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Jude Bunting KC
Work Department
Position
Jude specialises in judicial review, human rights and media law. He is an expert in arguing novel and high-profile points of law and has acted in 17 cases before the Supreme Court. His practice includes cases involving the rights of the media, surveillance, national security, prisons, police, international law, and women’s rights.
Career
Year of Call: 2006; Year of Slik: 2022.
In 2020, he was named “Public Law Junior of the Year” at the Legal 500 Bar Awards, “Human Rights and Public Law Junior of the Year” at the Chambers and Partners Bar Awards, and “Lawyer of the Week” in The Times. He was also shortlisted for barrister of the year in The Lawyer awards.
He is called to the bar of Northern Ireland and a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission panel of counsel.
Languages
French
Memberships
Association of Prison Lawyers
Police Action Lawyers Group
Human Rights Lawyers Association
Administrative Law Bar Association
Education
Hertford College, Oxford – B.A., Modern History and French, First Class.
Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris – Diplôme international de sciences politiques et sociales
Nottingham Law School – GDL and BVC.
Gray’s Inn –
David Karmel Memorial Scholarship (2004).
Bedingfield Scholarship (2005).
“Special award for achievement” during pupillage (2006).
Ellenbogen prize for advocacy (2007).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Jude Bunting KC – Doughty Street Chambers ‘Jude is exceptional because he has the courage to take on the fights that others wouldn’t. He is collaborative, extremely clever, a brilliant drafter and warm and kind with clients.’
London Bar > Police law (claimant)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Jude Bunting KC – Doughty Street Chambers ‘Jude is ferociously clever and dangerously charming. A behemoth of the police law Bar, he is second to none when it comes to representing claimants. He is very creative, quickly wins the ear of his tribunal and should never be underestimated.’
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Jude Bunting KC –Doughty Street Chambers ‘Jude is supremely intelligent and strategic. What sets him apart is his advocacy – he is charm personified and holds a court room in his rapture.‘
Doughty Street Chambers is regarded by many as ‘exceptional when it comes to human rights‘, and is equally adept at handling complex administrative and public law matters. Edward Fitzgerald KC has ‘encyclopaedic knowledge‘ of human rights law, and successfully represented the claimant in R (Quaye) v Secretary of State for Justice, a case concerning the impact of s.128 of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 on the provision of sentence reviews to murderers who, owing to the fact they committed the offence under the age of eighteen, are sentenced to detention at His Majesty’s pleasure rather than life imprisonment. Jude Bunting KC is ‘a work of art in the court room‘, and the ‘very astute‘ Adam Wagner is ‘an outstanding lawyer‘.
London Bar > Defamation and privacy
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Jude Bunting KC –Doughty Street Chambers ‘Jude is one of the standout performers of his generation at the Bar. There is little wonder he took silk at such a young age. Phenomenal performer in court, utterly fearless and he charms the judge with the breadth of his legal knowledge.’
Doughty Street Chambers has an ‘impressive offering in this area and real strength in-depth as free speech lawyers’, covering a wide array of media and information law issues, including defamation and malicious falsehood, privacy, freedom of information, and harassment. The set is particularly well regarded for its expertise of media and information law with an international element, with Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC acting as leading counsel for award-winning journalist Maria Ressa in defending a litany of criminal charges brought by the Filipino government, including three charges of criminal defamation. Jude Bunting KC was instructed to advise Channel 4 on all aspects of media law related to its documentary about Russell Brand, In Plain Sight, which made a series of serious allegations of sexual misconduct against the former television personality. Mark Henderson represented the claimant in Tahir Alam v Guardian News and Media, a major libel claim following the “Trojan Horse” imbroglio, which alleged a plot to run a number of schools in the West Midlands according to strict Islamic principles.