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Marina Wheeler KC has a broad practice in public and human rights law with a special focus on detention, armed conflict and national security. The reconfiguration of hospital services has also featured heavily in Marina’s public law caseload, allowing her to develop expertise in the requirements of a fair consultation and application of the Public Sector Equality Duty. Marina is an accredited Mediator and handles investigations, especially those involving the workplace and the healthcare sector, building on her years of experience litigating employment disputes. In addition to employment and public law work, Marina has expertise in complex family law cases, often involving a human rights or cross-border element.

Call: 1987; KC: 2016; Grays’ Inn; practised at Stanbrook & Hooper European Community Lawyers, Brussels 1990-94; ‘Civil Practitioner Guide to the Human Rights Act 1998’ Old Bailey Press 2000); contributor to ‘Human Rights and Judicial Review: Cases in Context Bulletin’ Butterworths; appointed to Attorney General’s List (B panel) 2004; presently (A Panel). Member of Bar Disciplinary Panel.

Marina recently returned to full time practice following the publication of her family memoir, ‘The Lost Homestead’. She writes, and commentates, regularly about legal issues.

French.

Bar European Group; Human Rights Lawyers Association; Administrative Law Bar Association; Employment Law Bar Association.

Bedales School, Hampshire; Fitzwilliam.