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About
Provided by Zoe Gannon
Practice Areas
Zoe is an established junior that practises across the related fields of administrative and public law, regulatory, procurement, human rights, education, health and community care as well as information and data protection. She acts for both claimants and respondents and is very experienced in dealing with sensitive matters involving complex issues law and policy. She is regularly instructed in the high court and appeal courts as sole counsel and as part of larger teams, including applications to Strasbourg, with extensive experience of claims under the European Convention on Human Rights. Recently this has included claims arising from Government decision making during the Covid Pandemic, benefits challenges, and other conduct cases. In the field of education Zoe acts for students, schools, FE Colleges and Universities in a range of courts and tribunals. She has a particular expertise in matters of discrimination and in transgender issues, and is frequently asked to advise on cases involving allegations of sexual abuse. She appeared as sole Counsel in the Upper Tribunal on the leading case on the FTT powers against Independent Schools: The Proprietor of Ashdown House School v JKL [2019] HS/1322/2019 (20 August 2019). In data protection cases Zoe has acted both for and against the Information Commissioner in six figure monetary penalty cases as well as other bodies in alleged data breach claims.
Career
First Class Honours Degree from Warwick University in 2007. Bar Professional Training Course (Outstanding). Called to the Bar 2014. EHRC Panel of Counsel and Attorney General C Panel of Counsel.
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