Jenn Lawrence

Call: 2021

Education

BA (Yale); MPhil (Oxford); GDL (City); Bar Course (ICCA)

Introduction

Jenn has a busy practice which spans many of Chambers’ core areas of work. She is particularly active in the fields of competition law, public law and human rights, data protection and information law as well as a number of areas of public international law. She is appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s panel of preferred counsel. She is also direct access qualified.

Current and recent highlights include:

  • Competition law: Acting in a number of collective proceedings before the CAT, including for Google in both ‘play store’ class actions brought by consumers (press here) and app developers (press here) and for Vodafone in the £3.2 billion ‘loyalty penalties’ class action (press here).
  • Public law and human rights: Acting for numerous Afghan former interpreters / guards / special forces soldiers / consultants who worked alongside the British armed forces in relation to the Ministry of Defence’s decisions not to relocate them to the UK following the fall of Kabul (press here) and for the claimants in a case brought against the Metropolitan Police Service for breaching the HRA 1998 in the context of the undercover police scandal (press here).
  • Data protection and information law: Acting for the ICO in relation to a £12.7 million fine imposed on TikTok for breaches of data protection law, including failing to use children’s personal data lawfully (press here) and for over 19,000 police officers in a claim against the Police Federation for loss of control of their personal data, including their home address data (press here).
  • Public international law: Advising an intergovernmental organisation on the immunity of international organisations as well as the compatibility of certain of its endeavours with various multilateral treaties.

Jenn was the recipient of Lincoln’s Inn’s top scholarships for both the GDL and the Bar Course. Before that, Jenn graduated from Yale University with a BA in Classics (with Distinction) and from the University of Oxford with an MPhil in Ancient Greek and Roman History (with Distinction). She wrote her MPhil thesis on inter-state surrender during the Roman Republic, which bears similarity to extradition in current international law.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Jenn was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley for two years, where she worked on a variety of international mergers and acquisitions. She was born in New York and raised in Hong Kong and Canada.

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