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53-54 DOUGHTY STREET
LONDON
WC1N 2LS
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Daniel Clarke
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Daniel has a wide range of experience across private law, public law and human rights work.
Daniel has a wide range of experience across private law, public law and human rights work. His main areas of practice are housing, social welfare and community care, with a particular focus on discrimination, public law and human rights issues. He also undertakes work in civil actions against the police and other public authorities, and in media law.
Career
He is regularly instructed to represent clients in claims for judicial review in the High Court, as well as parties and interveners in a range of other proceedings from the County Court to the Supreme Court.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Daniel worked as a paralegal in a number of leading public law and human rights solicitors’ firms and as a judicial assistant to Sir John Thomas PQBD at the Court of Appeal.
Memberships
Housing Law Practitioners Association
Housing and Immigration Group
Police Action Lawyers Group
Education
BA Archaeology (University of Cambridge), First Class
MPhil Social Anthropology (University of Cambridge), Distinction
Graduate Diploma in Law (BPP), Outstanding
Bar Professional Training Course (BPP), Outstanding
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Court of Protection and community care
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4London Bar > Social housing
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Daniel Clarke – Doughty Street Chambers ‘He is an excellent tactician who provides high quality advice.’
Doughty Street Chambers is ‘a leading housing law set with great breadth and depth‘ and a ‘very talented‘ team. Martin Westgate KC and Daniel Clarke represented the applicant in Kaye v Lees, a High Court case involving the first application of the provisions of the Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020, which allows a moratorium to be granted when a person is undergoing treatment for a mental health crisis. The case involved a creditor’s application for the cancellation of a mental health crisis moratorium (MHCM), or alternatively to enforce a debt despite the MHCM; the High Court dismissed the application. In 2023 Ben Chataway was appointed as a District Judge, and Matthew Lee joined the team from Lamb Building.
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Daniel Clarke – Doughty Street Chambers ‘Daniel is highly dedicated to his cases, effective on his feet and calm under pressure.’