Administrative and Public law
Administrative and Public Law covers a vast area of specialities, reflecting the many different ways in which local and central government impacts on the lives of citizens. The common thread is that public bodies have defined purposes, limited powers, and importantly, duties to act fairly and reasonably in all their dealings with the public.
3PB are experts in interpreting statutory schemes, understanding the limits of powers, advising on how public bodies are required to act to comply with their duties under the Human Rights Act 1998, the Data Protection Act 1998, international conventions to which the United Kingdom is a party, and the increasingly important Public Sector Equality Duties under the Equality Act 2010.
Our barristers' experience focuses in local government, healthcare and social welfare and on public law issues connected with Chambers’ specialisms in other areas – regulation of the professions (especially medical and accounting), education law, the rights of special needs children and their parents and discrimination law. This particularly involves work in the Court of Protection (and the High Court sitting in the COP jurisdiction), in relation to decisions about medical treatment, end of life decisions, community care, mental health law and education law.
3PB presently has 10 appointees to the Attorney General’s Panel of Junior Counsel; click here to view the various lists in London and regionally. Some members have extensive experience of handling public international law.
Our dedicated and experienced clerking team provides a 24 hour service, 365 days a year to arrange for urgent advice and representation from members of the Public & Regulatory team, and prides itself on dealing with emergency orders and out of hours applications efficiently. The group's practice management team can be reached here.
Head of Administrative and Public Law Team
Mathew Gullick KC
Email: [email protected] Telephone: 020 7583 8055
Our Public and Regulatory Barristers...
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Two of 3PB’s public law barristers, William Hansen and Matthew Wyard, pictured left to right, both appeared in the important appeal of THTN v Secretary of State for the Home Department (“THTN”) which was handed down on 20th October 2023. The appeal has clarified what an appellant must demonstrate in Article 3 medical claims following the Supreme Court’s decision in AM(Zimbabwe) [2020] UKSC 17 (“AM (Zimbabwe)”). The key point of principle arising in THTN concerned...
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Chambers is delighted to announce employment and national security law barrister Mark Green's promotion to the Attorney-General’s London A Panel for a period of five years, commencing on Friday 1st September 2023. He had been on the London B Panel since September 2019. Mark Green, pictured here, frequently appears for both claimants and respondents, dealing with claims in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal, High Court and County Court. Mark has a...
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3PB (3 Paper Buildings) Alice de Coverley(pictured here), a specialist education, equality, and public law barrister with the national chambers, has been named as Lawyer of the Week by The Times today. This follows her involvement in the widely-reported case of Mermaids v (1) the Charity Commission and (2) LGB Alliance [2023] UKFTT 563 (GRC). Alice acted successfully for the LGB Alliance and was instructed by Peter Daly of Doyle Clayton. The charity’s legal defence...
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On Wednesday 5th July, 3PB's public and employment law silk Mathew Gullick KC, pictured here, appeared (with James Strachan KC of 39 Essex Chambers) as counsel for the UK Government at a hearing before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The case of Nealon & Hallam v United Kingdom concerns claims that refusals of compensation under the statutory compensation scheme for miscarriages of justice in England and Wales involved...
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3PB's public law barrister Matthew Wyard, pictured here, has been appointed to the committee of the West Midlands Court of Protection Practitioners Association (CoPPA). The West Midlands CoPPA committee was established in 2018, with the aim of bringing together the thriving network of Court of Protection practitioners in the region. The network offers a range of seminars to cover both property and financial affairs, as well as health and welfare matters. The group also likes...
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Four 3PB education and public law barristers (pictured top left to bottom right) acted for Ofsted throughout various strands of the IICSA Inquiry, which was chaired by Professor Alexis Jay OBE. Mathew Gullick KC Alice de Coverley Faizul Azman Gabriel Adedeji 3PB reported in March this year on the earlier findings from IICSA of "shocking failings" and "blatant hypocrisy" in the way major UK religious groups handle child sex abuse allegations and that some were...
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3PB public law barrister Matthew Wyard, pictured here, recently acted in a judicial review for the claimant in R(on the application of EP, through her litigation friend MAP) v Norfolk County Council and successfully secured home to school transport for them, as well as an agreed quashing of multiple decisions refusing this support. The claimant, EP, is a disabled child with physical and mental disabilities. At secondary transfer she secured a place at T School....
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The Supreme Court has today, Wednesday 2 February 2022, given judgment refusing the claimants’ appeals in R (O and Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] UKSC 3, the high-profile appeal concerning the fees charged to children applying to register as British citizens. 3PB's public law and regulatory barrister William Hansen, pictured here, represented the Home Secretary. The Appellants, led by the campaigning group...
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3PB education and public law expert Alice de Coverley acted as Junior Counsel for Ofsted, led by Sarah Hannett QC, in this major public inquiry. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has found "shocking failings" and "blatant hypocrisy" in the way major UK religious groups handle child sex abuse allegations. IICSA concluded some religious organisations in England and Wales were "morally failing" children. IICSA set this all out in its report arising from their...
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3PB Barristers offers warmest congratulations to our colleague Sunyana Sharma who has been appointed an Assistant Coroner for Hampshire. Sunyana’s appointment is further recognition of her expertise in inquests and coronial law. Sunyana Sharma is a regulatory and inquest barrister who specialises in clinical deaths, deaths at sea, fatal accidents at work and deaths in care home settings. She provides added value to cases as a result of her previous practice area of personal injury in which...
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Congratulations to barrister William Hansen, one of 3PB’s senior specialist counsel in public law, property law and commercial litigation, who has been re-appointed for another five years to the Attorney General’s (AG's) A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. William, pictured here, regularly acts for a variety of government departments and agencies including the Secretary of State for the Home Department, HMRC, MoJ, the NCA and the Secretary of State for Business. He routinely...
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3PB’s public and education law specialist Matthew Wyard joins seven other 3PB barristers on the Attorney General’s (AG’s) panel of counsel including A panel members of soon-to-be QC Mathew Gullick and fellow public and regulatory barrister William Hansen. In total, 3PB has 13 barristers across the AG’s London, Regional, Public International Law and Junior Junior panels. The Attorney General’s panel of counsel consists of counsel who undertake civil and EU work for all government departments....
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