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Jocelyn Cockburn
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Work Department
Civil liberties.
Position
Partner conducting civil actions against the police, public law especially inquests and judicial reviews. Represents families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan at inquests into their deaths. Jocelyn is developing the firm’s inquest work representing families of people dying in custody. Involved in the consultation process for coronial reform. Represented Neville Lawrence in a judicial review claim for failure to provide reasons for refusing to prosecute anyone after murder of son Stephen. Representing black man in a multiple stop and search claim against the Metropolitan Police. Landmark judicial review on behalf of Catherine Smith whose son died of heat stroke in Iraq, which will establish whether soldiers deployed abroad are protected under the Human Rights Act 1998. Representing families of soldiers killed in Snatch land rovers in claims against the MoD. She is on the steering committee of the organisation INQUEST and has been involved in the consultation process for the reform of the coronial and death investigation systems.
Career
Career: Trained at Druces & Attlee, qualified in 1997; Deighton Guedalla; Christian Khan; joined Hodge Jones & Allen in 2004, was made partner in 2007.
Member
Member: Police Action Lawyers Group; Inquest Lawyers Group; Liberty.
Education
Education: Casterham 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
