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Louise Jones

Louise Jones

Profile

Louise has a broad practice which combines both public and common law.   Her practice has a particular emphasis on human rights, terrorism, prison and immigration law, and she also has experience of public inquiries and judicial review challenges in the public inquiry context.    As well as appearing regularly in court, Louise frequently advises in complex matters and/or large-scale disclosure exercises which involve several Government Departments and national security issues.  Louise holds DV clearance.

Louise's practice also includes employment law and she appears regularly in the employment tribunal on a range of matters including lengthy discrimination claims and employment cases raising issues of national security.   She also carries out personal injury and other common law work, and in particular has experience of civil claims for damages in cases that also raise a range of public law issues.

 

Education

Cardiff High School

St Hilda's College, Oxford University - MA (Modern History); M.St. (Historical Research)

City University, London - CPE & BVC (awarded Harmsworth Scholarship from Middle Temple).

Notable Cases

  • Secretary of State for the Home Department v (1) CC (2) CF [2012] EWHC 2837 (Admin), led by James Eadie QC and Andrew O'Connor on behalf of the SSHD in this Control Order and TPIM case which additionally raised allegations of an abuse of process. 
  • Bourke v Secretary of State for Justice [2012] EWHC 4041 (Admin), acting on behalf of the SSJ successfully defending the SSJ's decision not to grant a Category A prisoner an oral hearing of his categorisation review.
  • Noureddine v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012]  EWHC 1707 (Admin), appearing on behalf of the SSHD, successfully defending a period of immigration detention of in excess of 38 months.
  • Associated Newspapers Ltd v Lord Justice Leveson (As Chairman of the Leveson Inquiry) [2012] EWHC 57 (Admin), led by David Sherborne on behalf of the Core Participant Victims, an Interested Party in this Judicial Review challenge to the Inquiry's decision to admit in principle anonymous evidence by journalists.

Appointments

  • Attorney General's Junior Counsel to the Crown B Panel.
  • Welsh Government's Panel of Junior Counsel B Panel.