The Chambers of Richard Booth KC

Philip Havers KC has a wide ranging practice with particular emphasis on medical law, public law and human rights law. He appears regularly in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

Selected Cases:

• Dolan v Secretary of State for Health (Court of Appeal) (2020): Lead counsel in legal challenge to the lawfulness of the Government’s Covid-19 lockdown.
• R (W) v Caephilly County Borough Council (2020): Court of Appeal challenge to the lawfulness of the council’s decision to close/reconfigure local leisure facilities.
• Dulgheriu v London Borough of Ealing Council (2019): Local Authority's power to prevent protests outside an abortion clinic. Awaiting Supreme Court's permission to appeal.

Call: 1974; Inner Temple; KC: 1995.

Called to the Hong Kong Bar; formerly counsel to the Crown, common law.

Spanish (working knowledge).

Administrative Law Bar Association; Bar European Group; London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; Bar European Circuit; Professional Negligence Bar Association; Personal Injury Bar Association.

Eton College; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MA).

Tennis, music, wine, travel, gardening, trees.