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The Administrative and Public Law team at Tooks has a reputation for taking brave, ground-breaking challenges on behalf of claimants in all areas of judicial review but particularly in cases raising civil liberties and human rights issues. The team focus is on representing the individual against the state, often in politically sensitive cases including anti-terror and national security measures, detention of asylum-seekers, imprisonment of offenders - eg the recent seminal case of R (Walker) v Secretary of State - and in many unique cases which defy categorisation - such as the intervention of the Secretary of State to overturn a school governing body's decision to re-instate a teacher after rejecting allegations of misconduct (R (ota) McNally v SS Education & Employment) or the challenge to the coroner's decision to hold the Princess Diana inquest in private. The team also provides skilled, balanced and cost-effective advice and representation to local authorities in the exercise of their public law functions. Wherever the rights of the individual are threatened by the power of the State - in any case in which judicial scrutiny and access to justice are in play, the team uses its wide expertise in a variety of substantive areas of law to find solutions and call decision-makers to account. The team's fearless work underlines the democratic importance of an independent bar. Further information Further information about individual members of our Administrative and Public Law team can be obtained using the links to the right. You can also contact our clerks directly: Recent news
- Court of Appeal Upholds Rights of Kinship Carers
Patrick Roche recently succeeded in the Court of Appeal in upholding a judgment which makes it clear that where a local authority places a child with a relative, the child is potentially a “looked after” child under the Children Act. The result is that the carers are entitled to a fostering allowance and the local authority is obliged to support the placement both financially and practically.
16 November 2011 - Hugh Southey QC Acted for Four Prisoners Classified as High Escape Risk
The four are all serving life sentences with minimum jail terms of more than 30 years before they can be considered for parole.
4 November 2011 - Hugh Southey QC Acting in Tier 4 Sponsor Arrangements
Hugh Southey QC is acting in a challenge to the new arrangements for sponsors of students under the tier 4 arrangements
31 October 2011 - Tooks Chambers Rankings in Chambers UK 2012
Tooks barristers are ranked in seven practice areas in the new edition of Chambers UK launched yesterday. Ranked as a leading set in Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Crime, Immigration and Police Law. Individual barristers are recommended in Administrative and Public Law, Employment and Mediation.
26 October 2011 - Unreliable Evidence - The Law and Government Spending Cuts
On Wednesday 19th October Hugh Southey QC will be appearing in the first programme in this new Radio 4 series which looks at how the courts are increasingly being used to try to prevent government and local authorities from implementing spending cuts.
12 October 2011 - Successful Judicial Review of CPS Decision to Prosecute
Hugh Southey QC acted recently in one of the very few successful judicial reviews of a decision to prosecute. The CPS were found to have acted unlawfully by failing to take account of the interests of children (E and others [2011] EWHC 1465 (Admin).
13 June 2011 - Challenge to Hospital Smoking Ban
Hugh Southey QC is acting in a case seeking to argue that patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 retain a common law right to personal autonomy.
6 May 2011 - Tooks Public Law Team on Twitter
You can now follow the Tooks Public law team on Twitter : @tookspubliclaw
14 April 2011 - Judicial Review: Law and Practice
Amanda Weston and Hugh Southey QC have had chapters published in Judicial Review: Law and Practice
13 April 2011 - Abigail Smith Returns to Practice
Tooks are delighted to welcome Abigail Smith back to practice following her maternity leave
10 January 2011
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