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Daniel Clarke

Daniel Clarke

Work Department

Housing, Social Welfare & Property Actions Against the Police and Public Authorities Community Care and Health Administrative & Public Law

Position

Daniel has a wide range of experience across private law, public law and human rights work.

Daniel has a wide range of experience across private law, public law and human rights work. His main areas of practice are housing, social welfare and community care, with a particular focus on discrimination, public law and human rights issues. He also undertakes work in civil actions against the police and other public authorities, and in media law.

Career

He is regularly instructed to represent clients in claims for judicial review in the High Court, as well as parties and interveners in a range of other proceedings from the County Court to the Supreme Court.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Daniel worked as a paralegal in a number of leading public law and human rights solicitors’ firms and as a judicial assistant to Sir John Thomas PQBD at the Court of Appeal.

Memberships

Housing Law Practitioners Association Housing and Immigration Group Police Action Lawyers Group

Education

BA Archaeology (University of Cambridge), First Class MPhil Social Anthropology (University of Cambridge), Distinction Graduate Diploma in Law (BPP), Outstanding Bar Professional Training Course (BPP), Outstanding

Mentions

London Bar

Social housing

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Daniel Clarke – Doughty Street Chambers ‘Daniel is a leading light in the area of capacity to litigate and has lead the way on trying to clarify procedure in this field. He is also an incredibly thoughtful and knowledgeable barrister with a very calm yet incisive demeanor when on the stand. Clients always feel reassured by his calmness and compassion.’