Landmark Chambers

Karl accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ areas of practice, with a particular focus on public law. Karl specialises in public law and has particular expertise in cases which raise novel and complex legal issues.

In recent years Karl has appeared in a number of significant and high-profile cases, including Shamima Begum’s challenge to the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship and he is currently instructed to represent the Rt Hon Boris Johnson before the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. He is recognised as Up and Coming by Chambers and Partners for Administrative and Public Law.

Highlights of Karl’s practice in recent years including representing the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the first case to consider the exercise of the powers in the National Security and Investment Act 2021, representing the Secretary of State for International Trade in a challenge to the decision to continue granting licences for the export of arms to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and appearing in the first case in which the Divisional Court considered interim relief in the National Security and Investment Act 2021 regime. Karl is currently instructed to represent the Secretary of State for the Home Department in a case brought by Apple Inc before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal which raises issues as to the Secretary of State’s powers to make Technical Capability Notices under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.

Karl studied law at Queen Mary, University of London, graduating at the top of his year, before completing the BCL at Mansfield College, Oxford, where he obtained a Distinction and was awarded the Law Faculty Prize for Comparative Public Law. Upon completing the BCL, Karl began his legal career as an academic at Oxford and for five years he was a Stipendiary Lecturer and Fixed-term Fellow at various colleges teaching public and criminal law. During this time Karl also taught at the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge and at the LSE and he was Team Lawyer at the Law Commission of England and Wales. Karl continues to hold a part-time academic position as a Stipendiary Lecturer and Tutor in Law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Karl was called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 2018, having been awarded a Lord Mansfield Scholarship and a Hardwicke Entrance Award.

Qualifications

BCL at Mansfield College, Oxford LLB (Hons) at Queen Mary, University of London

Awards

Lord Mansfield Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn Roy Goode Prize Roger Crane Medal The Oxford Law Faculty Prize for Comparative Public Law Hardwicke Entrance Award, Lincoln’s Inn

Memberships

ALBA