Aileen’s practice as a barrister is mainly in public/human rights, equality/discrimination and employment law. She is also actively involved in police and prison law; education law; privacy, data protection and freedom of information law.
She has appeared in the High Court, Court of Appeal, House of Lords, Supreme Court and Privy Council as well as before employment tribunals, the First and Upper-Tier Tribunals, Certification Officer and Security Vetting Appeals Panel. She has also done extensive advisory work, in particular on human rights, discrimination/equality and information law and has provided a great deal of training on equality and human rights issues for bodies as diverse as the Bar Council, commercial organisations and (through the FCO) Turkish military and judicial personnel.
In addition to her work at the Bar, Aileen has been Professor of Human Rights Law at King’s College London since 2001, and is the UK National Expert on the European Networks of Legal Experts in the Field of Gender Equality and of Experts in the Non-discrimination Field.
She acted as legal adviser to the Forum on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland in 2007-8 and was a member of the Local Government Pay Commission in 2002-2003. She is Vice President of the Institute of Employment Rights; an editor of the Education Law Reports; a member of the editorial committees of Public Law, European Human Rights Law Review and the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law; a trustee of the British Institute of Human Rights and a former Executive Committee Member of the Human Rights Lawyers Association and the Industrial Law Society.
Aileen has published very widely on human rights, discrimination and employment law.