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Oliver Sanders KC KC

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Position

Oliver Sanders KC has a wide experience and expertise in public law and human rights, including judicial reviews, damages claims and statutory appeals; information rights, including data protection, freedom of information, breach of confidence and misuse of private information; national security and extremism; inquests and inquiries; contempt of court; and the Equality Act 2010.

He is a member of the Bar Pro Bono Scheme and the Inner Temple Advocacy Training Programme and has given lectures to various government and non-government clients, the Justice / Sweet and Maxwell FOI Conference and the ALBA Summer Conference.

Career

Call: 1995; KC: 2017; Inner Temple.

Government Legal Service (Treasury Solicitor’s Department and Home Office) 1997 – 2004; One Crown Office Row since 2004; appointed to Attorney General’s B Panel of junior counsel to the Crown (London, Civil and EU) in 2005, the FOI sub-panel in 2009 and the A Panel in 2012; contributor to ‘Halsbury’s Laws’ vol 29(1) ‘Local Government’: Coppel ‘Information Rights’ (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th eds): contributor to ‘Judicial Review’.

Languages

French.

Memberships

ALBA; HRLA; Bar Pro Bono Scheme.

Education

Adams’ Grammar School, Newport, Shropshire; Queen Mary College, London (1993 LLB); CLE ICSL (1994 BVC); St Anne’s College, Oxford (1995 BCL).

Leisure

Books, cricket, football, music.