Administrative and Public Law


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Administrative and Public Law

A number of our barristers specialise in Administrative and Public Law. Specific areas of expertise in administrative and public law include; Constitutional Law, Data Protection and Freedom of Information, EU Public Law, Human Rights, Judicial Review, Media and Broadcasting, Medical and Pharmaceutical Regulation, Public Inquiries, Public International Law, Public Procurement and State Aid, Regulatory and Disciplinary Law and Transport Law.   You can see more details of the barristers' practices by clicking on the links on the right hand side of this page.

Ruth Jordan is frequently instructed to advise and act in judicial review cases domestically and in The Bahamas. She was called to the Bar of The Bahamas in 2021 to act for the applicant in a judicial review challenge to an exploratory offshore oil drilling project in Waterkeeper Bahamas v Minister for the Environment, Bahamas Petroleum Co Plc and others.  She was instructed in a long-running high-profile series of judicial review and constitutional proceedings in The Bahamas Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay (aka Save The Bays) v The Prime Minister of The Bahamas and others. She appears regularly in the Privy Council on public law appeals (for example, in Bimini Blue Coalition v Prime Minister of The Bahamas and others [2014] UKPC 23 and R v Save Guana Cay Reef Association [2009] UKPC 44).   In November 2022, Ruth Jordan and Thomas Elias appeared in an appeal to the Privy Council in relation to security for costs in public interest litigation RDA v The Prime Minister of The Bahamas & others.

Professor Suzanne Rab has worked on a number of representative engagements, including, but not limited to advising a state on the public law and constitutional law implications of the UK’s vote to leave the EU; advising News Corporation on legal challenges to decisions of the Secretary of State to intervene in its proposed acquisition of the interests in British Sky Broadcasting that it does not already own; advising data controllers and processors on their duties under UK and EU data protection law; advising a train operating company on the conduct of and potential challenges to its procurement of information technology services; conducting an internal inquiry for a sports governing body into allegations of maladministration; and acting as adjudicator and Panel Chair in sports disciplinary proceedings for a UK sports regulatory body.

Wilson Leung has acted on a number of judicial review matters in Hong Kong.  He acted as sole advocate (with the other side represented by Senior Counsel) in judicial review against Hong Kong government’s refusal to grant compensation for wrongful conviction (A v Secretary for Justice [2020] 2 HKLRD 86 – A); he was instructed on behalf of the Hong Kong Society of Notaries and successfully defended a member’s judicial review against imposition of late payment fees (Li Chiu Wah Joseph v Hong Kong Society of Notaries [2020] HKCFI 2271 and [2020] HKCFI 1789); and he acted for 31 major banks and law firms to intervene at Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in judicial review against dependant visa policy for same-sex couples (QT v Director of Immigration (Leave to Intervene) (2018) 21 HKCFAR 150).


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