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Clive Colemanis a barrister and award winning journalist. He was called to the Bar in 1986 and practised in both crime and civil law. He was also a Principal Lecturer in Law at the Inns of Court School of Law where he helped to pioneer the Bar Vocational Course and specialised in teaching advocacy, evidence and professional conduct. For six years between 2004 and 2010 he presented the BBC's flagship legal analysis programme Law In Action, and in 2008 he won the Bar Council's Legal Reporting Award. He wrote regularly on the Times comment pages during that time, and also for the Guardian and Independent. He is now the BBC's Legal Affairs Analyst working across the BBC's national news output on radio, television and the website. In addition Clive has had a career as one of the country's leading comedy writers. His credits include Spitting Image, Dead Ringers, Smith and Jones, and his Radio 4 and BBC1 sit-com about barristers, Chambers starring John Bird, Sarah Lancashire and James Fleet.
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Marie Demetriou is a
member of Brick Court Chambers where she practises in
all areas of EU, competition law and public law. She
was a référendaire to Judge Edward at
the ECJ between 1999 and 2001 and is a member of the
Attorney General's A Panel of Junior Counsel to the
Crown and the Treasury Solicitor's Freedom of Information
Panel. Recent cases include PMOI v Council in the General
Court (human rights challenge to blacklisting/ asset
freezing); FA Premier League v AV Station (broadcasting;
reference to ECJ pending); BSKyB v Competition Commission
(media public interest provisions of the Enterprise
Act, Court of Appeal); R(Countryside Alliance) v Attorney
General (challenge to the hunting ban, House of Lords).
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Richard Gordon Q.C. is
a member of Brick Court Chambers. He is recognised as
one of the leading silks in Administrative and Public
Law and Human Rights/Civil Liberties. He appears regularly
before the House of Lords and Court of Appeal and in foreign
jurisdictions as well as before the ECJ and European Court
of Human Rights. He is the author of a number of publications
including most recently Repairing British Politics: A
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Philip Havers Q.C. has a
wide-ranging practice focused, in particular, on public
law, human rights law, clinical negligence, health law,
environmental law, personal injury law, sports law,
breach of confidence and contempt of court. He has appeared
in many leading cases in these fields and is also an
accredited mediator and a member of the football Premier
League’s Disciplinary Panel. At the Chambers and
Partners Bar Awards in 2006, he was voted Silk of the
Year for “Human Rights and Public Law”.
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Murray Hunt is currently
Legal Advisor to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee
on Human Rights. He was a key founding member of Matrix
Chambers, London and has specialised in human rights law
and public law. His 1997 book, Using Human Rights
Law in English Courts was widely acclaimed for its
perceptive appreciation of the status of human rights
at common law, and accurately foretold the shift in legal
reasoning which came about as a result of the enactment
of Human Rights Act.
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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. He serves on the Attorney-General’s London
A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. His recent cases
include R. (Shoesmith) v Ofsted [2010] EWHC 852
(Admin) (the Baby P judicial review in which he
appeared for the claimant) and R. (Hillingdon LBC)
v Secretary of State for Transport [2010] EWHC 626 (Admin)
(the Heathrow Runway 3 judicial review in which he was
junior counsel for the Government). He is co-editor
of the journal Judicial Review.
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Helen Mountfield Q.C. is a member of Matrix Chambers, specialising in public law, discrimination, education and human rights. She has been in a number of important cases on general equality duties, including the first, Elias v Ministry of Defence. Recent prominent cases include R (E) v Governing Body of JFS, Harris v London Borough of Haringey, Ladele v London Borough of Islington, R (Watkins-Singh) v Governing Body of Aberdare Girls' School, YL, and OO (Jordan) v SSHD. In 2009, Helen was voted Chambers & Partners Public Law and Human Rights Junior of the Year. She took silk in 2010. Helen is co-author of Blackstone's Guide to the Human Rights Act (5th edition, OUP 2009) and edits The White Book on human rights and the Education Law Reports. |
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Aidan Robertson Q.C. is
a member of Brick Court Chambers and has extensive experience
of all aspects of EU and Competition Law. He has appeared
in numerous cases in the Competition Appeal Tribunal,
High Court and Court of Appeal in England and in the CFI
and ECJ at EU level and has considerable experience of
representing clients during the administrative stage of
proceedings before the European Commission, the Competition
Commission and the Office of Fair Trading. |
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