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Adam Straw KC KC
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Position
Adam practices in judicial review, human rights and civil claims against public authorities. He has experience of a wide range of fields, including discrimination, police, prisons, environmental challenges, social welfare, terrorism, children’s rights, immigration and trafficking.
He has acted in important recent public law challenges involving the right to life, abortion, deprivation of citizenship, open justice, inquests, assisted suicide, data protection, pensions and welfare benefits.
Career
Adam was ranked in band 1 by Chambers and Partners 2020 in four categories: administrative & public law, inquests and public inquiries, police law, and civil liberties and human rights.
Adam is an author of Discrimination in Public Law (LAG), Sweet & Maxwell’s Human Rights Practice, and Inquests – A Practitioner’s Guide (LAG). He was previously awarded Chambers & Partners human rights and public law junior of the year, and is called to the Bar in Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Memberships
Member of steering committee of Inquest Lawyers Group
Administrative Law Bar Association
Mental Health Lawyers Association
Child Poverty Action Group
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Police law (claimant)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Adam Straw KC –Doughty Street Chambers ‘He is quick to identify issues as they arise in litigation and able to respond with a robust strategy. He is always across the detail and very hands-on for a KC. He is excellent on his feet.’
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Adam Straw KC – Doughty Street Chambers ‘Adam has a keen legal mind and sound judgement.’
Matrix Chambers boasts a ‘strong team with strength in depth‘ and an excellent track record in appearing in high-profile inquests and inquiries. Danny Friedman KC continues to be involved in the Grenfell Tower and COVID-19 inquiries, leading Raj Desai in the former. Jonathan Glasson KC has expertise in cases involving national security and has been instructed in the Bloody Sunday and Mark Duggan inquests, while Phillippa Kaufmann KC represented the family of Jermaine Baker into the public inquiry into his death – Baker was shot dead by armed police while engaged in a plot to free two prisoners being transported to Wood Green Crown Court. At junior level, Ifeanyi Odogwu often acts for families in controversial cases involving the police, and has recently been instructed by the family of a woman who was killed in a crush outside the Brixton Academy prior to a concert by Afrobeats act Asake. Adam Straw KC and Nick Armstrong KC both took silk in 2023.