Gary Oliver
Senior Clerk
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MS (Pakistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Supreme Court has today handed down an important judgment in the area of human trafficking and modern slavery.
18 Mar 20
Civil Liberties & Human Rights
“When it comes to civil liberties and human rights work Blackstone Chambers has a 'deserved reputation as the best in the business.”
Legal 500, 2019
“The clerking team are integral and as much a reason to go there as the barristers. We have a very collegial relationship with them all.”
Chambers UK, 2018
“Its outstanding bench of members offer advice and representation across an exhaustive list of issues that affect the rights of individuals across the UK.”
Chambers UK, 2016
“The truth is they have the best group of civil liberties lawyers around.”
Chambers UK, 2016
“The premier public law set”
Legal 500, 2015
“Blackstone Chambers is home to a number of outstanding counsel who regularly appear in the field's most significant cases”
Legal 500, 2015
“Boasts in its ranks a large number of the finest silks and juniors working in the field of civil liberties and human rights.”
Chambers UK, 2015
Civil liberties and human rights cases are among the most important cases before the Courts, preserving the balance of interests between individual rights and the State. Most of the leading civil liberties and human rights cases of the last decade have involved barristers from Blackstone Chambers. Blackstone Chambers is particularly noted for its ability to provide advice and advocacy in cases that develop the law and where a strategic and innovative approach is needed. The set has an almost unique mixture of expertise across traditional claimant and defendant public law, public international law, regulatory law, and commercial litigation and is able to offer lateral thinking practitioners at all levels of experience able to operate to their client’s advantage.
Civil Liberties & Human Rights experience
- Commercial Judicial Review
- Community Care
- Constitutional
- Data Protection and Privacy
- ECHR
- Education
- Environment
- Extradition
- Freedom of Expression
- Freedom of Information
- Immigration and Nationality
- Inquiries
- Local Government
- Medical and Mental Health
- Police and Prison law
- Professional regulation and discipline
- Public law and Regulatory
- Social Security and housing
