We are delighted to announce that Doughty Street Chambers has been validated as a ‘Disability Confident Leader’. We are proud to be the first barristers chambers to achieve this status. Read here: www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/doughty...

Doughty Street Chambers is delighted to have been shortlisted at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2025 for Human Rights and Public Law - Set of the Year and Media, Privacy, Information Law - Set of the Year!

Jury finds systemic failings and unlawful killing in the inquest of 14-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz detained under Mental Health Act. Tim Moloney KC and Alison Seaman represented Ruth's family in the inquest instructed by Charlotte Haworth Hird at @bhattmurphy.bsky.social.

The inquest concludes into the death in 2022 of Ruth Szymankiewicz, 14, who was meant to be under strict observation at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire

UK government may have breached young soldier’s right to life, coroner concludes

Great to see @mhailbronner.bsky.social @rjjoconnell.bsky.social @saracanduzzi.bsky.social @esrademir.bsky.social @dzehtsiarou.bsky.social @aliseaman.bsky.social & ors at the ECHR workshop @uoelawschool.bsky.social. Thanks to Cormac Mac Amhlaigh & Mikael Madsen for organising & hosting.

And we’re off! Thanks to Cormac Mac Amhlaigh for hosting the ‘Taking Ambivalence Seriously’ workshop on the ECtHR in the beautiful Raeburn Room at Edinburgh Law School @uoelawschool.bsky.social

Migrants and Mental Health Disability All-Day Conference: Best practices for immigration and court of protection professionals - 15 Nov 2024. Register your place now as space is limited! #Immigration #courtofprotection