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Chambers of David Holland KC and Jenny Wigley KC
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180 FLEET STREET
LONDON
EC4A 2HG
England
Landmark Chambers
180 FLEET STREET
LONDON
EC4A 2HG
England
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Admas Habteslasie
Position
Admas has a busy practice spanning public law (acting for claimants and interveners) and property law. Admas has extensive advocacy experience in the County Court, Tribunals and High Court, and regularly acts in high-profile and complex cases across his areas of specialism, including appellate litigation in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Prior to joining Chambers, Admas spent a year as the judicial assistant to Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court and worked in Syria and Jordan for the UN Refugee Agency. Admas speaks fluent Arabic.
Languages
Fluent Arabic
Memberships
Appointed to the Attorney General’s Public International Law C Panel of Counsel
- Chancery Bar Association
- Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association
- Human Rights Lawyers Association
- Immigration Law Practitioners Association
- International Law Association
Education
Qualifications
- City Law School: BPTC (Very Competent, 2014)
- University of Pennsylvania Law School: LLM (Distinction, Award for Excellence (joint 1st in year), 2012)
- Kaplan Law School: GDL (Commendation, 2009)
- University of the Arts London: MA Documentary Photography (Distinction, 1st in year, 2005)
- University of Warwick: BA Film and Literature (2003)
Scholarships
- Horace Avory Scholarship, Exhibition and Duke of Edinburgh Scholarship (Inner Temple, 2012)
- Thouron Scholarship (2011)
- Full GDL scholarship (Kaplan Law School, 2008)
Publications
- November 2019 – A Humanitarian Intervention? The Court of Appeal Decision in CAAT v Secretary of State for Trade | Judicial Review 2019, Issue 3
- August 2019 – When does the “no substantial difference test” make a difference in judicial review applications? Does the outcome differ, depending on whether the case is based on EU or UK law? | Judicial Review 2019, Issue 2 (with James Maurici KC)
- August 2018 – Costs conditions on permission: a neglected tool in the claimant public lawyer’s toolbox? | Judicial Review 2018, Issue 2 (with Tim Buley KC)
- January 2017 – Room for improvement (commentary on Supreme Court decision in R (Carmichael and Rourke) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2016] UKSC 58, the ‘bedroom tax’ appeal) | New Law Journal, Issue 7731
- February 2017 – Derogation in Time of War: The Application of Article 15 of the ECHR in Extraterritorial Armed Conflicts | Judicial Review 2016, Issue 4
- March 2017 – Detention in times of war: Article 5, UN Security Council Resolutions and the Supreme Court decision in Serdar Mohammed v Ministry of Defence | European Human Rights Law Review 2017, Issue 2
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Admas Habteslasie – Landmark Chambers ‘Admas is a stellar barrister. He is a forensic thinker with a sharp instinct for how the court will react to any argument. His knowledge of judicial review is second-to-none.’