International Human Rights

An increasing number of members of Chambers combine their domestic practices with work outside of this jurisdiction. Leading this team is Tony Gifford QC who maintains an active practice in the UK and Jamaica, where he is a member of the management committee of the Independent Jamaican Council for Human Rights and a member of the National Commission on Reparations.

Members of the team are members of foreign Bars or have temporary rights of audience in overseas jurisdictions, including Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Rwanda.

A number of members of the team have taken cases to international courts including the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Other members have developed substantial expertise in international criminal law at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts of Cambodia.

The international human rights team brings experience of advising NGOs on, for example, liability for crimes against humanity. Members are also practically involved in the work of NGOs concerned, for example, in Kurdish human rights, human rights defenders in Colombia, and development in Cameroon.

The team also has significant experience of fact-finding missions throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America, representing international and non-governmental human rights organisations. Members have also participated in trial and election observation missions to, and in judicial training in many countries all over the world including Azerbaijan, The Gambia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Russia, Serbia, Syria and Turkey.

Members of the team