Serjeants’ Inn specialises in important, high profile medical, police, regulatory, criminal and public law cases, often involving political, ethical or social issues. Our barristers deal with litigation relating to the issues of our day such as assisted suicide, the refugee crisis, historic child abuse allegations and national security, to name just a few. Many of our cases span elements of both public and private law. They affect the rights of both individuals and the state.

Our cases often involve new and important points of law and we are frequently instructed to act in test cases: recent examples include proceedings brought by a killer against the NHS for damage arising from her crime and a false imprisonment claim relating to “rolling containment” policing of football matches.