Jim Duffy has extensive experience across clinical negligence, inquests and inquiries, personal injury, human rights, tax and employment and discrimination.
He is a member of the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel (‘B’ Panel) and has particular experience of prison law and employment claims, acting on both sides.
Called 2012; Inner Temple. Judicial assistant to Lord Reed and Lord Hodge, Justices of the Supreme Court 2013-14, returning to full-time practice in August 2014. Non-practising solicitor (dual-qualified: Scotland, England & Wales). Solicitor at Public Interest Lawyers 2009-12, taking judicial review cases on behalf of Iraqi civilians alleging ill-treatment and unlawful killing by British forces and representing them in ongoing investigations by the UK state. Also represented: the families of British soldiers killed during the Iraq War; jobseekers required to work for free at Poundland and elsewhere as part of the government’s ‘Back to Work’ schemes; asylum seekers and their children detained unlawfully at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre; Kenyan nationals accused of involvement in the 2010 ‘World Cup’ bombings in Uganda. Council of Europe/European Union – combating impunity and the effective investigation of ill-treatment: research assistant in the preparation of a country report on Ukraine (2009), Kiev. Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, trainee solicitor 2007-09; intern at Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees 2007; Geneva (University of Toronto Fellowship). University of Toronto International Human Rights Clinic, student advocate 2006-07; University of Glasgow, tutor in Sources and Institutions of Scots Law and researcher 2005-06.
French (fluent).
Universite Aix-Marseille III (2004 Erasmus programme); University of Glasgow (2005 LLB (Hons) Law with French Language (First Class), Dr John MacCormick, Prize for the Most Distinguished Graduate in Law); Glasgow Graduate School of Law (2006 Diploma in Legal Practice – Criminal Advocacy Prize); University of Toronto (2007 LLM – Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar).
Guitar, football, running, diving, travel.