Dan Squires KC

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Dan has a wide-ranging public law and human rights practice. He became a KC in 2016 and was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2018. Dan represents individuals, corporations, central government and other public authorities as well as non-governmental organizations. Dan also conducts investigations for schools and other institutions. He is on the A panel of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and before taking silk was a member of the Treasury A Panel. He is a Visiting Professor in the Law Department at Queen Mary University of London. Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 recommend Dan as a leading barrister in Administrative and Public Law, Civil Liberties and Education. He is ranked in Band 1 for Civil Liberties and Human Rights by Chambers & Partners and, as a junior, he was ranked as a ‘star individual’ and twice nominated in the Chambers Bar Awards for Human Rights and Public Law Junior of the Year and was twice Times Lawyer of the Week. Chambers & Partners 2023 describes Dan as “exceptional and a dream to work with” and “a very-sharp minded advocate who judges love”.

Dan’s practice encompasses national security, prison law, police powers, social welfare law education, discrimination, privacy, EU law and commercial/regulatory judicial review. He has been involved in over a dozen European Court of Human Rights and Supreme Court cases including on financial sanctions, prison segregation, interception of communications, welfare benefits, airport stops under the Terrorism Act, religious freedoms in the workplace, discrimination in school admissions, and the retention of DNA and maintenance of databases by the police. He has also been involved in leading cases on the application of international law in the domestic courts and cases involving gender reassignment in particular in relation to access to single-sex services. He has conducted a number of internal investigations for schools and universities on allegations of discrimination, treatment of trans children and teaching of “political” issues.

Dan is one of the leading barristers dealing with asset freezing and export control regimes and has appeared in many of the key domestic cases in this area. He appeared in the Supreme Court in Ahmed v HM Treasury and Youssef v Foreign Office, in the Court of Appeal in Maftah and Kahled v the Foreign Office and Begg v HM Treasury as well as a number of cases in the High Court. He also frequently advises businesses and banks dealing with sanctions regimes as well as those involved in litigation in the EU courts.

Dan is the co-author, with Duncan Fairgrieve of ‘The Negligence Liability of Public Authorities’ (OUP, 2nd edn 2019) (first edition co-authored with Cherie Booth KC). He has had articles published in the OJLS, LQR and EHRLR.

Dan studied law at Christ’s College Cambridge and has an LLM from Harvard Law School and an MSc in Anthropology from the LSE. He has taught courses on Constitutional Law and Law and Terrorism at Queen Mary University, King’s College London, the London School of Economics, 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 was adjunct professor and visiting scholar at Northeastern University, Boston (2011). He was chosen as Lawyer of the Week by The Times in October 2009 and July 2017.

Publications

Books

The Negligence Liability of Public Authorities with Duncan Fairgrieve (OUP 2^nd edn, 2019) (first edition co-authored with Cherie Booth QC)

Articles and book chapters

“Terrorism and pre-emptive civil processes” (2016) International Journal of Human Rights 684

“The Consequences of Public Authority Negligence Liability” (2009) Annual Review of Law and Ethics 327

“The Problem with Entrapment” (2006) OJLS 26

“The dual role of the SENDIST: Recent developments in its powers and functions” (2006) Edu LJ (163) with David Wolfe

“Public Authorities” with Cherie Booth QC and Brady Pohle in Simpson (ed), Professional Negligence and Liability (LLP 2004)

“Civil recovery” in K McDonald et al Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Butterworths 2003)

“Access to a Court after Witham, Lightfoot and Saleem” [2001] JR 38

“Judicial Review of the Prerogative after the Human Rights Act” (2000) 116 LQR 54

“Challenging subordinate legislation under the Human Rights Act” [2000] EHRLR 116

“Applications to the ECTHR and the ECJ” with Philippe Sands in di Mambro et al Manual of Civil Appeals (Butterworths 2000) 153

“’Miranda Rights’ – A European Perspective” with Goran Klemencic in M Pagon (ed) Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ethics, Integrity and Human Rights (2000) 139

“Striking the Balance between Kissers and Tellers – The Law of Breach of Confidence” [1999] EntLR 240

“The Law and the New Law Enforcers – An Organizational Challenge” with Goran Klemencic in M Pagon (ed) Policing in Central and Eastern Europe (1998) 1998

Dan is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. In order to provide legal services to his clients, including advice and representation services, Dan needs to collect and hold personal data. This includes his client’s personal data and the personal data of others who feature in the matter upon which he is instructed. To read Dan’s privacy notice in full, please see here.

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