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With excellence from top to bottom Chambers provides a first class service in a number of different fields.
Appeal to the Supreme Court against the dismissal of judicial review proceedings which had challenged the lawfulness of the fees regime introduced in the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal by the Lord Chancellor. The appeal was heard by…
Representing high profile persons under UN sanctions in confidential proceedings before the UN Sanctions Committee to have the sanctions against them lifted both in respect of asset freezes and travel bans.
Acted in complaint proceedings before Ofcom on behalf of persons who claimed that they had been treated unfairly and unjustly and had their privacy infringed due to broadcasts in the UK by a foreign news channel. Substantial fines were imposed…
Representing Princess Latifa before the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) which is considering her case. She has not been seen in public for over 2 years following a failed attempt to escape from her family in…
Appeal from a District Judge’s decision that the Appellant had deliberately absented himself from his trial, and that he would be entitled to a re-trial upon his return. The High Court held that although the finding of deliberate absence was…
Advising the Kipsigis and Talai peoples in relation to historic human rights abuses in Kericho County, Kenya including appearing as international counsel before the Kenyan National Land Commission and submitting a dossier to the UN Human Rights Council and Special…
Appearing as sole counsel against Mark Summers QC, Benjamin acted on behalf of the judicial authority in Hungary, successfully resisting an appeal against the order of extradition of a Hungarian national, Attila Imre. Mr Imre’s extradition had been ordered on…
Instructed to prepare legal opinion and report on the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia following the wave of arrests and detentions in September 2017. A copy of the report is here and interview about the report here. The report…
Representing persons on death row in Egypt in proceedings before the African Commission to have their death sentences set aside (Communication 670/17). The application concerns 16 persons sentenced to death by Egyptian courts. The African Commission has ordered provisional measures…
Landmark decision on Romanian prison conditions. Benjamin represented the first Appellant, led by Jonathan Hall QC. The Court found that, following the judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Muršić v…
