Julia is Assistant to Inspector Baroness Heather Hallett in the Iraq Fatality Investigations, which were established in response to the High Court’s May 2013 decision in R (Ali Zaki Mousa and others) v Secretary of State for Defence [2013] EWHC 1412 (Admin) to discharge the State’s obligations under art.2 ECHR. More information can be found here.
Before joining Chambers, Julia worked in the Department for Legal Affairs and Human Rights at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and spent time as a Volunteer Attorney at the California Appellate Project, drafting the Habeas Corpus appeals of indigent defendants facing the death penalty in California, USA.
Julia is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) panel of counsel.
Notable Public Law & Human Rights cases
R(Sajjad) v SSHD [2019] EWCA Civ 720
Junior counsel to Rowan Pennington Benton in appeal to the Court of Appeal regarding the permissible forms of investment as a Tier 1(Entrepreneur) under the PBS
Kulykov and ors v Ukraine (App No. 5114/09) [2017] ECHR 69
Assisted the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) bringing a case on behalf of 12 Ukrainian judges who had been dismissed from their posts. The ECtHR upheld their complaints that their dismissals constituted a breach of their rights to a fair trial (art.6 ECHR) and to respect for their private and family life (Art.8 ECHR);
R(Khan) v SSHD [2017] 4 WLR 156
Junior counsel to Rowan Pennington Benton in successful appeal to the Court of Appeal dealing with alternative remedies and discretionary relief in judicial review proceedings
August v The Queen (In the Court of Appeal of Belize Criminal Appeal No 22 of 2012)
Assisted local counsel (with James Guthrie QC and Rowan Pennington Benton) in successful appeal which found that the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole was unconstitutional as a violation of s.6 (right to a fair hearing) and s.7 (prohibition on torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the Belize Constitution.
