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Jessica Simor
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Position
Specialises in public law, EU and human rights. Recent cases (commercial/EU): R (Wheeler) v Prime Minister [2008] EWHC 1409 (Lisbon Treaty referendum); T-91/07 WWF v Council (June 2008) (Article 230: locus and fishing quotas); GE v Commission [2005] ECR II 5575 (Honeywell/GE merger); R (TC Projects) v Newcastle Magistrates, Gambling Commission [2008] EWCA Civ 428 (for Clermont: casino licensing); C-293/02 JPMO v Jersey (free movement; potato trade Jersey/UK); GNER v Rail Regulator [2006] EWHC 1942 (state aid and discrimination); St Helen’s School v HMRC [2007] STC 633 (VAT ‘economic use’); R (Hoverspeed) [2003] 2 WLR 950 (EC directive: implementation); HMRC v Newbury [2003] 1 WLR 2131 (free movement: excise rules); C444/00 R (Mayer Parry Recycling) v Environment Agency (for Corus: EC waste regulations ‘recycling’). Recent cases (human rights): R (Smith) v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 441 (HRA and British soldiers abroad); R v Bieber [2009] 1 WLR 223 (whole life tariffs); E v RUC [2008] 3 WLR 1208 (Belfast school blockade); Van Colle v Chief Constable of Hertfordshire [2009] 1 AC 225; YL v Birmingham City Council [2008] 1 AC 95 (‘public authority’); R (Barclay) v Lord Chancellor [2008] 3 WLR 867 (Sark constitution legality); R (Wright) v Home Office [2002] HRLR 1399 (landmark case: public inquiry where death in custody); Smith & Grady v UK [2000] 29 EHRR 289 (homosexuals in armed forces).
Career
Called 1992; Middle Temple; member of A-G B Panel; lawyer in European Commission of Human Rights (Strasbourg) 1995; legal adviser to the Human Rights Ombudsman Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) 1996; former member Monckton Chambers; founder member Matrix Chambers 2000; editor/author ‘Human Rights Practice’ (Sweet & Maxwell); ‘Undertakings: Halsbury’s Laws of the European Communities’ ed Vaughan; ‘Human Rights in Bosnia Herzegovina [1997] 6EHRLR 644.
Languages
French.
Member
Executive committee, Justice; Bar European Group; former chair of British Institute of Human Rights.
Education
St Paul’s Girls School; St Catherine’s College, Oxford (MA); City University (Dip Law); King’s College, London (postgraduate Dip EC Law); Harmsworth scholar and Inns of Court scholar (Middle Temple).
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Civil liberties and human rights; EU and competition
