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Louise Jones

Louise Jones

Profile

Louise's principal interests and experience are as follows:

  • Public law - Louise has considerable experience of a range of public law work, including work with a national security element (she holds DV clearance).   She has spent considerable time involved in complex disclosure exercises in Government litigation, including the 'Guantanamo Bay litigation'.  She also has particular experence of prison law, immigration, the Legal Services Act 2007, public inquiries and inquests.
  • Employment - Louise appears regularly in the employment tribunal acting for and advising both claimants and respondents in a wide range of cases, including all varieties of discrimination and dismissal claims. 
  • Personal injury - Louise acts for both claimants and defendants in personal injury matters.  

Louise has previous experience of crime and family law, and although she no longer accepts instructions directly in these areas, she is able to bring her former experience to bear in cases where particularly public and employment law work requires a knowledge of these areas of law.

Louise was appointed to the Attorney-General's Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (C Panel) in March 2008. 

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

  • 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.
  • Baron Mereworth v Ministry of Justice [2011] EWHC 1589 (Ch), acting for the MOJ in relation to a claim brought by Baron Mereworth seeking a Writ of Summons to enter the House of Lords as a hereditary peer.
  • Willmott v Secretary of State for Justice [2011] EWHC 1109 (Admin), acting for the SSJ in a JR challenge brought by a Category A prisoner seeking re-categorisation and an oral hearing.
  • Al Rawi & others v Security Service & others [2010] EWHC 1496 (QB), led by Rory Phillips QC and Peter Skeleton, this was a judgment in the 'Guantanamo Bay litigation' relating to the disclosure of Guidance documents held by the Defendants.  Louise acted as junior counsel in this litigation for two years.
  • The Nimrod Review: led as junior on behalf of MOD employees in this Inquiry into the loss of the Nimrod MR2 in Afghanistan in September 2006.

Appointments

Appointed as one of five specialist advisors to the Legal Services Board, January 2010

Attorney-General's Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (C Panel)