She adapts her approach according to the situation and the individual ensuring that the parties have the opportunity to be responsible for and in charge of their conflict. Louisa stakes her reputation on her integrity, care, and professionalism.

Louisa’s clients range from backgrounds including Financial Services, Property, Telecommunications, Insurance, Fashion, Media, Not for profit, SMEs, Public Sector and Planning. Recent clients include A&N Media, Associated Newspapers, UK Telehouse, Slaughter and May, Westminster Action Network on Disability, Zatchi and private individuals.





Area of specialism: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW / BREXIT NI

PROFESSOR COLIN HARVEY – Academic Panel


Colin Harvey is Professor of Human Rights Law, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast. He is a member of the Academic Panel at Doughty Street Chambers in London and a member of the Research Excellence Framework 2014 (REF2014) Panel for Law, and the REF2014 Equality and Diversity Advisory Panel. He is a former Head of the Law School, member of Senate and Director of the Human Rights Centre at Queen’s. He was previously the Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at the University of Leeds, and has held Visiting Professorships at the London School of Economics, the University of Michigan, and Fordham University. Professor Harvey has also served on the Northern Ireland Higher Education Council, and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. He is the General Editor of Human Rights Law in Perspective, and is the on the editorial boards of: International Journal of Refugee Law, Human Rights Law Review, European Human Rights Law Review, and the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. He has written extensively on human rights and refugee law.

Area of specialism: IRELAND

CONAN FEGAN (Call: 2005) – Associate Tenant


Regularly instructed to act on behalf of parents and guardian ad litem in public law cases in the Family Care Centres and High Court in Northern Ireland.

Instructed in a number of high profile ‘legacy cases’ in Northern Ireland and Ireland arising from the Troubles, including actions for damages and declarations for misfeasance in public office against police and ministers, false imprisonment arising from internment and for failures to investigate pursuant to Art 2 ECHR.

Regularly instructed in high profile defamation actions against newspapers and internet-based publications. Due to more favourable legal environment and higher damages, Dublin is the jurisdiction of choice if possible.

Regularly instructed in NI and ROI for plaintiffs and insurance companies in high value and complex personal injury cases.






Area of specialism: HOUSING

ROBERT LATHAM (Call: 1976) – Associate Tenant - Former Member


In January 2013, Robert stepped down as the senior member of the Housing and Social Welfare Team. He retains an associate tenancy at Doughty Street.

Robert is renowned for his encyclopaedic knowledge of all areas of housing law, including allocations, homelessness, security of tenure and the regulation of registered providers of social housing. Social rights to housing are seen in the context of the obligations placed on social landlords by the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998. Robert was named Legal Aid Barrister of the Year in December 2008.

Robert has served as Vice Chair (Civil) of the Bar Council’s Remuneration Committee. He was a member of Bar Council’s Bill Group which opposed the dismantling of civil legal aid in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. This culminated in a decade of his involvement in the reform to civil legal aid.

Robert also served as an Executive member of the Housing Law Practitioner’s Association. He regularly contributed to Legal Action; Solicitor’s Journal, Inside Housing and the New Law Journal. He lectured widely. He responded on behalf of the Association on a range of measures to reform housing law.

DAVID COWAN FRSA FACSS (Call: 2006) – Associate Tenant


David joined Doughty Street Chambers in 2015, having previously been at Arden Chambers. He joined the Bar in 2006, through the “Distinguished Academic Route”.

He predominantly practises in the areas of homelessness and allocations, landlord and tenant, human rights, and property law, including shared ownership. He appears in County Courts in his areas of interest, on which he also advises. He relishes the nitty gritty of housing and property law issues, including issues relating to minors (see, for example, Croydon LBC v Tando), constructive trusts and concurrent tenancies; and he has expertise in eligibility issues, particularly in EU law, human rights and public law, and equality issues. As a part-time secondee to the Welsh Government, he has expertise in housing issues in Wales.

He manages his practice alongside being Professor of Law and Policy at the University of Bristol, where he teaches and writes on property and housing law. He regularly participates in training events, and writes regularly for practitioner audiences.

In the past, he has been a member of the Department for Communities and Local Government's expert panel, the executive of the Housing Law Practitioners' Association, Civil Justice Council's Housing and Land Committee, and a Director of Legal Action Group. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Science.




Area of specialism: CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

PROF. GERALDINE VAN BUEREN QC (Call: 1979 Silk: 2013) – Associate Tenant


Professor Van Bueren is Professor of International Human Rights Law and Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford. She is a barrister and an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers. From December 2009 she was appointed by the Secretary of State to serve as a Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Professor Van Bueren works extensively with governments and intergovernmental organisations. She is working on a project for UNESCO on how the law can be used constructively to help combat poverty. She is a member of the Attorney General's International Pro Bono Committee and her most recent book Child Rights in Europe is published by the Council of Europe.

From 2002 to 2006 Professor Van Bueren held a second concurrent chair W P Schreiner Professor, Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Cape Town.

In 2003, Professor Van Bueren was awarded the Child Rights Lawyer Award. The Award, jointly organised by the Law Society, UNICEF and The Lawyer, recognises lawyers who have done outstanding work in the field of children's rights. Goodenough College has appointed her as a Fellow.

Area of specialism: HUMAN RIGHTS, CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

PROFESSOR AOIFE NOLAN – Academic Panel


Aoife Nolan is an internationally recognised expert in human rights law, with a particular focus on economic and social rights and children's rights and is a co-lead of the Children’s Rights Group. She is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the School of the Law, University of Nottingham, where she is also Director of the Human Rights Law Centre's Economic and Social Rights Unit. In November 2016, she was elected as a member of the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social Rights, the leading European monitoring mechanism on economic and social rights. In 2018, she was appointed to the Scottish First Minister's Human Rights Leadership Advisory Group (report here) Her books include Children’s Socio-economic Rights, Democracy and the Courts (Hart, 2011), which won the IALT Kevin Boyle Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, Economic and Social Rights after the Global Financial Crisis (CUP, 2014), Human Rights




and Public Finance (Hart, 2013) (edited with O’Connell and Harvey), and The United Nations Special Procedures System (Brill) (edited with Freedman and Murphy).

Aoife has worked with and acted as an expert advisor, consultant and trainer to a wide range of international and national bodies and organisations working on human rights law issues, including UN Special Procedures, UN treaty bodies, the Council of Europe, and multiple national human rights institutions. In 2017, she produced a report for the World Bank on ‘Fiscal Constraints and Human Rights: Is there a ‘right’ way to scale down social programmes?’, focused on question of under what circumstances, if any, and, if so, how social programmes can be scaled down in compliance with human rights standards

Area of specialism: CRIME

MAX DU PLESSIS (Call: 2000) – Associate Tenant


Max du Plessis is a barrister in South Africa and associate tenant at Doughty Street.

He has an extensive practice in international, administrative and constitutional law; and has appeared in leading cases on international law and human rights in South Africa''s Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal (including cases on diplomatic protection, the death penalty, the duty under international law to combat corruption, and extradition and non-refoulement). He has appeared before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and the SADC Tribunal, and has acted as adviser to governments and NGOs on questions of international and international criminal law.

Max has represented NGOs in South Africa in utilizing South Africa''s Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act in pursuing cases against individuals accused of international crimes in Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Gaza and Madagascar. He has written widely in the field of international and international criminal law. Max is an associate professor of law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, and a senior research associate at the International Crime in Africa Programme at the Institute for Security Studies.

BARRA MCGRORY QC (Silk: 2007) – Associate Tenant


Barra McGrory has been one of the most prominent and best known lawyers in the Northern Ireland jurisdiction for many years, first as a solicitor and then as counsel. He became a QC in 2007 and was called to the Inner Temple of the Bar of England and Wales in 2016 and joins Doughty Street Chambers as an associate tenant at the conclusion of a six year term as DPP for Northern Ireland. He brings with him vast experience of both criminal and human rights law and an acute sense of the impact that law can have on the





lives of citizens and the need for the rigorous and impartial application of the rule of law from the perspectives of both the prosecution and defence.

EDWARD REES QC – (Call: 1974 Silk: 1998) – Associate Tenant - Former Member - (retired)


Edward Rees QC is a highly regarded criminal defender regularly listed in the directories.

Chambers & Partners

“Sources describe him as one of the best cross-examiners in the market. He is a brilliant trial advocate, who knows what to say and how to say it whatever the case." (2014)

“Always totally committed, brilliantly prepared, and just doesn’t give in; A real fighter/an impassioned speech maker' (2013);

The Legal 500

“Highly sought after” (2013) "leaves no stone unturned" (2012)

Legal Experts Directory

'Highly Recommended'.

He specialises in homicide, public order and mental health cases and has a particular expertise in fraud, money laundering, insider trading and asset recovery law.

He regularly chairs Butterworth's Asset Recovery Conferences. He was formerly a member of the advisory panel to the Law Commission and is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Law, Kent University

JILL EVANS (Call: 1986) – Associate Tenant - Former Member


Jill is an experienced leading Junior with an extensive practice in Serious and Complex Crime. including Murders, Terrorist Offences, Money laundering and Fraud and Gang related crime. Jill is noted for her tenacity and command of complex material and ability to digest and communicate detail with clarity.

Regularly instructed on behalf of those subject to mental illness or disability with regard to issues of Fitness to Plead and Stand Trial.

What the Directories Say

She has featured as a Leading Junior in Crime in Chambers Directory for the last 7 years. Currently ranked in Band 3.

She is described in the Legal 500 2012 as "excellent".




PROFESSOR NICOLA LACEY – Academic Panel


Nicola Lacey is a Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford and is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Her publications include A Life of HLA Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream (2004, OUP), Unspeakable Subjects (1998, Hart Publishing), with Celia Wells Reconstructing Criminal Law (1990, Butterworths; 2nd edition 1998; 3rd edition 2003 with Oliver Quick), A Reader on Criminal Justice (1994, OUP), with Elizabeth Frazer, The Politics of Community Harvester Wheatsheaf (1993, monograph), and State Punishment: Political Principles and Community Values (1988, Routledge). Other publications range across criminal law, criminal justice studies, legal and social theory.

Professor Lacey is on the editorial board of a number of journals including Punishment and Society and has been articles co-editor of the Modern Law Review. She is engaged in a long term project analysing the development of ideas of responsibility for crime since the mid-18th Century, for which she was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. Women Crime and Character and The Resurgence of Character formed parts of this project.

Area of specialism: INTERNATIONAL CRIME

PROFESSOR JOHN DUGARD SC (Silk: 1998) – Associate Tenant


John is a South African barrister, practising international law and international criminal law in the Netherlands. For thirty years he was professor of law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where he directed the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, a unit that engaged in human rights research, advocacy and litigation. He participated in the drafting of the Bill of Rights of the 1996 South African Constitution. From 1995 to 1997 he was Director of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, Cambridge, and from 1998 to 2006 he was professor of international law at the University of Leiden.

John was a member of the UN International Law Commission for fifteen years and was Special Rapporteur on Diplomatic Protection to this body. In 2001 he was appointed as Chair of the UN Human Rights Inquiry Commission to Investigate Violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and from from 2001 to 2008 he was UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Since 2000 he has served intermittently as Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice.






NANCY HOLLANDER (Silk: 1978) – Associate Tenant


Ms. Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer from the Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA firm of Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward P.A. She has been admitted to practice in the US Supreme Court, most US Courts of Appeal and District Courts, two US Military Courts, in addition to New Mexico. She is also on the list of counsel for the ICC and the US Department of Defense’s Pool of Qualified Civilian Defense Counsel for Military Commissions.

For more than three decades, her practice has largely been devoted to representing individuals and organizations accused of crimes, including those involving national security issues, in trial and on appeal. Ms. Hollander also served as a consultant to the defense in a terrorism case in Ireland and, has assisted counsel in other international cases. She has also represented two prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and in 2016, she won the freedom of one of them, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, after 11 years of pro bono representation. His story is chronicled in his bestselling book, Guantanamo Diary, which Ms. Hollander helped facilitate and publish. She is also lead appellate counsel for Chelsea Manning in the military appellate courts. She won Ms. Manning’s release in 2017 when President Obama commuted her sentence.

PROFESSOR DR GUÉNAËL METTRAUX – Associate Tenant


Prof. Dr. Guénaël Mettraux is a Judge of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. He appears as Defense counsel before international criminal jurisdictions. Over the past decade, he has represented several high-ranking military and civilian leaders accused of international crimes, including General Sefer Halilović (former Commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Ljube Boškoski (former Minister of Interior of the Republic of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), General Ante Gotovina (General in the Croatian Army) and Assad Hassan Sabra (Special Tribunal for Lebanon – Rafik Hariri assassination).

He also acts as a consultant before the International Criminal Court (including in the case Prosecutor v Jean-Pierre Bemba), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (including in the case The Prosecutor v Mico Stanišić), the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (for former Head of State, Khieu Samphan).

LINDA MORENO (Call: 1980) – Associate Tenant


Linda Moreno is an American attorney whose representation of clients in numerous high profile and complex trials has resulted in several successes. She specialises in the defense of national security cases involving terrorism and espionage and has extensive






experience in white collar crime. In her practice, she has tried over 100 jury trials, with several notable outcomes.

Linda has been retained by foreign embassies, including the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt, to represent their nationals.

In addition to her role as trial counsel, Ms. Moreno is also a jury consultant and in this capacity she has composed numerous juror questionnaires and assisted in the selection of thousands of potential jurors in a range of complex and controversial cases around the country.

JUDGE ANN POWER-FORDE SC (Call: 1993 Silk: 2006) – Associate Tenant


Ann Power-Forde is an International Judge, a Senior Counsel and an Academic. She is the Presiding Judge of the Constitutional Court Chamber of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) in The Hague—an internationalized court established with a specific jurisdiction to try grave international crimes, including, war crimes and crimes against humanity. As Presiding Judge, she pronounced the first Judgment on behalf of the Specialist Chamber of the Constitutional Court in April 2017.

In 2008 she was elected as a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights and was made a Bencher of the King’s Inns. As a member of the Court, she worked on several pressing concerns of our time—the legacy of the invasion of Iraq, the annexation of Crimea, the consequences of global terrorism, the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, the legacy of European genocide and other historical wrongs.

Ann is an experienced Judge Rapporteur in Chamber and Grand Chamber cases with proficiency in international criminal justice. She served both as President of Judicial Committee Formations and as a Single Judge. She was a Senior Judge on the Strasbourg Court’s Committee on Working Methods, authored the chapter on Judicial Ethics in the Court’s Handbook for Judges (2014) and represented the Court in meetings with Judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

DR MISA ZGONEC-ROZEJ – Associate Tenant




PROFESSOR KEVIN JON HELLER – Academic Panel


Prof. Kevin Jon Heller is Professor of International Law and Security at the University of Copenhagen and Professor of Law at the Australian National University. He was previously Professor of Criminal Law at SOAS, University of London, and Associate Professor and Reader at Melbourne Law School, where he also served as Project Director for International Criminal Law at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, a joint project of Melbourne Law School and the Australian Defence Force. He holds a PhD in law from Leiden University, a JD with distinction from Stanford Law School, an MA with honours in literature from Duke University, and an MA and BA in sociology, both with honours, from the New School for Social Research.

Kevin has extensive practical experience in criminal and international law. After clerking on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, he practiced criminal defence in Los Angeles for four years, handling complex state and federal cases involving corporate manslaughter, racketeering, drug trafficking, and securities fraud. As an academic, he has been involved in the International Criminal Court’s negotiations over the crime of aggression, worked with Human Rights Watch on the trial of Saddam Hussein, served as one of Radovan Karadzic's formally-appointed legal associates at the ICTY for three years, and provided expert advice to the UK’s Serious Fraud Office on corruption laws in eight African countries. From 2016-2018 he served as the plaintiffs’ expert witness in Salim v Mitchell, a successful Alien Tort Statute case against the psychologists who designed and administered the CIA’s torture program, and he is currently an expert witness for the defence team of Ramzi Bin al Shibh, one of the defendants in the 9/11 trial at Guantanamo Bay. In 2019, he joined the Advisory Board of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales, and in 2020 the UN appointed him Senior Advisor for International Humanitarian and Criminal Law to the Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Da’esh in Iraq (UNITAD).

Area of specialism: WHITE COLLAR CRIME

MARK MULHOLLAND QC (Call: 1993 Silk: 2011) – Associate Tenant


Mark Mulholland QC has been a practising member of the Bar since 1994 and during this period has appeared in some of the most high profile and notorious cases to come before the courts in Northern Ireland with significant defence trial experience ranging from serious fraud, revenue, corruption and corporate ‘white collar’ investigations to non jury terrorist and organised crime cases, as well as ‘Troubles related’ legacy inquests.

Mark graduated from Queen’s University Belfast (LL.B), University College Dublin (LL.M) with a Masters degree in Commercial Law and the Institute of Professional Legal Studies





before call to the Bar in 1993. Mark took Silk in 2011. He is also a practising member of the Bars of Ireland and England and Wales (Middle Temple) and a door tenant at Doughty Street chambers , London. In 2010 Mark served as Chairman of the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar of Northern Ireland, and was elected Chairman of the General Council of the Bar and of the Executive Council of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland in 2012 until 2014 having served as vice chairman between 2010 and 2012. He continued with his busy practice during his time in office. Mark is to be inducted as a member of the Academy of International Trial Lawyers in Washington DC in forthcoming weeks.

Area of specialism: EXTRADITION

MIKOLAJ PIETRZAK – Associate Tenant


Mikołaj Pietrzak is a graduate of the University of Warsaw Faculty of Law and Administration and a holder of the Cambridge University Certificate in English and European Law. Between 2010 and 2016 he was the Chairman of the Human Rights Council of the Polish Bar Council. As of November 2016 he is the Dean of the Warsaw Bar Council. In 2016, he was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as one of the five members of the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture. He is the recipient of the Edward Wende award, which recognizes lawyers who dedicate themselves to the fight for justice and defence of the public good.

Mikołaj Pietrzak is a member of a number of international organizations for lawyers including the European Criminal Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers in the United States of America and the Legal Experts Advisory Panel for Fair Trials International. He was a permanent representative of the Polish Bar at the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) in the Human Rights Commission and the CCBE Permanent Deputation at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He is a member of the International Criminal Court Bar Association. He is one of the founders of the Prof. Zbigniew Hołda Association, of which he is currently a member of the board of directors.

Area of specialism: TRAFFICKING

DR. ANNE GALLAGHER – Academic Panel


Anne Gallagher AO is a lawyer, practitioner, teacher and scholar, specialising in human rights and the administration of criminal justice. She obtained a BA and LLB from Macquarie University; a Masters of International Law from the Australian National




University; and a PhD from the University of Utrecht. After teaching for several years at the ANU Law School Anne was recruited to the United Nations in 1992 as a Human Rights Officer. From 1998 to 2002 she was Special Adviser on Human Trafficking to Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland. During this time Anne represented the High Commissioner at negotiations for the United Nations Convention on Transnational Crime and its protocols on human trafficking and migrant smuggling. She led the development of the highly influential United Nations Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking and was founding Chair of the UN Inter-Agency Group on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling. Since resigning from the UN in 2003, Anne has worked with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its ten Member States to strengthen legislative and criminal justice responses to human trafficking and related exploitation. This program, the world’s largest and most ambitious criminal justice initiative against trafficking has been widely acclaimed for its impact on laws, policies and practices within and outside the ASEAN region.

Area of specialism: TO BE CONFIRMED


DR. ASHWANI KUMAR – Associate Tenant


Dr. Ashwani Kumar was designated Senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India (silk ) at the age 34 and was the youngest designated Senior counsel and was appointed Additional Solicitor General of India in 1990 when he had not yet completed 38 years. He has represented the State governments of Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra before the Supreme Court of India.

Dr. Kumar wrote his M’Phil dissertation on “Legal Control of International Terrorism” (1976-77) at the Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and has written several articles on legal, economic and international matters which have been published in various newspapers. He is the author of “Law, Ideas and Ideology in Politics: Perspectives of an Activist” .

Dr. Kumar served as member of the Upper House of India’s Parliament from 202-2016 and occupied several ministerial positions during this time. He served as the Union Minister for Law and Justice and also as Special Envoy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Japan in 2013. Dr. kumar was India’s representative to the United Nations General Assembly Session on several occasions. He addressed the UNGA on 21st Oct 2013 and addressed the Security Council on 29th Oct 2013 .

He served as Accompanying Minister to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan , Prime Minister Gordon Brown of UK. and King Albert II of Belgium, during their State visits to India. He also had ministerial engagements with Late President Simon Perez of Israel and President Mbeki of South Africa.

WAYNE JORDASH QC (Call: 1995 Silk: 2014) – Associate Panel Member


Wayne is a British lawyer and has practiced for 20 years in the international human rights and humanitarian law fields. His clients include governments, international organizations (e.g., the UN and the Council of Europe), NGO’s, corporations and individuals. Over the last decade, he has appeared in most of the international tribunals, including the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) and has extensive experience in advising on international law arising from conflict affected areas and other high-risk environments.

Individual clients have included the head of Serbia’s state security (Stanišić) at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), a Rwandan mayor (Bagilishema) and government minister (Bagaragaza) at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the leader of the Sierra Leonean Revolutionary United Front’s (RUF) rebel army (Sesay) at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL).

Wayne is one the founding partners of Globalrightscompliance LLP (GRC). GRC is an advisory firm specializing in the provision of consultancy services in the area of human rights due diligence. His current work includes acting as a key expert in the Council of




Europe’s business and human rights program for legal professionals and partnering with Action Aid and the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Human Rights and Democracy Progamme to operationalize the UN Guiding Principle on Business and Human Rights (including the introduction of template due diligence and grievance mechanisms) in the Bangladesh garment industry.

PROFESSOR JAY POTTENGER JNR – Academic Panel


Nathan Baker is a Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School. He was appointed to Baker Chair in December 1993. Nathan is a Director of Yale''s Clinical Program (the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization) 1991-2002.

He is a clinical Professor of Law since 1989; clinical tenure since 1986. Teaching full-time in Yale''s clinical program since 1980. Classroom teaching in both litigation and transactional clinics, externships, and Trial Practice, as well as supervising students in matters involving, inter alia, housing, community economic development, legislative advocacy, prisoners rights, environmental issues, special education, and immigration/asylum.

Academic teaching: Professional Responsibility and seminars on Sentencing Principles and Sentencing Guidelines, the Prosecutorial Role, and Jurisprudence

Current research: professionalism, legal education (U.S., England, China & India), and new urbanism

DOUGLAS MENDES SC – Associate Tenant

CHRISTOPHER SALLON QC – Associate Tenant


Chris came to the Bar after working for the United Nations in New York. A founder member of Doughty Street Chambers, Chris specialises in financial services law, FSMA regulation, financial crime, bribery, and corporate compliance. He provides pre-charge advice, and represents individuals and companies within the banking and financial services industry in criminal matters. He also appears on behalf of those facing regulatory proceedings brought by the FCA in the UK, and by the DFSA in Dubai.

Chris co-wrote 'Bribery: A Compliance Handbook', published by Bloomsbury Professional in 2014.

Chris’s general criminal practice includes homicide, particularly cases which involve medicine and forensic science; and appeal work.




Chris also represented the Forensic Science Service in the Home Office Review into forensic work carried out during the investigation into the death of Damilola Taylor.

Chris’s practice also includes health and professional discipline and regulation, representing doctors and dentists in disciplinary proceedings. He co-wrote 'Professional Discipline and Healthcare Regulators: a Legal Handbook' published in September 2012 by Legal Action Group.

In 2008 Chris was appointed Special Counsel to the House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee's Enquiry into Party Funding. He was also appointed as a special adviser to the Commons Public Administration Select Committee in their Enquiry into Propriety and Honours. His written Advice on reforming the law of bribery is annexed to the Committee’s Report.

Chris has worked extensively in the West Indies, and is a member of the Bars of the Eastern Caribbean and Trinidad and Tobago, and a member of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. In 2016 he was appointed by the Government of the Virgin Islands to advise in and prosecute a high profile police corruption case.

Licenced under the Direct Access scheme.

Chris regularly provides companies and individuals with compliance and pre-charge advice.

Formerly the Bar Council's Chairman of Public Affairs, he sits as a Recorder of the Crown Court. He was appointed a bencher of Gray's Inn in 2002.

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