Chambers of Richard Spearman QC
LONDON, WC1R 5AH, ENGLAND
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Richard Clayton QC
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Position
Principal areas of practice are public law and human rights/civil liberties: R(Reynolds) v Independent Police Complaints Commission [2009] 3 All ER 237 (CA); R (Lewis) v Persimmon Homes [2009] 1 WLR 83 (CA); R(O’Dowd) v National Probation Board London [2009] EWHC 3415 (Admin); Accenture Services v HMRC [2009] STC 1503; R(Ross) v West Sussex Primary Health Trust [2009] 106 BMLR 1; Panday v Virgil [2008] 1 AC 655 (PC); Suratt v A-G of Trinidad [2008] 1 AC 655 (PC); Toussaint v A-G of St Vincent [2007] 1 WLR 2825 (PC); R (Huang) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] 2 AC 167 (HL); S v United Kingdom [2009] 48 EHRR 50 (Grand Chamber); Liberty v United Kingdom [2009] 48 EHRR 1 (ECtR); R (Greenfield) v Home Secretary (HL) [2005] 1 WLR 673; R (Smith) v Home Secretary (HL) [2005] 1 WLR 350. Public law covers advisory and litigation for local government (eg vires issues, powers and financing, constitutional and standards, education, housing, social services/community care), human rights and public procurement.
Career
Called 1977; Middle Temple; QC 2002. Associate fellow, Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge since 2001; chairman Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association; council, Justice; vice-chair, Liberty 2004-07; co-author ‘Law of Human Rights’ (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed 2009); ‘Judicial Review Procedure’ (Wiley, 2nd ed, 1997); ‘Civil Actions against the Police’ (Sweet & Maxwell, 3rd ed, 2004).
Member
ALBA; Employment Law Bar Association; Liberty.
Education
New College, Oxford (1975 BA Hons).
Leisure
Reading, cinema, theatre and travel.
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Civil liberties and human rights; Employment
