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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 16:18:24+00:00

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Rory is recommended by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners in six practice areas: administrative and public law, professional discipline and regulatory law, data protection, immigration and education.
Rory has spent 12 years on the Attorney General’s panels, including 4 years on the A panel. Rory has acted in twenty-eight cases in the Court of Appeal, five in the Supreme Court and more than a hundred in the High Court. He is the co-author of the Oxford University Press textbook, Detention Under the Immigration Acts: Law and Practice and he wrote the chapter on appeals and judicial review in the 8th and 9th editions of the LexisNexis textbook, Disciplinary and Regulatory Proceedings.
Rory is recommended for administrative and public law by Legal 500. He has a wide range of experience in administrative & public law generally across several fields, not just immigration and regulatory law but also prison law, healthcare, mental health and community care. He acts for individuals, Government departments and other public authorities, including local authorities and Primary Care Trusts.
Rory is recommended for professional discipline and regulatory law by Legal 500. He is on the GMC’s panel and has frequently represented and advised both regulators and registrants in High Court appeals and judicial reviews. He has acted for and against the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the High Court and SDT in numerous high profile cases, including the prosecution of Kamran Akram, the CEO of Asons. Hehas appeared for the Secretary of State for Education (and, before it was abolished, the General Teaching Council for England) in more than ten High Court appeals against decisions to prohibit teachers. He has also represented the the National Health Services Litigation Authority, the Commission for Social Care Inspection (as it then was), the Care Quality Commission, the Pensions Regulator, Primary Care Trusts, dentists, pharmacists, psychotherapists, teachers and nurses in judicial reviews and professional conduct proceedings. He wrote the chapter on appeals and judicial review in the the 8th and 9th editions of the LexisNexis textbook, Disciplinary and Regulatory Proceedings. Recently Rory appeared for the GMC in GMC v Hayat, the leading Court of Appeal authority on whether evidence of ill-health requires professional disciplinary tribunals to adjourn a hearing.
Rory has been recommended, since 2011, by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners as an expert in the field of immigration. He has appeared in 27 immigration cases before the Court of Appeal. He has advised and represented the government in many of the key cases concerning immigration detention and Article 8 and deportation.
Rory is recommended as an expert in Information Rights and Data Protection in both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners (where he is ranked in Band 1 for juniors). He frequently advises and represents public authorities and data controllers in relation to the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Environmental Information Regulations 2011 and the GDPR. He often appears in appeals to the First-tier and Upper Tribunal against decisions of the Information Commissioner.
Rory is recommended in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for Education. He has appeared for the Secretary of State for Education (and, before it was abolished, the General Teaching Council for England) in more than ten High Court appeals against decisions to prohibit teachers. He has also appeared on behalf of teachers in professional conduct proceedings. Recently, he successfully persuaded a professional conduct panel that it did not have jurisdiction to consider the case against a teacher who had not taught for over a decade.
He has also acted in judicial reviews and appeals against decisions concerning children with Special Educational Needs and school closures. He was lead counsel for the Department for Education in a recent judicial review of the Government’s policy of providing free full-time childcare for the children of working parents.
Rory has a particular expertise in human rights law – he worked for nine months at the European Court of Human Rights, drafting judgments and decisions in numerous British and Irish cases, and lectured on behalf of the Council of Europe and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Strasbourg, Armenia and Azerbaijan. He has also advised in relation to constitutional claims in jurisdictions with constitutions similar to the European Convention on Human Rights, for example the Turks and Caicos Islands. He represented the government in the leading Court of Appeal case to consider and interpret the Maslov principles laid down by the European Court of Human Rights and has appeared in several other Court of Appeal cases concerning Article 8. He has also appeared in numerous inquests where he has advised and made representations on the effect of Article 2. He is currently junior for the Secretary of State in AM (Zimbabwe) v SSHD, a Supreme Court case which will decide whether to follow Paposhvili v Belgium – i.e. when it breaches Article 3 to return a seriously ill person to a country where they will not receive the same medical treatment.
Rory has represented clients in the health sector across a range of disciplines: in relation to FOIA requests and data protection principles; in bringing and defending judicial reviews; in regulatory proceedings etc. For example, he recently represented the Secretary of State for Health in a judicial review of a decision to close an A&E department and acted for the NHS Commissioning Board in a FOIA appeal concerning the scores given by the Kennedy Panel.
ST (Eritrea) v Secretary of State for the Home Department  UKSC 12.
AP v Secretary of State for the Home Department  UKSC 26.
AL (Serbia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (Rudi) v Secretary of State for the Home Department  UKHL 42.
R (National Grid Gas plc) v Environment Agency  UKHL 30.
R (Akpinar) v Upper Tribunal  EWCA Civ 937.
NS (Kosovo) v SSHD  EWCA Civ 408.
G1 v Secretary of State for the Home Department  EWCA Civ 867.
FM v Secretary of State for the Home Department  EWCA Civ 807.
Abdi & Khalaf v Secretary of State for the Home Department  EWCA Civ 242.
KH (Sudan) et al. v Secretary of State for the Home Department  EWCA Civ 887.
JB (Sudan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department  EWCA Civ 766.
RA v Secretary of State for the Home Department  EWCA Civ 1210.
BK (Democratic Republic Of Congo) v Secretary Of State For The Home Department  EWCA Civ 1322.
QY v SSHD  EWHC 3072 (Admin).

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