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About
Provided by Tessa Gregory
Practice Areas
Tessa is a Partner and an experienced litigator specialising in international and domestic human rights and environmental law. She conducts challenging high profile public law cases across diverse areas such as social welfare, human rights, refugee, wildlife and environmental law. She represents a wide variety of clients including individuals, MPs and NGOs. Tessa has been at the forefront of challenges to the Government’s welfare reforms and refugee policies and she currently represents a number of Afghans seeking an Article 2 compliant investigation into the deaths of their family members who they allege were murdered by British Special Forces.
Career
Tessa joined Leigh Day in 2014 from another human rights firm. In 2011 Tessa was shortlisted for the Peter Duffy Young Human Rights Lawyer of the Year award; in 2013 she was named The Times' Lawyer of the Week; and in 2014 she featured in The Lawyer’s annual Hot 100 list. In 2018 she was named Times Lawyer of the Week again for her work obtaining six refugee families’ entry to the UK after having been stuck on a British military base in Cyprus for 20 years.