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. Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 recommend Dan as a leading junior in Administrative and Public Law, Civil Liberties and Education.
Dan's human rights/public law practice encompasses a wide range of areas including terrorism, prison law, police powers, community care, privacy and general issues relating to fair trial rights. He has been involved in Supreme Court cases on financial sanctions regimes imposed on those accused of terrorism, school admission, prison law and the retention of DNA by the police. He has also been involved in leading cases on the treatment of detainees in Iraq, disclosure of allegations of criminal conduct by the Criminal Records Bureau and remedies in control order cases.
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 the OJLS, LQR and EHRLR.
Dan has taught courses on Constitutional Law and Law and Terrorism at King's College London, London School of Economics, the University of Puerto Rico and Northeastern University, Boston. 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) and adjunct professor and visiting scholar at Northeastern University, Boston (2011). He was selected as Lawyer of the Week by The Times in October 2009 for his work on Al Sweady, a case concerning detention in Iraq.