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David Gardner

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Work Department

Public Law

Position

Barrister

Career

David has represented Claimants and Defendant in judicial reviews in the Court of Appeal and the Administrative Court. He appears regularly in the Court of Protection and in the Immigration Tribunals (both First-Tier and Upper Tribunals). David has also appeared in a number of other jurisdictions including in education cases, criminal cases, and parole hearings.

Before starting at No5, David was the sole Administrative Court Office Lawyer for Wales and the South West of England between March 2009 and October 2017. In that role he has gained considerable experience in judicial review and administrative law and was responsible for case management of Court and Upper Tribunal cases, including resolving disputes as to procedure between parties and advising Judges on public law cases. From 2005-2009 he was a legal adviser in the Magistrates’ Court.

Memberships

• Chairman of the Valuation Tribunal for England since 2017
• Approved panel counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission
• Approved panel counsel for the Welsh Government

• Legal Aid Barrister of the Year Award Finalist at the Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards 2023
• In 2017 David was named by the Institute for Welsh Affairs as one of their ‘30 in 30’: 30 people working to make Wales better over the next 30 years’.
• Public Law Wales (Treasurer)
• South West Administrative Lawyers Association (Secretary)
• Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
• Court of Protection Practitioners Association (COPPA)
• Human Rights Lawyers Association
• Liberty
• Member of the Western Circuit
• Member of the Wales and Chester Circuit

Education

Bar Vocational Course
University of the West of England – 1 September 2004 to 1 July 2005

LLB Law Degree
The University of Leeds – October 2001 to July 2004

Personal

David’s book ‘Administrative Law and the Administrative Court in Wales’ was published by the University of Wales Press in 2016.

https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/administrative-law-and-the-administrative-court-in-wales-hardback/

David is an expert contributor to Atkin’s Court Forms for the Administrative Court Forms, Vol.1, 2016 and 2019 editions.

David co-wrote the inaugural Administrative Court Judicial Review Guide in 2016 (and the first update in 2017) with Mrs Justice Whipple and Mr Justice Lewis (as he then was).

David has written a number of articles on public and administrative law, including:

• “Administrative Law and the Administrative Court for – or in – Wales” in ‘Executive Decision-Making and the Courts: Revisiting the Origins of Modern Judicial Review’ (2021) Hart Publishing
• “An Administrative Law Code for Wales: Benefits to Reap and Obstacles to Overcome” Statute Law Rev, Volume 40, Issue 3, October 2019, Pages 273–286
• “The Administrative Court and Administrative Law in Wales and Comparative Perspectives” (with Dr. Sarah Nason) in ‘Administrative Justice in Wales and Comparative Perspectives’ (2017) University of Wales Press
• “Public Law Challenges in Wales: The Past and the Present” [2013] P.L.1

Leisure

In his spare time David is a keen, if amateur, cricketer.