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Jason Coppel KC KC
Position
Specialist in public, public procurement, information law, EU law and Human Rights Act issues. Notable recent cases include: T v Home Secretary [2015] 1 AC 49 (disclosure of convictions and cautions on criminal records checks); R (London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association) v Lord Chancellor [2014] EWHC (Admin), [2015] EWHC 295 (Admin) (challenge to the government’s proposed reforms to criminal legal aid); Childrens Rights Alliance for England v Justice Secretary CA, 2012 (duty to inform victims of human rights abuses); Humphreys v HMRC SC, 2012 (splitting of state benefits paid for children); St Prix v SSWP SC, 2012 (EU ‘worker’ status of pregnant woman); Greenwich Community Law Centre v Greenwich LBC CA, 2012 (application of public sector equality duty to tender processes); JBW v Ministry of Justice(CA, 2012 (public service concessions and implied contract terms in tender processes); MPC v ZH CA, 2013 (Mental Capacity Act defence to assault and false imprisonment).
Career
Called 1994; Silk 2013. Member of Attorney General’s A Panel for Civil Litigation. Co-editor of Butterworth’s ‘Administrative Law Practice’; author of ‘The Human Rights Act 1998: Enforcing the European Convention in the Domestic Courts’.
Languages
Italian, French.
Education
Methodist College Belfast; Brasenose College, Oxford (1990 BA); European University Institute, Florence (1991 LLM).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Jason Coppel KC –11KBW ‘Jason is phenomenally smart, unflappable and strategic.’
11KBW is ‘a stellar public law set with real talent under the roof‘. Jason Coppel KC has ‘excellent analytical skills, and his advocacy is focused and compelling‘; he has a solid track record in advising on a broad range of human rights law matters. Among the juniors, the ‘brilliant‘ Christopher Knight is ‘clear, concise and incisive‘ – ‘a dream junior‘ – he appeared before the Court of Appeal in R (IAB & others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, a case concerning the scope of public authorities’ duty of candour in judicial review, with particular focus on the government’s practice of redacting the names of junior civil servants in disclosure documents. Bolstering the team at the senior end, Joseph Barrett KC and Amy Rogers KC took silk in March 2024.
London Bar > Data protection
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Public procurement
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Jason Coppel KC – 11KBW ‘Jason is phenomenally smart, unflappable and strategic. He understands a client’s wider commercial drivers at the drop of a hat. He has a measured approach to advocacy and is not bombastic.’