Our barristers are well equipped to provide prisoners’ legal services, representing a prisoner’s rights to early release, parole, and access to training courses, ensuring the discretionary power of the state is not unlawfully exercised to breach said rights.

What is Prison Law?

Prison law pertains to the rights, lives and expectations of prisoners throughout their incarceration. With an ever-increasing prison population and the variety of existing sentence types, clients can often have complex prison law needs.

Prison Law and St Pauls Chambers

St Pauls has a strong team of Juniors who are highly experienced in all areas of prisoner legal services and are prepared to travel across England and Wales. Areas of experience include:

  • Parole Board Hearings.
  • Adjudications.
  • Complaints.
  • Re-Categorisation.
  • Inquests arising in the prison, custody or detention.
  • Compensation for miscarriages of justice and related civil litigation.
  • Applications for habeas corpus.
  • Representation on disciplinary matters.
  • Appeal convictions and appeal sentence.

Our members regularly undertake parole board hearings at prisons in respect of life sentences, parole hearings, recall panels, and re-categorisation of prisoners. Members have a strong record in securing moves to open conditions and directions for release.

For all aspects of prisoners’ legal services, St Pauls are proficient in dealing with complex cases which require oral questioning of experts and those which involve “deniers”.

We also have significant expertise in undertaking judicial reviews in this area and appearing in adjudication / disciplinary proceedings. The team often provide written advice across a broad spectrum of prison law issues involving adjudication procedure, novel criminal charges, sentence calculation, eligibility for compassionate release, home detention curfew and delay in the provision of an oral hearing.

Get in touch with our clerking team today to discuss working with our experienced prison law barristers.

“The clerking team is responsive, extremely approachable and knowledgeable”

The Legal 500

Get in touch

For further information and enquiries please contact our clerks team.

Prison Law Barristers

Sam Green KC

Sam Green KC

Joint Head of Chambers

Call: 1998 Silk: 2015

Richard Barraclough KC

Richard Barraclough KC

Call: 1980 Silk: 2003

Alasdair Campbell

Alasdair Campbell

Call: 1999

Danielle Graham

Danielle Graham

Call: 2003

Andrew Nixon

Andrew Nixon

Call: 2006

Kristina Goodwin

Kristina Goodwin

Call: 2013

Jessica Heggie

Jessica Heggie

Call: 2017

Harry Crowson

Harry Crowson

Call: 2018

Temitayo Dasaolu

Temitayo Dasaolu

Call: 2018

Emma Handley

Emma Handley

Call: 2019

Contact Us

Chambers is centrally located within walking distance of the train station, secure car parks and the Courts.

Contact Us

St Pauls Chambers
Park Row House
19-20 Park Row
Leeds
LS1 5JF

For out of hours assistance please call the senior clerk on 07854170429.

The switchboard will open from 08:30 until 17:30

Phone: +44 (0)1132 455 866
Email: [email protected]
CJSM: [email protected]

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