Matrix Chambers‘ expertise in crime, human rights, administrative and police law inform its work in major inquests and inquiries. Hugh Southey KC is acting in the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry, while James Robottom and Rosalind Comyn are representing the families of the deceased and one survivor in the Cranston Inquiry into the deaths of over 20 people arising from the capsizing of a migrant dinghy in 2021. Jesse Nicholls is sought after for his expertise in handling Article 2 inquests arising from the deaths of vulnerable people.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
- Profile
Mentions
Profile
Position
James is an experienced senior junior with a multi-disciplinary practice which covers public and human rights law, inquests and inquiries, civil litigation, equality law, criminal law, ESG, and environmental law. He is frequently instructed as a sole, led, and leading senior junior on complex and high profile matters in his areas of expertise. He is equally adept cross examining witnesses in a trial or inquest as he is making submissions on novel and complex points of law. He has appeared in a wide range of proceedings at the highest levels in England and Wales, unled at every level to the Court of Appeal, and led in the Supreme Court, and is on the Attorney General’s Panels of Special Advocates and Civil Counsel.
Content supplied by Matrix Chambers