Monckton Chambers

Door tenant

Jeremy has had considerable experience in litigating and advising on European and international human rights law since coming to the Bar under the exceptional route for academics of experience and distinction. He had previously taught human rights, public international law and public law at the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, Mauritius and Stockholm.

Jeremy has appeared before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in both individual and inter-State proceedings. Most recently, he has acted in the admissibility proceedings in Slovenia v. Croatia (concerning the novel point of whether a State can use the European Convention system to protect the rights of a bank that has been already held not to be entitled to bring proceedings on its own behalf) and the Proceedings under Article 46 § 4 of the Convention in the Case of ilgar Mammadov v. Azerbaijan.

In addition to litigation, Jeremy advises on the compatibility with European and international human rights standards of legislative proposals being considered in a wide range of countries. In particular, he has advised on the adoption of criminal and criminal procedure codes and legislation concerned with discrimination, freedom of assembly and of association, hate speech, property restitution and prosecution services.

Jeremy is a visiting professor at Central European University and chairs the Expert Council on NGO Law of the Council of Europe’s Conference on International Non-Governmental Organisations.

Called 2005, Inner Temple; research fellow Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge 1975-78; lecturer University of Birmingham 1978-89; senior lecturer 1989-2000; reader 2000-06; visiting professor Central European University 1997 to date. Publications of note: Jeremy has published widely on human rights and public law. He is the editor of Butterworths human rights cases and consultant editor, Commonwealth Human Rights Law Digest and he was assistant editor of the Civil Justice Quarterly (1982-2002).

Jeremy has a Visiting Professorship at the Central European University in Budapest and teaches on the Human Rights Masters Programme at the University of Oxford.He is also Chair of the Expert Council on NGO Law of the Council of Europe’s Conference on INGOs He was the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (2010-13) and the Chair of INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (2005-14).

Jeremy read law at the University of Birmingham and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, obtaining first class honours degrees. He also studied at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg and obtained its Diploma in the International and Comparative Law of Human Rights. Jeremy has an Honorary Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham.