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About
Provided by Zoe Gannon
Practice Areas
Zoe is an established junior who practices across the related fields of administrative and public law, regulatory, procurement, human rights, education, health and community care as well as information and data protection. She acts for both claimants and respondents and is very experienced in dealing with sensitive matters involving complex issues of law and policy. She is regularly instructed in the high court and appeal courts as sole counsel and as part of larger teams, including applications to Strasbourg, with extensive experience of claims under the European Convention on Human Rights. In the field of education Zoe acts for students, schools, FE Colleges and Universities in a range of courts and tribunals. She has a particular expertise in matters of discrimination and in transgender issues, and is frequently asked to advise on cases involving allegations of sexual abuse. In data protection cases Zoe has acted both for and against the Information Commissioner in six figure monetary penalty cases as well as other bodies in alleged data breach claims. She is appointed Panel Counsel to the Crown (B Panel) and is on the Equality and Human Rights Commission Panel of Council (B Panel).
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Zoe Gannon is a well-regarded junior barrister with growing expertise in local government matters. She is regularly called upon to advise local authorities, central government and health bodies and has strong expertise covering a range of sectors, particularly employment, education and community care. She has experience appearing before both the High Court and Court of Appeal.
Zoe Gannon is a member of the Attorney General's B panel of counsel and is also on the Equality and Human Rights Commission's panel. She receives instructions in the context of these two appointments, as well as from claimants, in a broad range of public law matters including challenges to welfare rules.
Zoe Gannon has a broad public law practice and regularly acts for universities, colleges, schools and local authorities on a wide range of education matters. She is particularly experienced in the handling of discrimination cases and judicial review challenges to school decisions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Zoe Gannon is really experienced."
"She is very good, extremely bright and hard-working."
"Zoe Gannon is very good on public law."
"She is excellent on her feet, a great drafter and clients really like her. She is patient and brilliant at making her point."
"Zoe Gannon has a fundamental understanding of the state funded education system, so you know you are going to get an empathetic as well as legally robust opinion."
"Zoe Gannon is really experienced."
"She is very good, extremely bright and hard-working."
"Zoe Gannon is very good on public law."
"She is excellent on her feet, a great drafter and clients really like her. She is patient and brilliant at making her point."
"Zoe Gannon has a fundamental understanding of the state funded education system, so you know you are going to get an empathetic as well as legally robust opinion."