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Joshua Cainer

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Work Department

Employment and Discrimination, Pensions, Commercial and Chancery, Public Law, Regulatory and Human Rights, Public and Private International Law

Position

Barrister specialising in Employment & Discrimination, Pensions, Commercial & Chancery, Public Law, Regulatory & Human Rights, Public & Private International Law.

Career

Joshua was called to the bar in 2019.

Joshua has a broad civil practice which covers  pensions, commercial and chancery, public, regulatory and human rights law, employment and discrimination and private international law. He was recently appointed as junior counsel to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry by Baroness Hallett, Chair of the Inquiry, and is also a member of the Attorney General’s Junior Junior Scheme.

Joshua completed a BA (Hons) in Law (2013-2016), in which he received a Double First, and an LLM (2016-17), in which he obtained a First, at Downing College, University of Cambridge. During the course of his studies, Joshua pursued his interests in public law and human rights law as a research intern at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in 2016. He was also a research assistant to Shaheed Fatima KC in 2017 for the final report of the Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict.

Following his legal studies, Joshua worked at the Court of Appeal as the Judicial Assistant to Sir Terence Etherton, Master of the Rolls from 2017 to 2018. Whilst at the Court of Appeal, Joshua worked on a wide variety of cases involving, among other things, commercial law, professional discipline law, public law, human rights law, personal injury law and civil procedure. He also helped prepare research for lectures on a range of legal topics.

Joshua was awarded the Lord Denning Scholarship and Hardwicke Entrance Scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn and an Excellence Award from BPP University to study the BPTC (2018-19), where he received an Outstanding. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 2019.

Whilst completing the BPTC, Joshua also supervised undergraduate students in Administrative Law at Newnham College, University of Cambridge for the 2018/19 academic year.

Memberships

• Greener Litigation Project – Steering Committee member
• Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)
• Association of Pension Lawyers (APL)
• The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn