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Chambers of Angus Moon KC and Michael Horne KC
Serjeants' Inn Chambers
85 FLEET STREET
LONDON
EC4Y 1AE
England

Position

Rhys specialises in all areas of public and human rights law. He is regularly instructed to advise on a diverse range of matters including mental health, community care, health care, education, social housing and immigration law. His knowledge of the law across a number of fields enables him to bring an innovative perspective to complex or unusual cases. Rhys is on the Attorney General’s Regional B Panel and the Welsh Government’s Junior Counsel A Panel.

Career

Call 2006

Lawyer Rankings

London Bar > Education

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4

Rhys HaddenSerjeants’ Inn Chambers ‘Rhys is very knowledgeable and experienced concerning SEN and education matters.’

London Bar > Court of Protection and community care

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1

Rhys HaddenSerjeants’ Inn Chambers ‘Rhys provides a very methodical approach to all cases. He provides detailed advice and persuasive drafting. His drafting is to an extremely high standard. His advocacy is very measured and persuasive.’

Serjeants’ Inn Chambers is ‘one of the strongest sets with excellent counsel at all levels’ who handle a range of Court of Protection work, often with a focus on medical treatment-related matters . Bridget Dolan KC has extensive experience of representing clients with limited capacity, while Bridget Dolan KC and Emma Sutton KC (the latter a 2023 silk appointment, alongside Neil Davy KC) represented the official solicitor in Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust v Verden, defeating an NHS trust’s objections to a media campaign seeking a live kidney donor for a seventeen-year-old boy with autism – weeks after the litigation, he successfully received the organ from the donor found. Turning to the set’s juniors, Rhys Hadden, in AH/HH v Hywel Dda Health Board & Carmarthenshire County Council, represented a woman who wanted to move to the same care home as her occasionally aggressive husband of over half a century who also lacked capacity – at issue was if the Mental Capacity Act allowed their cases to be considered together by the same judge. Nageena Khalique KC represented the official solicitor in University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust v Livewell CIC, successfully resisting an application to anaesthetise a pregnant young woman at her home and use forcible restraints owing to her diagnoses of anxiety and agoraphobia, which led her to miss antenatal appointments.