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Clare Duffy

020 7404 1313 c.duffy@doughtystreet.co.uk

Work Department

Position

Clare has appeared in the Court of Appeal, High Court (led and unled), County Court, Crown Court and coronial courts. She is currently seconded part-time to Channel 5 where she provides advice on pre-broadcast issues and Ofcom complaints.

In Hilary term 2021 Clare spent 3 months in the Administrative Court as a full-time Judicial Assistant. She assisted Mr Justice Chamberlain and other High Court judges and masters with a wide range of  public, media and international law matters, both procedural and substantive. In this role Clare drafted sections of judgments, researched discrete legal issues and discussed cases with the presiding judge(s).

From October to December 2020, Clare was seconded full-time to Reynolds Porter Chamberlain where she worked on all aspects of media and information law, including defamation, privacy, data protection and electronic communication regulation.

Prior to joining the Bar, Clare spent four years working in public policy and human rights. She has variously worked at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights, at University College London teaching public and administrative law, at a cross-party political office as a parliamentary legal officer, at The Carter Center as an election observer and at the European Union External Action Service’s Delegation to Myanmar as a political trainee.

Career

Year of Call: 2017

Education

Bar Professional Training Course (BPP University) – Outstanding

Graduate Diploma in Law (City University) – Distinction (8th in year)

MSc in Human Rights (London School of Economics) –Distinction (top 5 in year)

BA in Modern History and Politics (Oxford University) – 2.1