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Adam Wagner
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Adam is an experienced human rights and public lawyer with a strong civil law background. He has acted at all levels including in the Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights.
He has extensive expertise in public law, human rights, prison law, immigration and asylum, inquests, medical law, mental health law, and actions against the police. He has acted in six public inquiries and is currently Specialist Advisor to the Joint Committee on Human Rights Covid-19 Inquiry.
Adam is well-known for his human rights advocacy work. He founded both the multi-award winning human rights charity EachOther and the acclaimed UK Human Rights Blog, and is a sought after legal commentator on social media (@adamwagner1), television and radio. He set up and hosts the Better Human Podcast.
Adam regularly lectures on human rights law and is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Goldsmiths University. He is the Consultant Editor of the 2020 Prison Law edition of Halsbury’s Laws of England. In 2019 he was appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission ‘A’ Panel of Counsel.
He was shortlisted for Human Rights Junior of the Year in the 2020 Legal 500 Awards. He has won the Plain English Campaign’s Communicator award for his work on RightsInfo and has previously been shortlisted for Human Rights Lawyer of the Year at the Liberty Awards and Legal Personality of the Year at the Solicitors Journal Awards.
Memberships
Administrative Law Bar Association
Liberty
Education
Columbia University – MA, Political Science, Pass
Oxford University, St Annes College – Politics, Philosophy and Economics, BA & MA Oxon, 1st Class Hons.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Inquests and inquiries
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Adam Wagner –Doughty Street Chambers ‘Adam is a good organiser, he gives clear advice and is not afraid of giving realistic advice to clients.’
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Adam Wagner –Doughty Street Chambers ‘An exceptional barrister who is a star of the future.‘
Doughty Street Chambers is regarded by many as ‘exceptional when it comes to human rights‘, and is equally adept at handling complex administrative and public law matters. Edward Fitzgerald KC has ‘encyclopaedic knowledge‘ of human rights law, and successfully represented the claimant in R (Quaye) v Secretary of State for Justice, a case concerning the impact of s.128 of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 on the provision of sentence reviews to murderers who, owing to the fact they committed the offence under the age of eighteen, are sentenced to detention at His Majesty’s pleasure rather than life imprisonment. Jude Bunting KC is ‘a work of art in the court room‘, and the ‘very astute‘ Adam Wagner is ‘an outstanding lawyer‘.