Adam Straw

Tooks Chambers

8 Warner Yard
London
United Kingdom
EC1R 5EY
020 7842 6100
clerks@tooks.co.uk

Ranked In

London (Bar)
Civil Liberties ( Up and Coming )

Profile

Specialisation: Human rights, public law, inquests, prison, police, mental health, mental capacity, community care, discrimination. Significant recent cases include R (Lewis & ors) v HM Coroner for Shropshire [2009] EWHC 661 (Admin) (a coroner's direction on narrative verdicts); R (on the application of D) v Inner South London Assistant Deputy Coroner [2008] EWHC 3356 (Admin) (acting for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes); and R V Williams [2009] EWCA Crim 355 (a successful challenge to an IPP sentence).

Publications: Inquests – a Practitioner’s Guide, LAG; Recent Developments in Inquest Law, an ongoing series in Legal Action.