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Other judicial reviews include the cases of the deaths at Deepcut army barracks, [9] of the government weapons inspector David Kelly [10] and the challenge to the government in relation to the Conservative–DUP agreement. [11] Cooper advised 43 Labour MPs in relation to the 2019 British prorogation controversy. [citation needed]
David Philip Pannick, Baron Pannick, KC (born 7 March 1956) is a British barrister and a crossbencher in the House of Lords and Blackstone Chambers. [1] He practises primarily in public law and human rights and has argued high profile cases before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of ...
Jonathan Paul Cooper [1] OBE (22 September 1962 – 18 September 2021) was a British barrister and human rights activist, described by The Guardian journalist Owen Boycott as "at the forefront of efforts to decriminalise homosexuality around the world". [2] He practised at Doughty Street Chambers and edited the European Human Rights Law Review.
Michael Mansfield KC (born 12 October 1941) is an English barrister and head of chambers at Nexus Chambers. [1] He was recently described as "The king of human rights work" by The Legal 500 and as a leading Silk in civil liberties and human rights (including actions against the police).
[7] human rights, [8] commercial [9] & international law. [10] Their barristers have acted in high-profile cases such as R (Miller) v The Prime Minister and Cherry v Advocate General for Scotland, Newcastle United FC v the Premier League, Big Brother Watch (and others) V The United Kingdom and Begum V Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Richard Simon Hermer, Baron Hermer, PC, KC (born 1968) is a British barrister and life peer who has served as Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland since July 2024.
Doughty Street Chambers is a British set of barristers' chambers situated in Bristol, Manchester and London's Doughty Street, undertaking criminal justice, public law, immigration, employment, human rights and civil liberties work. [1]
European Human Rights Law: the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights (1999), London: Legal Action Group, ISBN 0-905099-77-X. Criminal Justice, Police Powers and Human Rights (2001), with Anthony Jennings, Tim Owen, Michelle Strange, and Quincy Whitaker, London: Blackstone, ISBN 1-84174-138-8.