Areas of Practice

Equality / Discrimination / Human Rights 

Cloisters was founded with the intention of defending the rights of the individual and this ethos permeates our practice today. Members appear in a wide range of equality, discrimination and human rights cases, including employment cases in which human rights, discrimination or natural justice issues arise, education, immigration and civil libterties.  

Barristers

Jacques Algazy
Robin Allen QC
Anna Beale
Thomas Brown
Catherine Casserley
Rachel Chambers
Tom Coghlin
Rachel Crasnow
Olivia-Faith Dobbie
Will Dobson
Daniel Dyal
Paul Epstein QC
Sarah Fraser Butlin
Jason Galbraith-Marten
Yvette Genn
Caspar Glyn
John Horan
David Massarella
Dee Masters
Claire McCann
Damian McCarthy
Paul Michell
Christopher Milsom
Caroline Musgrave
Professor Alan Neal
Adam Ohringer
Declan O'Dempsey
Akua Reindorf
Sally Robertson
Daphne Romney QC
Martin Seaward
Simon Taylor QC
Edmund Williams

Cases

Chagos Islanders v UK (European Court of Human Rights) - January 2010
Amnesty International v. Ahmed - August 2009
Tomsen-Chu v. The Richmond Fellowship and Others - December 2008
Coleman v Attridge Law - July 2008
Surtees & ors v Middlesbrough Council - July 2008
O'Brien v. Independent Assessor - October 2007
Gigi Shaban v. Rosemary Wharfe - September 2007
The Heyday reference to the ECJ - September 2007
Lewisham London Borough Council v Malcolm (Disability Rights Commission intervening) [2007] EWCA Civ 763 - July 2007
Project Management Institute v. Latif - May 2007
Re T - February 2007
Hill, Grieve and others v North Cumbria Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Trust Armstrong v Morecambe Bay NHS Trust - December 2006
Chahal v Watford Race Equality Council - December 2006
Heyday Case (R(on the application of Incorporated Trustees of the National Council on Aging) v The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry) - December 2006
Mohmed v West Coast Trains - November 2006
Azmi v Kirklees - October 2006
R (Elias) v. Secretary of State for Defence - October 2006
Cadman v Health & Safety Executive - October 2006
Jones v Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [2006] - June 2006
Allen and Others v GMB - June 2006
New Southern Railway Ltd V Quinn - May 2006
Serco v Redfearn - May 2006
Rutherford & Bentley v Secretary of State for Trade & Industry - May 2006
Tamsitt v F5 - March 2006
Beneviste v Kingston University - March 2006
Matthews & others v Kent and Medway Towns Fire Authority & others - March 2006
Nagy v Metropolitan Police Commissioner - November 2005
Cosentino v Cable News International Ltd - July 2005
Redfearn v Serco Ltd - July 2005
Elias v Ministry of Defence - July 2005
Hardy Hanson plc v Lax - July 2005
Alabaster v Barclays Bank plc - May 2005
Saggar v Ministry of Defence - April 2005
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein v Adebayo - March 2005
Wilson v North Cumbria Acute NHS Trust - March 2005
Igen Ltd v Wong - February 2005
Dattani v Chief Constable of West Mercia - February 2005
Ross v Ryanair - December 2004
Orthet v Vince-Cain - November 2004
Singh v Esprit People Ltd and another - November 2004
Mohmed v West Coast Trains - October 2004
Cadman v Health & Safety Executive - October 2004
Moonsar v Fiveways Transport - September 2004
Rutherford & Bentley v Secretary of State for Trade & Industry - September 2004
Orthet v Vince-Cain - August 2004
Chagos Islanders v The Attorney General & Her Majesty's Indian Ocean Territories Commissioner - July 2004
Paul Higham of 1 Pump Court v Horton - July 2004
Nottinghamshire County Council v Meikle - July 2004
Matthews & Ors v Kent & Medway Towns Fire Authority - July 2004
Archibald v Fife Council - July 2004
Hendricks v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis - June 2004
X v Y - May 2004
Orthet v Vince-Cain - April 2004
Carter v Ahsan - April 2004
Carter v Leicestershire Police - April 2004
BNP Paribas v Mezzotero - March 2004
Williams v Ferrosan - March 2004
Hewett v Motorola - February 2004
Joseph v Cedar Enterprises Solutions Ltd - December 2003
Cunningham v Quedos - November 2003
Anthony Ford-Shubrook v St Dominics College - October 2003
University of Huddersfield v Wolff - July 2003
Angelica Graham v Beadles/Marriott - June 2003
Ellis v Ideal for All - August 2002
Wright v The Governing Body of Bilton High School - February 2002
Sykes v JP Morgan - February 2002
Goldman v Haringey Health Authority - July 2001
Anyanwu & Ebuzoeme v South Bank University Student Union & CRE - March 2001
R v Kelly - February 2001
Gibson v British Gas - February 2000
Colt Group Ltd v Couchman - January 2000