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Nicholas Moss KC

020 7583 1315 nmoss@tgchambers.com

Position

Nick Moss specialises in inquests and public inquiries. He has appeared in many of the leading inquiries over more than 15 years (examples include the Detainee Inquiry and the Baha Mousa Inquiry (both as Counsel to the Inquiry), the Nimrod Review, the Billy Wright Inquiry, the Rosemary Nelson Inquiry, the Bloody Sunday Inquiry and the BSE Inquiry). Extensive inquest experience extends to advising coroners and acting as counsel to inquests, and appearing for interested persons with an emphasis on military cases, use of force, prisons and healthcare. He leads the MOD counsel team for the Deepcut inquests. Other cases include police use of Taser fatalities; military aviation fatalities; hostage cases (abroad and in prisons); many high profile military cases involving operational / training deaths, bullying and sexual assault allegations; and many self-inflicted deaths in custody. He sits as an Assistant Coroner. He also maintains a practice in judicial review and national security work. Recent cases include Hottak (Afghanistan interpreters), Sumpter (introduction of PIP) and the challenges to the criminal legal aid reforms (for the Lord Chancellor). Also works the fields of personal injury and employment law for both claimants and defendants. Attorney General’s A Panel of Civil Counsel (since 2008) and a panel member since 1999.

Career

Called 1995; Middle Temple; 12 month pupillage 1995; tenant 1 Temple Gardens (now Temple Garden Chambers) 1996.

Languages

French, German.

Education

Aylesbury Grammar School; Downing College, Cambridge (1994 MA Hons Law); Inns of Court School of Law (1995 Bar finals).