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Mark Scott
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Position
Mark specialises in private and public law claims against the state as well as assisting families whose loved ones have died in custody. Mark has been involved in conducting a substantial caseload of private and public law claims against the police and other detaining authorities such as the Home Office as well as companies such as Group 4 running prisons and detention centres for the Home Office and Ministry of Justice under contract. He has concluded major clinical negligence litigation against a police doctor (initially involving the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police as co-Defendant) resulting in a settlement at a record level of agreed damages. He has developed a particular and unique expertise in claims on behalf of those detained under the immigration rules and regulations in particular. Mark has established that the detention of children in immigration detention centres where their age was disputed by the authorities was unlawful (the ‘disputed minors litigation’) and acted in litigation for a group of claimants in subsequent compensation claims. He has conducted work on behalf of bereaved families at inquests into deaths in prison, police and immigration custody. Mark has represented the families of Joseph Scoles, Gareth Myatt, presently the only child to have died as a result of restraint in custody and Adam Rickwood the youngest child to have died in custody. He represented the families at the inquests, in judicial reviews of the Coroners’ rulings on the law and in civil claims for breaches of the Human Rights Act. He has provided training for ILPA, JCWI and the Refugee Council on the rights of those in immigration detention.
Career
Qualified 1993; founding partner Bhatt Murphy 1998; Publications of note: the only solicitor contributor to the latest edition of Macdonald’s ‘Immigration Law and Practice’.
Member
Inquest Lawyers Group; ILPA
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Civil liberties and human rights