Jason Coppel’s practice focuses on public law, procurement law and information law, with particular emphasis on EU law and human rights issues. He has appeared in many of the leading public and procurement law cases of recent years, including the Article 50 TEU litigation, Gina Miller v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Gardner v Secretary of State for Health (on discharge of hospital patients into care homes at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic) Camelot UK Ltd v the Gambling Commission (on the award of the licence to operate the National Lottery), British Gas v Secretary of State for Energy Securing (the subsidy control challenge to the sale of Bulb Energy) and R (TTT) v Michaela Community Schools Trust (prohibition of prayer rituals on school premises). He is ranked by the directories as a leading KC in public law, human rights, EU law and procurement and subsidy control law. He is a member of the General Appeals Panel of the Football Association and the Independent Oversight Panel of the Premier League. He was a Deputy High Court Judge between 2018-2024.
Jason was the Chambers & Partners Public Law and Human Rights Silk of the Year 2022.
He was The Times “Lawyer of the Week” in February 2016, after acting for criminal duty solicitors in a successful challenge to new legal aid arrangements, and again, recently, on 2 May 2024, in recognition of his work on the Michaela School case. You can read the Times profiles here and here.
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