Natasha Jackson

Practice Areas

Natasha is ranked as a leading barrister in her specialism of public, administrative and human rights law. She also practices in related areas of environmental and planning law.

She is a public law barrister, with a practice focused on human rights, administrative law, constitutional law and immigration. She has appeared in cases in the Supreme Court, Privy Council and Court of Appeal (led and unled) and has significant advocacy and public inquiry experience.

Natasha is regularly instructed in high-profile and test cases for various individual claimants, NGOs, companies, regulatory clients and Government, and is appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel.

She acts as counsel to the Iraq Fatality Investigations, an Article 2 inquiry chaired by Dame Anne Rafferty into civilian deaths in Iraq involving British forces. She has led the counsel team since 2021 and questioned witnesses at the live-streamed public hearings.

Natasha has a strong international dimension to her work. In addition to regular instructions in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Privy Council, she advises (often pro bono) on various issues under private international, international humanitarian and human rights law. In 2023, she acted as a Trial Observer of the Bar Human Rights Committee in the Israeli military courts in the Occupied West Bank.