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Jocelyn Cockburn
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Work Department
Civil liberties.
Position
Partner conducting civil actions against the police and public law, especially inquests and judicial reviews. Represented Neville Lawrence in a judicial review claim for failure to provide reasons for refusing to prosecute anyone after the murder of son Stephen. Jocelyn was also instructed in the case of R (Smith) v MOD, a high-profile case brought by Catherine Smith after the death of her son of heatstroke while serving in Iraq. The case went to the Court of Appeal, and the issue in question was whether soldiers on active service were covered by the Human Rights Act 1998 when off-base. She has also represented families of soldiers killed in Snatch Land Rovers in claims against the MOD. Jocelyn is developing the firm’s inquest work representing families of people who die in custody. Her recent cases include failure of the police to protect an individual who had received death threats, and to protect a family from anti-social behaviour, leading to their suicides. In 2010 she was awarded the Eclipse Proclaim ‘Outstanding Personal Injury Case of the Year Award’. She is on the steering committee of INQUEST and has been involved in the consultation process for the reform of the coronial and death investigation systems.
Career
Trained at Druces & Attlee, qualified in 1997; Deighton Guedalla; Christian Khan; joined Hodge Jones & Allen in 2004, was made partner in 2007
Member
Police Action Lawyers Group; Inquest Lawyers Group.
Education
Casterton School; Newcastle University (1992 BA Hons); Northumbria University Law School (1994)
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Civil liberties and human rights; Personal injury - claimant
