Jonathan Moffett KC

Practice Areas

Jonathan is a specialist public law silk with a practice that has an emphasis on the fields of regulatory law, local government law, education law, environmental law, and human rights and civil liberties. He has a particular expertise in the interface between public law and human rights, and he has led on human rights cases in the Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. Jonathan acts for individuals, charities, companies, NGOs, central and local government bodies, regulators and other public bodies. Jonathan is a co-author of a leading practitioners’ text book on judicial review, he edits the sections on judicial review in the White Book, he is on the Welsh Government’s panel of Queen’s Counsel and the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s A panel of counsel, and he is regularly instructed by central government departments on some of their most difficult cases. Jonathan sits as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Administrative Court and as a Recorder in the Crown Court, and he is also Chair of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association.