Josephine Fathers
Call: 2022
Josephine joined Garden Court as a tenant in October 2023 after successfully completing pupillage under the supervision of Amanda Weston KC and Alex Taylor-Camara. She is building a broad human…
Oscar Davies
Call: 2018
Oscar Davies is a discrimination, public law and human rights barrister specialising in complex Equality Act and Convention rights litigation. They are ranked as a Rising Star in the Legal…
Marguerite Russell
Call: 1972
Marguerite Russell has a wide-ranging criminal practice and is regularly instructed to lead in complex criminal cases. She has built up considerable expertise in all current areas of expert evidence…
Administrative and Public Law
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…
Criminal Appeals & Miscarriages of Justice
We continue to work at the cutting-edge of appellate law. Two of our criminal appeals barristers were instructed in the momentous Supreme Court decision on joint enterprise (R v Jogee;…
Dangerous use of force, failure of safeguards and culture of dehumanisation – Brook House Inquiry report finds 19 instances of inhumane or degrading treatment
Tuesday 19 Sep 2023
Today the Brook House Inquiry (BHI) has published its report on its investigation into allegations that people held in immigration detention were subjected to torture, inhuman and degrading treatment following undercover footage…
Colston statue topplers acquitted
Wednesday 5 Jan 2022
Pulling down the statue was an act of protest and solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement which reverberated around the world. It has led to a number of local…
