5 Essex Chambers

Jennifer accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ main practice areas with particular interest in police law, inquests and inquiries, and public and administrative law.

Jennifer Wright accepts instructions in all of Chambers’ core practice areas, with particular interest in police law, inquests and inquiries, data protection and information law, and public and administrative law. She is a member of the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel.

Jennifer frequently appears as sole counsel defending civil actions against the police in the High Court and County Court, including for claims in false imprisonment, assault, misfeasance, malicious prosecution, negligence, for breaches of the Equality Act 2010 and Human Rights Act 1998, and cases concerning data protection law and the misuse of private information. She represented twenty police forces in the undercover cases strand of the Police Overtime Claims Litigation and is acting in numerous cases arising from and relating to this litigation. Jennifer has expertise in public and administrative law and has appeared on behalf of individual forces and police oversight bodies in a range of judicial review proceedings

Jennifer was instructed as junior counsel to the inquest arising from the death of Sean Fitzgerald (a fatal shooting occurring during a police operation relating to organised crime in the West Midlands) and regularly acts for police forces in Article 2 and jury inquests, including deaths in custody and deaths occurring in the context of missing persons investigations, the exercise of s.136 of the Mental Health Act 1983, police pursuits, and restraint.

Jennifer regularly contributes to 5 Essex Chambers’ police law newsletter ‘The Beat’ and provides training and talks to police lawyers and specialist police units on a range of topics.

She holds a PhD in Philosophy and, before coming to the Bar, taught undergraduate philosophy programmes at King’s College London and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Please visit the 5 Essex Chamber’s website for Jennifer’s profile, which sets out full details of her practice including relevant work of note.

The Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association.