Danny specialises in civil liberties within the criminal justice system, and has an extensive criminal defence practice focusing in particular on due process and human rights in all areas of serious crime. His civil practice includes actions against state organisations that violate the rights of marginalised individuals and groups, and his public law practice includes crime, inquests and general civil liberties related judicial review.
In recent years, Danny has been involved in many of the major national security cases that have been contested before the Court of Appeal and House of Lords dealing with issues relating to administrative detention, admissibility of evidence from foreign state agents obtained by torture, control orders and deportation based on diplomatic assurances. He has appeared for the defence in a number of major criminal trials involving Islamist terrorist suspects, including most recently those acquitted of conspiring to cause the 7 July 2005 explosions in London. He has also acted for bereaved families in a number of right to life cases both in Strasbourg and in this country, including Keenan; Middleton; Harry Stanley; Wright and Bennett; and Hurst. He is currently representing the family of the deceased and the surviving victims of UK army torture in the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry.
Danny has co-authored publications on inquest law, human rights law and criminal practice and pleadings, including Archbold and INQUESTS – A Practitioners Guide (LAG 2008).
In 2008, he was awarded the Chambers and Partners Junior of the Year award for Human Rights and Public and Administrative Law.