Free Hybrid Seminar – Chambers at 50 – Celebrating our work on Human Rights Day

This Human Rights Day across the globe individuals and organisations will celebrate “our everyday essentials” to reaffirm rights as positive, essential and achievable.

What better way than to bring together Chambers, our solicitors and partners to celebrate our achievements in protecting, promoting and providing rights to enable people to live their daily lives.

Join us to look back on the past 50 years of Chambers with stories of our human rights cases and collaborations.

Find our 50 years, 50 cases publication here.

Speakers 

Jodie Blackstock, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers (Chair)
Jodie is a public law and human rights specialist, with extensive experience in justice system reform through policy, research and strategic litigation. Jodie’s particular interest is in challenging, through judicial review and civil actions, criminal justice system actors for violations of fair trial standards, abuse and death in custody. She is particular concerned for the effective participation rights of adults with disabilities and children accused of crime.

Sonali Naik KC, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Sonali Naik KC is Joint Head of Garden Court Chambers. Sonali specialises in public law cases and in all aspects of immigration, asylum and nationality law and practice. She is ranked in immigration and public law in the Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 Bar Guides. Sonali is a senior practitioner with over 30 years’ experience. She was appointed King’s Counsel in 2018 and conducts almost exclusively leading work at all levels: the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the Administrative Court and in the Upper Tribunal in statutory appeals and judicial reviews.

Amanda Weston KC, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers 
Amanda is a leading public and administrative law silk. She co-authors Judicial Review: A Practical Guide (Lexis Nexis) and is a member of the ‘A’ panel of preferred Counsel who act for the Equality & Human Rights Commission. Amanda was shortlisted for ‘KC of the Year’ at the Family Law Awards 2024. Amanda Weston KC was shortlisted for ‘Human Rights & Public Law Silk of the Year’ at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2021.

Amanda Meusz, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers
Amanda’s practice focuses on all areas of the law relating to children, including the provision of services to children and young people. She has extensive experience in public law matters and is regularly instructed in cases of the most serious and complex nature including cases involving fatalities, catastrophic injuries, poisoning, FII and sexual abuse. Amanda is often instructed in Deprivation of Liberty (DOLS) cases and other cases where the inherent jurisdiction is invoked, in particular those involving hospital trusts where medical treatment and/or end-of-life treatment and care are at issue.

Further speakers to be announced.

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