GCN barristers appointed to EHRC Preferred Counsel Panel
01/02/2011
Garden Court North are pleased to announce that 9 members of chambers have been appointed to the new Preferred Counsel Panel of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (EHRC).
The EHRC Preferred Counsel Panel will operate from 1st February 2011.
GCN members of the EHRC Preferred Counsel Panel are:
Andrew Byles
Sarah Daley
Vijay Jagadesham
Ben McCormack
Kerry Smith
Matthew Stanbury
James Stark
Kate Stone
Pete Weatherby
The team have substantial experience of dealing with a comprehensive range of equality, discrimination and Human Rights cases including:
- Employment - Disability discrimination (including reasonable adjustments), sex discrimination (including a number of substantial Local Authority equal pay cases), sexual orentation discrimination, race discrimination, age discrimination, religion and belief and Trade union discrimination.
- Housing and property - Art 8(2) Proportionality as a defence to possession proceedings (Pinnock); Art 14 discrimination in tenancy succession; reasonable adjustment duty (s24C DDA 1995); discrimination in possession proceedings (s22 DDA 1995).
- Health and social care
- Welfare benefits - compatibility with Art 14 HRA 1998
- Immigration and asylum - Art 3 and Art 8 and discrimination challenges to removal decisions.
- Inquests - Art 2 and inquest proceedings (Middleton)
- Prison law - Disability discrimination (including reasonable adjustment and access to courses); Art 14 ECHR breach in transfer of Foreign National Prisoners to designated FNP prisons and breaches of s71 RRA 1976; Art 6 re prison adjudications (Ezeh & Connors); Art 5 and IPP sentences (James v SSJ).
- Justice and the legal system - Sex offenders register and Art 8 declaration of incompatiblity; Art 3 and legality of whole lifer tariffs (Vinter v UK).
- Shops and services - reasonable adjustment duty (DDA 1995)
- Transport and air travel - particularly disability discrimination
