London Bar
Administrative law and human rights
Leading silk4Adam Straw KC –Doughty Street Chambers 'He's a strategic marvel. He has outstanding judgement and knows just how far to push his submissions without losing the ear of the court.'
Doughty Street Chambers
Barristers
Adam Straw KC
Doughty Street Chambers, London
- Phone020 7404 1313
- Email[email protected]
- Profilewww.doughtystreet.co.uk
Work Department
Actions Against the Police and Public Authorities
Business Crime and Investigations
Inquests and Public Inquiries
Data Protection and Information Law
Administrative & Public Law
Children's Rights Group
Position
Adam practices in judicial review, human rights and civil claims against public authorities. He has experience of a wide range of fields, including discrimination, police, prisons, environmental challenges, social welfare, terrorism, children’s rights, immigration and trafficking.
He has acted in important recent public law challenges involving the right to life, abortion, deprivation of citizenship, open justice, inquests, assisted suicide, data protection, pensions and welfare benefits.
Career
Year of call: 2004; Year of silk: 2021.
Adam was ranked in band 1 by Chambers and Partners 2020 in four categories: administrative & public law, inquests and public inquiries, police law, and civil liberties and human rights.
Adam is an author of Discrimination in Public Law (LAG), Sweet & Maxwell’s Human Rights Practice, and Inquests – A Practitioner’s Guide (LAG). He was previously awarded Chambers & Partners human rights and public law junior of the year, and is called to the Bar in Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Memberships
Member of steering committee of Inquest Lawyers Group Administrative Law Bar Association Mental Health Lawyers Association Child Poverty Action Group
Mentions
London Bar
Immigration (including business immigration)
Leading silk2Adam Straw KC – Doughty Street Chambers ‘Adam is an outstanding lawyer. A really first-rate barrister with outstanding legal research skills.‘
London Bar
Inquests and inquiries
Leading silk4Adam Straw KC – Doughty Street Chambers ‘Adam is a very astute and persuasive advocate. Never afraid of a novel argument.'
London Bar
Police law (claimant)
Leading silk3Adam Straw KC – Doughty Street Chambers 'Adam is excellent: one of the best claimant silks out there. He has a beautifully understated style, never pushing too far but gaining the ear of the court with his reasonable and well-focused submissions. A really stylish advocate.'