I advise public bodies, regulators, charities, private sector bodies and individuals on public law and regulatory issues, both in and out of court. I represent both claimants and defendants in judicial reviews. I have worked on a wide range of statutory appeals, regulatory disputes and civil proceedings, as well as working on high-profile public inquiries and parliamentary select committees.
I regularly act for charities and other not-for-profits campaigning for legislative change, including by drafting private members’ bills and amendments to public legislation. I also work for charities on a range of other advisory and contentious matters, including in inquests, appeals against the Charity Commission and complex regulatory issues.
I advise clients on the full range of public and regulatory law issues including human rights, equality and discrimination, freedom of information, professional discipline, subsidy control, public rights of way, safeguarding and local government law.
- Representing a Core Participant in the Nottingham Inquiry.
- Drafting parliamentary amendments to the "Hillsborough Bill" that would criminalise MPs or Peers deliberately misleading the public, for campaigning organisation Compassion in Politics. These amendments were introduced by Luke Myer MP.
- Acting on behalf of a number of charities in inquests involving the deaths of service users.
- Representing a witness in the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
- Representing the Ramblers’ Association in a judicial review against the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and in proceedings under the Highways Act 1980 against a number of local authorities.
- Advising a public body on the establishment of a social impact investment fund.
- Advising a charity on opportunities to use strategic litigation to counter water pollution.
- Advising charities on safeguarding policies and the handling of safeguarding concerns and incidents.
- Advising not-for-profits on legal services regulation.
- Advising charities on the Online Safety Act.
- Helping a national charity to successfully defend its use of the “vexatious and repeated requests” exemption under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.