Prison Law

 
Email: PracticeStaff_TeamX@matrixlaw.co.uk

Matrix has extensive prison law expertise at all levels, from parole board hearings to the Supreme Court.
 
Many of the leading public law cases of the last decades have been prisoners’ rights cases. Prison litigation continues to raise interesting and important points of law in judicial review claims from the High Court to the House of Lords. It is an area which is subject to continual statutory and judicial intervention, as well as important interventions from the European Court of Human Rights. It is also an area where the Human Rights Act has had a significant impact. Matrix members have appeared in most of the leading prison law cases, and members of the team – Tim Owen QC and Alison Macdonald, with Helen Law and Blinne Ni Ghralaigh – co-write Prison Law, the leading textbook in the area, now in its fourth edition. Matrix members regularly write and lecture on all aspects of prisoners’ rights.

Members regularly appear before the Parole Board, conduct inquests arising in the prison context, and pursue related civil litigation including claims for assault, negligence, misfeasance and discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, disability, religion or other unlawful ground.