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Daniel Squires KC

Daniel Squires KC

Position

Practice encompasses national security, financial sanctions, prison law, police powers, social welfare law education, discrimination, privacy, EU law and commercial/regulatory judicial review. Involved in over a dozen European Court of Human Rights and Supreme Court cases including on financial sanctions, prison segregation, interception of communications, airport stops under the Terrorism Act, religious freedoms in the workplace, race discrimination in school admissions, and the retention of DNA and maintenance of databases by the police. .

Career

Called 1998; QC 2016. On the A panel of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and before taking silk was a member of the Treasury A Panel.

Education

Christ’s College, Cambridge (BA first class); Harvard Law School (LLM); London School of Economics (MSc).

Mentions

London Bar

Administrative law and human rights

Leading silk3
Daniel Squires KC –Matrix Chambers ‘Daniel is an extremely impressive advocate, who argues extremely complex legal cases with ease.’
London Bar

Education

Leading silk2
Daniel Squires KC – Matrix Chambers 'A huge brain- very analytical. Daniel is instructed for complex investigations involving analysis of how the Equality Act applies in school cases and is really excellent on rights colliding cases.'