Areas of Practice

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Public and Regulatory Law 

Members of Cloisters regularly appear in leading public and regulatory law cases.

Members have experience in a wide range of matters including:

  • Care standards tribunals
  • Education tribunals
  • Ethical standards in public life
  • Health authority regulatory work
  • Immigration
  • Judicial review
  • Local government
  • Mental health
  • Other professional regulatory bodies
  • Professional disciplinary tribunals (including the British Psychological Society, General Medical Council, General Teaching Council and Midwifery and the Nursing Council)
  • Registered homes
  • Social security
  • Social and health care law
 

Barristers


Jacques Algazy
Robin Allen QC
Anthony Bradley
Thomas Brown
Catherine Casserley
Rachel Chambers
Tom Coghlin
Rachel Crasnow
Jonathan Crystal
Daniel Dyal
Philip Engelman
Paul Epstein QC
Jason Galbraith-Marten
Yvette Genn
Caspar Glyn
Patricia Hitchcock
Linda Jacobs
Claire McCann
John Mehrzad
Paul Michell
Caroline Musgrave
Declan O'Dempsey
Akua Reindorf
Sally Robertson
Daphne Romney QC
Martin Seaward
Lisa Sullivan
Simon Taylor QC

Cases

Chagos Islanders v UK (European Court of Human Rights) - January 2010
R v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs, ex parte Bancoult - November 2007
R (Bancoult) v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No.2) - May 2007
A & B v C (Mayor's and City of London County Court - February 2007
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
R.(North Cyprus Tourism Centre Ltd and another) v Transport for London - July 2005
Victoria Climbie Enquiry - July 2005
Elias v Ministry of Defence - July 2005
Missouri v Smulls - July 2005
Thompson v Law Society - July 2005
A v Hoare - June 2005
Gibson & Gibson v CSCI - May 2005
Bordesley Green Electoral Petition - April 2005
R (Consistent Group Ltd) v Secretary of State Home Department and others - December 2004
Secretary of State for Work & Pensions v Perkins & Ryedale Borough Council - November 2004
Hickey v Home Office Adjudicator - September 2004
Chagos Islanders v The Attorney General & Her Majesty's Indian Ocean Territories Commissioner - July 2004
Taylor v Chief Constable of Thames Valley - July 2004
John Mann International Limited v Vehicle Inspectorate - May 2004
R on application of Jacob Kaplan - March 2004
AC v OFSTED - February 2004
Ward v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and St Helier NHS Trust - July 2003
Ramsden v Secretary of State for Work & Pensions - January 2003
Taito v R - March 2002
United Utilities Water plc v Albany Homes - November 2001
R (on the application of JA Pye (Oxford) Ltd) v Oxford City Council - October 2001
R v Kelly - February 2001
Blackman, Blackman & Blackman v East Sussex County Council - February 2000
Voxkey Services Ltd v Wiltshire County Council - October 1999
Kelly & Kelly v Surrey County Council - September 1999