Jennifer Wright

Practice Areas

Jennifer specialises in inquests and inquiries, police law, personal injury, and public and administrative law. She is regularly instructed through the Government Legal Department’s ‘Junior Junior’ scheme and in cases touching upon national security and other sensitive matters.

Her clients include police forces, government departments, public authorities, and private individuals. Recent high profile cases include the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, the Brook House Inquiry, the Inquests arising from the Fishmongers’ Hall terrorist attack (as Junior Counsel to the Inquest), and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (Lambeth Children’s Homes Strand).

Jennifer holds a PhD in Philosophy and, before coming to the Bar, taught undergraduate philosophy programmes at King’s College London and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Please visit the 5 Essex Chambers website for Jennifer’s profile, which sets out full details of her practice and relevant work of note.