Ms Jennifer Wright > Chambers of Jason Beer KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

Ms Jennifer Wright

020 7410 2000 clerks@5essex.co.uk

Work Department

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

Position

Jennifer’s clients include police forces, government departments, public authorities, and private individuals. She is regularly instructed through the Government Legal Department’s ‘Junior Junior’ scheme and in cases touching upon national security and other sensitive matters.

Recent high-profile cases include the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, the Brook House Inquiry, the Inquests arising from the Fishmongers’ Hall terrorist attack (as Junior Counsel to the Inquest), and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (for the Metropolitan Police Service). She is currently instructed by twenty police forces nationwide in the undercover strand of the Police Overtime Claims Litigation.

Jennifer frequently acts in civil actions involving the police including claims for false imprisonment, assault, misfeasance, malicious prosecution, negligence, and under the Equality Act 2010 and Human Rights Act 1998. She regularly appears in inquests arising from deaths following police contact and is experienced in jury advocacy through both her civil and coronial work. Her police advisory work includes matters of policy and operational powers and she is particularly well versed in challenges to search warrants and to the seizure, retention, and return of property.

Career

Jennifer 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 Chambers website for Jennifer’s profile, which sets out full details of her practice and relevant work of note.

Memberships

Lincoln’s Inn, ALBA