Dan specialises in public law and human rights. He represents claimants and public authorities as well as non-governmental organizations and is a member of the Treasury B Panel.
Dan's human rights/public law practice encompasses a wide range of areas including community care, prison law, privacy, terrorism, regulatory bodies and general issues relating to fair trial rights. He has been involved in the leading cases relating to financial sanctions regimes imposed on those accused of terrorism, prisoners sentenced to “imprisonment for the protections of the public”, and privacy arising in the context disclosure of allegations of criminal conduct by the Criminal Records Bureau.
Dan's education practice includes cases in the Court of Appeal, High Court and special educational needs tribunal and he has represented both parents and LEAs in claims involving schools admissions, expulsions and special educational needs. He has also worked on contractual education matters that arise in discipline and expulsion from independent schools and universities.
Dan is the co-author, with Cherie Booth QC of ‘The Negligence Liability of Public Authorities’ (OUP, 2006). He has also had articles published in OJLS, LQR and EHRLR.
Dan has taught courses on Constitutional Law and Law and Terrorism at King's College London, London School of Economics and the University of Puerto Rico. He has held fellowships at the Carr Centre of Human Rights at Harvard University (2003-2004) and the Cegla Centre at Tel Aviv University (2005) and has been a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2007).