Angela Patrick

Practice Areas

Angela focuses on public law and civil claims with a human rights element. She regularly represents bereaved families and those who challenge human rights violations by the State.

Angela is currently instructed for over 60 former sub postmasters in the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry and representing the family of Lewis Skelton, who was unlawfully killed when shot by a firearms officer (R (B50) v. HM Coroner for the East Riding of Yorkshire and Ors [2023] EWHC 81).

She has previously been instructed in a range of high-profile matters, including:

- the Birmingham Pub Bombings Inquests

- Fishmongers Hall Inquests (for the media)

- Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

- Acting for exiled Chagossian, Olivier Bancoult

- Complex inquests and related challenges involving failures by police, prisons and probation and in health and social care settings (recently, for the families of Ella Kissi-Debrah, Janet Scott, Oskar Nash, Sammy Alban-Stanley, and Jayden Booroff).

Angela frequently advises on actions against public bodies including for women discriminated against by the police and for children and disabled people failed by local authorities.

She regularly provides pre-and post-publication media advice.

Career

Previously Director of Human Rights at JUSTICE, running public interest interventions in the UK and at the European Court of Human Rights.

Equality and Human Rights Commission Panel since 2019.

Publications

General Editor Sweet & Maxwell’s Human Rights Practice.

Personal

LLM (First Class), University of Cambridge; LLB (First Class), University of Durham.