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Gordon Anthony
is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen's University Belfast.
He is a member of the European Group of Public Law (Athens,
Greece) and is the Northern Ireland Rapporteur for European
Public Law (Kluwer). He is the author of Judicial
Review in Northern Ireland (Hart, 2008). |
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The Hon Michael Beloff Q.C.
is a barrister and member of Blackstone Chambers. He was
the first Chairman of the Administrative Law Bar Association
from 1986-9 and is now a Vice-President and Emeritus Chairman.
He is President of the British Association of Sport and
Law. He has been a Member of the Court of Arbitration
for Sport (CAS) since 1996 and has been an arbitrator
at the Commonwealth Games in 1998, 2002, and 2006 and
the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens
2004 and has been appointed for Beijing 2008. He was President
of Trinity College, Oxford 1996-2006 and is treasurer
of Gray's Inn, 2008. He is the author of Sports Law
(Hart, 1999) and General Editor of The Sweet and Maxwell
International Sports Law Review. |
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Martin Chamberlain practises
from Brick Court Chambers and specialises in Public Law,
Human Rights and European Law. He is a member of the Attorney
General's A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, but
also acts for claimants in judicial review claims and
as a Special Advocate representing the interests of terrorist
suspects. Recent cases include Animal Defenders International
v Culture Secretary (compatibility of the ban on
broadcast advertising with Article 10 ECHR), Home
Secretary v Lord Alton of Liverpool (proscription
of an Iranian opposition group under the Terrorism Act
2000) and OGC v Information Commissioner (Freedom
of Information Act, Parliamentary Privilege and Article
IX of the Bill of Rights). |
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Sir David Edward K.C.M.G. P.C. Q.C.
has been a Scottish Advocate for over 45 years.
He has been the Temporary (Deputy) Judge of the Inner
House of the Court of the Session in Scotland since 2004
and has previously held appointments as a Judge of the
Court of Justice of the European Communities, and as a
Judge of the Court of First Instance of the EC. He is
an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh and
the co-author of European Community Law: An Introduction
(Butterworths Law (Scotland), 1995).
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Michael Fordham Q.C. is a
barrister and a member of Blackstone Chambers specialising
in public law and human rights. He was Human Rights Lawyer
of the Year 2005 and winner of the Bar Pro Bono Award 2006.
He is the author of the Judicial Review Handbook: Fourth
Edition (Hart, 2004), and joint editor of Judicial
Review. |
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Conor Gearty is Professor
of Human Rights Law and the Director for the Centre
for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of
Economics. He was one of the founding members of Matrix
Chambers, where he specialises in judicial review. He
has appeared in cases in the High Court, the Court of
Appeal and the House of Lords. He is the author of many
articles and books on human rights, civil liberties
and terrorism including Principles of Human Rights
Adjudication (2004), Can Human Rights Survive?
(2006) and Civil Liberties (2007). His most
recent book Essays on Human Rights and Terrorism
was published by Cameron May in April 2008. |
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Richard Gordon Q.C. is
a barrister and member of Brick Court Chambers. He is
a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Laws at University
College London and an Honorary Visiting Professor at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2008 he was Senior
Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Auckland and Melbourne.
He is a specialist in public and administrative law and
human rights. He is also the author of numerous books
and articles on public law including, most recently, EC
Law in Judicial Review (Oxford University Press)
and (as co-author) the forthcoming Judicial Review
in Hong Kong (Lexis-Nexis, 2009). |
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Lord Hope of Craighead sits
in the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
He practised at the Scottish Bar as an advocate for
24 years. In 1986 he was elected Dean of the Faculty
of Advocates. He was appointed to the Bench as Lord
Justice General of Scotland and Lord President of the
Court of Session in 1989. Since 1996 he has been one
of the two Scottish members in the House of Lords and
as such, he is a member of the Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council. He has been Chancellor of the University
of Strathclyde since 1998.
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Carwyn Jones A.M. was
elected to the National Assembly of Wales in 1999. He
has been a Labour Party member since 1987 and has served
as the Agriculture and Rural Development Secretary,
Minister for the Environment, Planning and the Countryside,
Minister of Rural Affairs and Education and Heritage
Minister. He is currently Counsel General and Leader
of the House.
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Sir Ian Kennedy is Chairman
of the Healthcare Commission. Ian chaired the public inquiry
into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary
(1998-2001) and has previously Chaired the Nuffield Council
of Bioethics. He is a member of the Ministry of Defence's
advisory committee on medical countermeasures, of the
working Group on quality as part of Lord Darzi's review
of the NHS and the National Patient Safety Forum. He is
Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at
University College London. |
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James Maurici is a barrister
and member of Landmark Chambers where he specialises in
public law, planning and environmental law and human rights.
In February 2008 he was appointed to the Attorney-General's
London "A" Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. He has
recently represented the Parliamentary Ombudsman in R.
(Bradley) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
[2008] EWCA Civ 36 concerning the finding of maladministration
by the Government in respect of those who lost all or
part of their final salary pensions when their occupational
pension schemes were wound up. He is a contributor to
and joint editor of Local Authorities and Human Rights
(Oxford University Press, 2004) and is co-editor of the
journal Judicial Review. |
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Jennifer McDermott heads
Withers' media and public law teams. She has extensive
constitutional and judicial review experience. She acted
for Tube Lines and successfully intervened in a judicial
review brought by the Major of London, allowing the PPP
of the London Underground to proceed. For Sir David and
Sir Frederick Barclay, she has judicially reviewed the
Minister of Justice regarding the reform of Sark's feudal
Constitution. She is Chair of the Executive Board of JUSTICE. |
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Dawn Oliver is a barrister
and Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law at University
College London. Her research interests are in the fields
of UK and comparative public law, and in particular in
UK constitutional reform, the Human Rights Act, the horizontal
effect of human rights and the public/private divide.
In 2007 she published the sixth edition of The Changing
Constitution, with her co-editor Professor Jeffrey
Jowell. Her book Constitutional Reform in the UK
was published in 2003. She was a member of the Royal Commission
on Reform of the House of Lords 1999 - 2000, and of the
Fabian Society Commission on the Future of the Monarchy
(2003). She has published numerous articles and chapters
on UK and comparative constitutional law. |
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Aidan O'Neill Q.C. is an
Associate Member of Matrix Chambers. He is qualified to
appear as counsel in Scotland as well as in England and
Wales and practises in both jurisdictions. He has appeared
as leading counsel before the European Court of Justice,
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council the House
of Lords, the High Court (Administrative Division), and
the civil and criminal courts of Scotland. He is the author
of Judicial Review in Scotland (Tottel, 1999). |
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David Ruebain is Director
of Legal Policy at the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
He is the co-author of Disabled Children and the
Law: Second Edition (Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2006) and the Disability Discrimination Act Toolkit:
Tenth Edition. Before joining the EHRC he was Head
of the Education and Disability Law Department and Levenes
Solicitors. |
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Phil Shiner leads the
team at Public Interest Lawyers where he specialises
in international, environmental and human rights law.
He represented the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,
challenging the Government’s decision to go to
war, and fought against the Ministry of Defence for
families of soldiers killed in Iraq. He won the 2004
Joint Liberty and Justice Human Rights Lawyer of the
Year and the 2007 Law Society Solicitor of the Year
Awards. He is co-editor of The Iraq War and International
Law (Hart, 2008). |
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Michael Smyth is Head of
Public Policy at Clifford Chance, where he has been a
partner since 1990. He is responsible for the firm's government
affairs practice and its corporate responsibility activities.
He has 25 years' experience of judicial review cases and
in recent years has acted in a number of significant public
inquiries. He is the Chairman of two UK charities, the
Social Welfare Law Coalition and Public Concern at Work.
He is also Consulting Editor of the UK Human Rights
Law Reports and the author of Business and the
Human Rights Act (Jordans, 2000). |
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Jemima Stratford is a barrister
at Brick Court Chambers where she specialises in European,
Public and Human Rights Law. She regularly appears in
cases raising European law issues, both domestically and
before the ECJ. Recent cases include R (Gentle & Clarke)
v The Prime Minister and others in the House of Lords,
concerning an inquiry into the legality of the war in
Iraq. |
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Takis Tridimas is the Sir
John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law and the Deputy Director
of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College,
University of London. He is also the Nancy A. Patterson
Distinguished Scholar and Professor at the Dickinson School
of Law, Pennsylvania State University, and a Barrister
practicing at Matrix Chambers. He specialises in particular
in public law and judicial review, competition law, company
law and financial services, commercial law, and the new
EU accession States and has appeared as senior counsel
before the European Court of Justice and the European
Court of Human Rights. He is the author of the forthcoming
book The European Court of Justice and the EU Constitutional
Order: Essays in Judicial Protection (Hart, 2009). |
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David Wolfe is a member
of Matrix. His work promotes open government decision-making
and access to public and legal services. It spans a wide
breadth of public and human rights law including environmental,
education, community care, health and disability law.
Among other things, David advises leading NGOs (including
Friends of the Earth, WWF, Help the Aged and IPSEA). He
chaired a DRC formal inquiry into the NHS and was a member
of the working group which, led by Sullivan J, recently
produced a report into compliance of the judicial review
with the Aarhus Convention on access to legal justice.
David is a Commissioner with the Legal Services Commission
and a member of the Board of the new Legal Services Board.
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