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Prison Law
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. Members of the team 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.
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.

Barristers
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QCs
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Head of Chambers
Simon Bickler QC
Call: 1988
Silk: 2011
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Nigel Sangster QC
Call: 1976
Silk: 1998
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Richard Barraclough QC
Call: 1980
Silk: 2003
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Simon Myerson QC
Call: 1986
Silk: 2003
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Bryan Cox QC
Call: 1979
Silk: 2005
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Associate Tenant
Jane Bewsey QC
Call: 1986
Silk: 2010
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Sam Green QC
Call: 1998
Silk: 2015
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John Harrison QC
Call: 1994
Silk: 2016
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Jonathan Sandiford QC
Call: 1992
Silk: 2020
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Associate Tenant
Cameron Brown QC
Call: 1998
Silk: 2020
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Members
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Jeremy Barnett
Call: 1980
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Philip Standfast
Call: 1980
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Nikki Saxton
Call: 1992
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Robert Smith
Call: 1995
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Derek Duffy
Call: 1997
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Nicholas Worsley
Call: 1998
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Alasdair Campbell
Call: 1999
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Denise Breen-Lawton
Call: 2000
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Andrew Stranex
Call: 2000
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Jane Brady
Call: 2001
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James Bourne-Arton
Call: 2001
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Sasha Bailey
Call: 2002
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Danielle Graham
Call: 2003
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Hal Watson
Call: 2003
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James Lake
Call: 2005
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Andrew Nixon
Call: 2006
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Helen Chapman
Call: 2006
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Voldi Welch
Call: 2008
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Hannah Hinton
Call: 2008
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Angus MacDonald
Call: 2009
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Sophie Mitchell
Call: 2010
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Hannah Lynch
Call: 2011
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Stephen Flint
Call: 2012
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George Hazel-Owram
Call: 2012
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Kristina Goodwin
Call: 2013
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Stephen Elphick
Call: 2014
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Charlie Greenwood
Call: 2015
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Frances Pencheon
Call: 2015
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Jessica Heggie
Call: 2017
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Temitayo Dasaolu
Call: 2018
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Ayman Khokhar
Call: 2018
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Harry Crowson
Call: 2019
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Emma Handley
Call: 2019
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