Jack Anderson

Date of call: 2006

Jack joined Chambers in 2007, following pupillage, and specialises in all areas of public law, planning, employment and local government law.

Jack has appeared before the Asylum & Immigration Tribunal, Social Security Tribunal, Employment Tribunal, SENDIST, Mental Health Review Tribunal, Planning Inspectorate, County Court, Magistrates Court, Crown Court, and has been instructed in High Court proceedings.

Public Law
Jack has acquired public law experience in a variety of areas including education, highways, immigration, mental health, planning, prisons and regulation including experience of judicial review. He has also advised on freedom of information and data protection. He is a contributor to the Administrative Court Digest.

Local Government
Jack has acted for and against local authorities in a wide range of matters. He has acted in relation to housing matters, including housing associations and registered landlords, and has advised on a number of aspects of landlord and tenant law. He has also acted in relation to housing benefit appeals before the First Tier Tribunal. He has advised on miscellaneous matters as local authority powers and procedures under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Jack has also advised on questions of election law including in relation to election petitions. He recently acted with John Hobson QC in an arbitration under section 265 of the Highways Act 1980. He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Local Government Bulletin.

Planning and environmental law
Jack has experience of applications for judicial review of planning decisions and village green inquiries and advice on the creation of public footpaths and the development of public open spaces and commons. Jack has been instructed by both individuals and local authorities in relation to planning matters both at Inquiry (including enforcement appeals) and the High Court. Jack has also acted in the Magistrates court including prosecutions in respect of tree preservation orders and fly-tipping and in relation to planning enforcement and has acted on planning appeals to the Crown Court. He has also advised on questions of environmental law.

Education Law
Jack has gained a wide experience of education law. He has clerked for Independent School Admission Appeal Panels and acted for both parents and schools in relation to exclusion appeals including appeals that raise issues of disability discrimination. He also appears before the SENDIST in relation to both statements of special educational needs and claims of disability discrimination. Jack has spent time on secondment to Southwark Borough Council’s Legal Services department where he advised and acted in relation to special educational needs, disability discrimination, school admissions and exclusions and school organization.

Employment Law
Jack has appeared for both Claimants and Respondents in employment tribunals in England and Scotland in matters concerning unfair dismissal including redundancy, breach of contract, unlawful deduction of wages, discrimination and harassment. During pupillage, Jack also gained experience of disputes concerning equal pay and the territorial scope of equality regulations. He has delivered training on disability discrimination
For six months over 2008 – 2009, Jack acted as a judicial assistant to Lord Justice Keene, during which time he worked on a wide variety of cases before the Court of Appeal including cases in relation to public law, planning law, human rights and immigration as well as private law disputes.

Jack is happy to undertake legal aid work and is keen to maintain a pro bono element to his practise. He has acted and advised pro bono on immigration (including family reunion and the fear of inhuman and degrading treatment), possession proceedings, employment law, social security and education law.

Jack will accept instructions in all areas in which chambers specialises.

EDUCATION
BVC, Very Competent, Inns of Court School of Law, (2006)
BCL, Brasenose College Oxford, (2005)
BA (Law), Emmanuel College Cambridge, Double First (2004)

PRIZES
Vaughan Bevan Prize (Public Law) (Emmanuel College) (2003 and 2004)

MOOTING AND DEBATING
Best Individual Mooter, UK Finals, Jessup International Law Moot (2006)
World Universities Debating Champion, Stellenbosch, (2003)
Winner of several UK and Irish inter-varsity debating competitions

OTHER
Intern at the office of US Senator Edward Kennedy, Summer 2004
Jack was involved with Oxford Pro Bono Publico in drafting a report on secondary offences in UK criminal law for the ICTY

AFFILIATIONS
South Eastern Circuit
Administrative Law Bar Association

CLERKS EMAIL
Daniel Perry and Anthony King