Oliver Jackson
UK Bar Guide 2025
Up and Coming : Administrative & Public Law
Up and Coming
About
Provided by Oliver Jackson
Practice Areas
Oliver specialises in public law, employment, competition, commercial and procurement law. Clients range from individuals, start-ups, employees and NGOs to multinational businesses, local authorities, government departments and foreign states.
Recent cases include: the constitutional law challenge on the status of accrued EU law rights post-Brexit (Volvo limitation); the school prayer ban case (R (NN) v Michaela Community School); a successful Supreme Court appeal on mental health after-care services (R (Worcestershire v SSHSC); a £19 billion judicial review by 72 trade unions (R (FBU & BMA) v HM Treasury); a 7-week trial of group claims by thousands of UK businesses against Mastercard/Visa for competition law breaches (Multilateral Interchange Fees); an ECtHR disability rights challenge against the UK's abortion laws (Heidi Crowter v UK); and a state immunity challenge on ‘home’ national embassy staff (Muda v Malaysia).
Called to the Bar 2019. Judicial Assistant to the UK Supreme Court 2020-2021.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Oliver Jackson is often instructed by central and local government bodies. He has a broad practice including judicial reviews related to community care and pensions reform.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Oliver is very responsive. His written work is always very good."
"Oliver is really easy to deal with and communicates very easily. He writes very well. He provides very clear strategic objectives and tailors it to that."
"Oliver has very good written advocacy."
"Oliver is very responsive. His written work is always very good."
"Oliver is really easy to deal with and communicates very easily. He writes very well. He provides very clear strategic objectives and tailors it to that."
"Oliver has very good written advocacy."