A significant portion of our work has an international focus. This may include using international law to support a client's case, addressing human rights violations abroad, or representing clients before international courts like the European Court of Human Rights.

With extensive experience in navigating the complexities of international cases, we are adept at overcoming the logistical, jurisdictional, and legal challenges they present. Our expertise in this field has earned us recognition in the Chambers Guide’s spotlight on international human rights law.

Our international work frequently involves collaboration with leading charitable and advocacy organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group, Privacy International, Kalayaan, ECCHR, Reprieve, Redress, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, BIRD, and the Arab Organisation for Human Rights.

Some examples of our work in this area:

• Representing Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in their intervention in a High Court judicial review case regarding arms exports to Israel in 2024.
• A successful damages claim against the UK government for a high profile victim of unlawful rendition, torture and arbitrary detention in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• A series of cases securing evacuation and protection for Afghans who supported the UK mission in Afghanistan, applying the UK’s Afghan ‘ARAP’ and ‘ACRS’ schemes (see e.g. here).
• A high profile application to the European Court of Human Rights challenging the UK's mass surveillance regime, representing Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group and others in the landmark Big Brother Watch case.
• Representing Amnesty International and others in their intervention in the High Court and Court of Appeal proceedings regarding UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia (R (Campaign Against the Arms Trade v Secretary of State for International Trade).
• The first judicial review to confirm the UK Foreign Office’s duty to carry out an “Overseas Security and Justice Assistance” risk assessment before providing military training to the foreign regimes with poor human rights records.
• Successful judicial reviews of UK government decisions in relation to the prosecution of and application of immigration controls to persons suspected of torture overseas.
• Civil claims and complaints under human rights mechanisms such as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises against corporations involved in human rights abuses overseas including complicity with security force abuses in Colombia and Tanzania; ‘sportswashing’ by Formula 1, FIFA and others in relation to Bahrain human rights abuses; and tear gas exports to rights-abusing states.
• Helping the Oil Justice project with War on Want find funds for the Colombian NGO COSPACC to rebuild a community destroyed by 20 years of environmental and human rights violations by the state and business.