We help our clients pursue public law challenges against all public authorities including government departments, courts and tribunals, coroners, the police, housing authorities, schools and prisons.
Areas of Expertise
- Challenges to government policy and secondary legislation
- Constitutional challenges to all the key departments of state
- Challenging cuts to public services
- Access to justice
- Deaths for which the state could be responsible
- Public inquiries
- Human rights and international humanitarian law
- False imprisonment, administrative detention and prisoners’ rights
- National security and counter-terror measures
- Social welfare and health
- Criminal justice
- Discrimination
- Trafficking and modern slavery
- Environmental and planning
Our public law barristers specialise in bringing challenges that defend the rights of individuals and have a wider lasting and beneficial impact for society and affected groups.
Public law challenges arise in nearly all of Chambers’ specialist areas. Our core strength is the multi-disciplinary expertise we can offer at all levels of seniority. We pursue bold and innovative points of law to secure the best possible outcome for our clients.
Our public law barristers write leading texts on judicial review and regularly train others on how to pursue judicial reviews. We are always happy to discuss creative ways in which we can work with you and add value to your work.
Garden Court Chambers won the Human Rights and Public Law Set of the Year Award at the Chambers Bar Awards 2016 and was shortlisted for Public Law Set of the Year at the Legal 500 Awards in 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2017. We are ranked in the Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide for Public Law and in the Legal 500 Directory for Administrative & Human Rights Law.