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Kate Gallafent KC
Position
Barrister specialising in administrative/judicial review; human rights; employment law; sports law; discrimination; common law (general). Full professional career details can be found at www.blackstonechambers.com.
Career
Qualified 1997, Gray’s Inn; QC 2014.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Employment
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Kate Gallafent KC – Blackstone Chambers
‘Kate is truly outstanding. She is a tremendous lawyer and advocate, and has a gift for dealing well with the most pressured and stressful matters.’
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Kate Gallafent KC – Blackstone Chambers ‘Kate has a razor-sharp intellect. She knows the law inside out.’
Blackstone Chambers‘ members are well versed in handling high-profile data protection claims. Kate Gallafent KC continues to advise multiple institutions within the Catholic Church of England and Wales on a range of data protection matters. Gayatri Sarathy is ‘extremely clever‘ with ‘incisive attention to detail‘; she is appearing for the applicants in Wieder and Guarnieri v United Kingdom, a claim currently being heard before the European Court of Human Rights. The case concerns whether the interception of the applicants’ communications, and/or related communications data, falls within the UK’s jurisdiction for the purposes of Article 1 of the Convention.
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Kate Gallafent KC –Blackstone Chambers ‘A compelling advocate, who gets into the real details of the case and is great with clients.’
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Sport
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Kate Gallafent KC – Blackstone Chambers ‘The best when it comes to complex and politically charged regulatory matters. Her advocacy is respectful, forceful and persuasive.’