Matrix Chambers

Bar Mark, Criminal Defence Service and Community Legal Service

Address Griffin Building
Gray's Inn, London
WC1R 5LN
DX 400 Chancery Lane
Email matrix@matrixlaw.co.uk Telephone +44 (0)20 7404 3447 Fax +44 (0)20 7404 3448

Email: PracticeStaff_TeamX@matrixlaw.co.uk

Matrix is rated as one of the top chambers for human rights and civil liberties work (Legal 500 2009), in which "pretty much everyone is exceptional" (Chambers & Partners 2009). Human rights law occupies a central position in the collective expertise offered by its members. This is brought to bear in the many other practice areas in which members specialise - from crime, to commercial law, to immigration, to public law and employment.

Matrix members with in-depth expertise in all of these areas have been at the forefront of most of the groundbreaking human rights cases of recent years. In addition to extensive experience of domestic litigation, members have represented clients before regional and international human rights tribunals, including the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the American Commission and Court of Human Rights. Several members appear regularly before the Privy Council in constitutional appeals arising in death penalty cases from the Caribbean.

Recent highlights include:

R(AB) v Secretary of State for Home Affairs - leading case on necessary disclosure in context of control order.

A v United Kingdom & Secretary of State for the Home Department (App no. 3455/05), 19th February 2009 - detention without trial of foreign terrorist suspects (Ben Emmerson QC, Raza Husain and Danny Friedman for the Applicants; Rabinder Singh QC and Alex Bailin for Liberty)

R (on the application of Al-Skeini & Ors) v Secretary of State for Defence - judgment held that, in principle, the obligations in the ECHR and the Human Rights Act 1998 could apply to British forces during the occupation of South-Eastern Iraq (Rabinder Singh QC and Christine Chinkin)

R (Smith) v Oxfordshire Coroner [2009] EWCA Civ 441- applying Al-Skeini to troops engaged in operations in Iraq (Ben Emmerson & Jessica Simor)

For further information and a full list of notable cases, download the brochure by clicking the 'downloads' tab below.

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List Alphabetically or by Year of Call

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Key:* Academic + Associate # Trainee

Nick Armstrong 01 CV	Alasdair Henderson # 09 CV	John O'Flaherty 01 CV
Alex Bailin QC 95 CV	Tessa Hetherington 04 CV	Tim Owen QC 83 CV
Andrew Bodnar 95 CV	Raza Husain QC 93 CV	Laura Prince 03 CV
Cherie Booth QC 76 CV	Janet Kentridge 99 CV	Elizabeth Prochaska 07 CV
Lord Daniel Brennan QC 67 CV	Thomas Kibling 90 CV	Mathew Purchase 02 CV
Michelle Butler 07 CV	Samantha Knights 96 CV	Matthew Ryder QC 92 CV
Professor Christine Chinkin * 03 CV	Julian Knowles 94 CV	Adam Sandell 08 CV
Professor Andrew Choo * 02 CV	James Laddie 95 CV	Philippe Sands QC 85 CV
Professor Andrew Clapham + 85 CV	Helen Law 05 CV	Maurice Sheridan 84 CV
Kate Cook 90 CV	Thomas Linden QC 89 CV	Jessica Simor 92 CV
Professor James Crawford SC * 87 CV	Lord Ken Macdonald QC 78 CV	Rabinder Singh QC 89 CV
Claire Darwin 05 CV	Alison Macdonald 00 CV	Lorna Skinner 97 CV
Zachary Douglas * 06 CV	Jonathan Marks 92 CV	Daniel Squires 98 CV
Ben Emmerson QC 86 CV	Professor Aileen McColgan 01 CV	Mark Summers 96 CV
Danny Friedman 96 CV	Eleni Mitrophanous 99 CV	Hugh Tomlinson QC 83 CV
Professor Conor Gearty * 95 CV	Karon Monaghan QC 89 CV	Professor Takis Tridimas 00 CV
Nicholas Gibson 09 CV	Clare Montgomery QC 80 CV	Antony White QC 83 CV
Jonathan Glasson 96 CV	Helen Mountfield QC 91 CV	David Wolfe 92 CV
Sam Grodzinski 96 CV	Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh 05 CV

Photography courtesy of Sarah Booker

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