McCue Jury & Partners
Client SatisfactionBoutique firm McCue Jury & Partners impresses with its ‘innovative and confident handling’ of novel human rights claims, victim-led group actions, and public-interest litigation. Public and private sector clients ranging from governments and international bodies to NGOs, corporations, and individuals find assurance in the team’s expert understanding of transitional justice and conflict resolution, and its undertaking of challenging cases against rogue regimes, human rights abusers, and terrorists and their sponsors. The stars of the operation are founding partners Jason McCue, who exercises his ’mind like a corkscrew’ in the strategic use of lawfare to drive justice and societal change, and Matthew Jury, who is ‘determined and dedicated’ in advancing the rights of clients in domestic and multijurisdictional public-interest litigation. Jack Beeston is a ’standout’ in victim-led group actions.
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Testimonials
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- ‘What makes McCue Jury unique is their profound empathy and personal connection with clients. They impressed me with their innovative and confident handling of my case. Their readiness to intervene at the highest levels showed their advanced strategic capabilities.’
‘The whole team is very professional, always keeps you updated with regards to what is happening, and is happy to discuss any detail with you no matter how small.’
‘This is a boutique firm acting for clients in high-profile claims. The partners are exceptionally client friendly and supportive throughout the litigation process. ’
‘Matthew Jury is dedicated to his clients and goes above and beyond what they could expect in normal solicitor-client relationships.’
‘Jack Beeston is a standout. He is diligent and dedicated. Clients are lucky to be so well looked after here, often in cases that are legally difficult and complex.’
‘Jason McCue has a mind like a corkscrew, able to think his way in the back door and through the attic of a problem that has barriers that have blocked everyone else.’
‘Matthew Jury is determined and dedicated in driving the firm’s cases forward and helping with fundraising.’
‘Oli Troen has been a thorough, committed point-man in charge of the day-to-day.’
Key clients
- Ali Hamza
- Government of Somaliland
- Hostages of BA flight 149
- Victims of IRA terrorism
- John Murray
- UK Nuclear Testing veterans, their families, and indigenous persons
- Rohingya victims of genocide
- Somaliland Matters Limited
- Ukrainian victims of Wagner Group
- Payback4Ukraine
- Victims of Andrew Tate
- Victims of Libya-sponsored IRA terrorism
- Whistleblower Aid
- Ukrainian children kidnapped by the Russian Federation
- Private individuals enforcing Ukrainian war-time judgments against the Russian Federation
Work highlights
- Represented four of Andrew Tate’s alleged victims bringing claims in the High Court for personal injury and psychiatric harm resulting from a number of alleged violent and sexual physical assaults, alongside a pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour against women.
- Advising on a broad range of lawfare legal actions against the Russian Federation and the private entities which support and facilitate it.
- Represented Nuclear Test veterans, their families, and indigenous persons in a renewed legal action brought against the Ministry of Defence for harm suffered because of their involvement in the UK’s nuclear testing programme in the 1950s and 60s.
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jason McCue, Matthew Jury