A leading set in the market, Serjeants’ Inn Chambers has some of ‘the best practitioners of police law in England and Wales’. The set provides expertise in public inquests and inquiries, civil actions, and judicial reviews, as well as vetting, probation, whistleblowing and discrimination cases. Dijen Basu KC represented the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis in a judicial review challenge against the decision of a Police Appeals Tribunal to allow an appeal against dismissal for an officer who was found to have derelecited her duties in investigating a case of domestic violence against a woman who was subsequently murdered by her husband. Gerard Boyle KC is advising the Metropolitan Police Service on potential disciplinary proceedings against the police officer who was acquitted of murder after shooting Chris Kaba. In Northern Ireland, Ian Skelt KC is instructed to represent the former Chief Constable of the RUC at the Omagh Bomb Inquiry.
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Profile
Position
Gerry is a recognised specialist in medical and police law. His medical work includes regular appearances on behalf of practitioners before various regulatory bodies, including the General Medical Council, General Dental Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council. He is also frequently instructed by the Medical Defence organisations (MDU, MPS, MDDUS), the NHSLA and leading Claimant clinical negligence solicitors in civil actions and Inquests. Gerry's police practice covers the full spectrum of police work. He regularly represents the Metropolitan Police and other forces in high-profile police disciplinary and appeal tribunals. He has extensive experience in police civil actions and Inquests arising from fatal firearms operations and deaths in custody. He is accustomed to giving tactical advice and advice concerning the use of information, handling covert human intelligence sources, the actions of under cover police officers and duty of care issues generally.
Career
Called 1992; Gray's Inn.
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