London Bar
Education
HALL OF FAME2Aileen McColgan KC – 11KBW ‘Aileen has an encyclopaedic knowledge and really in-depth understanding of the law of equality and discrimination as applicable to schools.’
Aileen McColgan
- Phone0207 632 8500
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Position
Specialist in administrative and public, employment, education, election and information law. Aileen has a particular interest in discrimination/ equality as well as in human rights law, higher education-related work and investigations.
Education
Educated Thornhill College Derry; Cambridge (Trinity College), and Edinburgh University
Publications include "Discrimination, Equality and the Law" (Hart 2014) and (with S Hannett and E Prochaska) LAG's 2017 "Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination in Schools: a legal handbook". Aileen has contributed chapters to many other works including G Millar and A Scott's, "Newsgathering: Law, Regulation and the Public Interest" (OUP, 2016), "Livingstone, Owen and MacDonald on Prison Law" (OUP, 2015) and Clayton and Tomlinson "The Law of Human Rights' (2009). She is the author of a wide range of other academic and practitioner-orientated books and articles on areas from criminal and criminal evidence law to individual and collective employment law via human rights law, data protection law and the law relating to civil procedure. The third edition of her Discrimination: Text, Cases and Materials is forthcoming in 2021, with Eddie Bruce Jones as co-author.
Mentions
London Bar
Employment
HALL OF FAME4Aileen McColgan KC – 11KBW ‘An expert on discrimination law, and her no- nonsense approach gives confidence to the client.’