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Rebecca Harrington
Position
Rebecca has a practice split between family finance and civil, encompassing Chancery, Administrative, Mental Health and Immigration.
Rebecca has a sound understanding of legal principles and understands the importance of a resolution meeting the client’s needs in ‘the real world’. She has particular skill in identifying the issues most important to the client and working both legally and practically towards meeting these goals.
Rebecca has excellent IT skills, working entirely electronically in suitable cases, and uses these skills to organise and analyse the, often vast, amount of information generated as cases move through the court system.
Rebecca is approachable and available to advise and discuss matters, both big and small, as a case progresses.
Career
Call:2004; Gray’s Inn
- Fee-paid immigration judge (appointed 2012)
Memberships
- FLBA
Education
- BVC – Outstanding (Cardiff) (2004)
- Pg.Dip.Law (UWE) (2003)
- PGCE (Nottingham) (2001)
- BSc (Hons) 2:1 Mathematics (Warwick) (2000)
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Wales and Chester Circuit > Administrative and public law (including civil liberties and human rights)
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 230 Park Place Chambers is ‘an excellent set of chambers’ for public law work, with members regularly acting on behalf of government, public bodies, and claimants in high-profile cases. The ‘tireless’ David Hughes specialises in civil actions against the police, including judicial reviews of police decisions to caution and to refer cases to the CPS, as well as data protection claims against the police. Laura Shepherd is ‘tenacious and unflappable’ when representing local authorities and claimants in judicial review proceedings, particularly in relation to health and community care and education decisions. Rebecca Harrington also works with local authorities in the area of community care and often advises on issues pertaining to the interaction of English and Welsh legislative provisions. Christian Jowett‘s broad expertise includes judicial reviews and statutory appeals, while Christian Howells is a public and constitutional law specialist regularly instructed on behalf of claimants, governments, local authorities, and health boards. He recently acted for the claimant in Counsel General for Wales v Secretary of State for Business, a judicial review of the UK Internal Market Act 2020, with the Counsel General seeking a declaration that the Act cannot impliedly limit the Senedd’s legislative competence.
Regional Bar > Wales and Chester Circuit > Court of Protection and community care
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Rebecca Harrington – 30 Park Place Chambers ‘She is very competent and professional in her advocacy skills. Her attention to detail is extremely impressive, and she fiercely puts her client’s case forward with care and accuracy. She is never too busy to speak to her clients and makes herself available.’
Members of 30 Park Place Chambers have extensive experience acting for local authorities, health boards, family members and protected parties in relation to both deprivation of liberty safeguards and financial disputes in the Court of Protection. Members also regularly advise and represent individuals and statutory bodies in respect of powers and duties under the community care legislation. Head of team Rebecca Harrington is ‘very good with clients’ and is primarily involved in welfare cases. Nia Gowman is ‘knowledgeable, practical, and robust’ and with Welsh language proficiency is regularly instructed by local authorities, health boards, the Official Solicitor, and family members in Mental Capacity Act 2005 and inherent jurisdiction applications, as well as sitting as a deputy district judge. Rhian Jones represents a wide range of parties in relation to health, while Laura Shepherd gives ‘practical and clear advice’ and is building a Court of Protection practice founded on s21A appeals against standard authorisations.