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Natasha is regularly instructed in high-profile and test cases for a range of individual claimants, NGOs, companies, regulatory clients and Government, and is appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel.
She also acts as counsel to the Iraq Fatality Investigations, an Article 2 inquiry chaired by Dame Anne Rafferty into civilian deaths in Iraq involving British forces. She has led the counsel team since 2021, and conducted the questioning of witnesses at the live-streamed public hearings.
Some recent cases include:
Natasha has a strong international dimension to her work. In addition to regular instructions in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Privy Council, she advises (often pro bono) on a broad range of issues under private international, international humanitarian and human rights law. In 2023, she acted as a Trial Observer the Bar Human Rights Committee in the Israeli military courts in the Occupied West Bank. She is a member of the Geoffrey Nice Foundation working group on the role of international judicial mechanisms in post-conflict society and holds an Inner Temple Pegasus Scholarship to work with the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in Beirut on transitional justice and engagement (cancelled due to COVID-19).
Natasha is a Governor at The Bridge School, a special needs multi-academy trust in Holloway. Prior to joining the Bar, she worked at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Switzerland and for the United Nations Development Programme. She also taught Public and Constitutional Law at the London School of Economics.
She speaks Spanish (including study at the University of Havana), French (conversational) and Levantine Arabic (conversational). She is currently learning Italian.
Natasha has a broad public law practice, acting for individual claimants, NGOs, companies, regulatory clients and Government departments. She also has experience bringing and appealing claims by constitutional motion in Commonwealth jurisdictions and in matters on appeal to the Privy Council. Her advice is regularly sought on strategic and test-case litigation.
Natasha is on the Attorney General’s C Panel of Counsel. She taught Public and Constitutional Law at the London School of Economics until 2023.
Further information about Natasha’s specialisms can be found in the tabs on the right of this page.
Natasha is a human rights specialist, and she regularly acts in cases concerning the ECHR, civil liberties and constitutional rights.
Some recent examples of her work include:
Before joining the Bar, Natasha held the Richard Sandbrook Fellowship at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Switzerland, advising on the RED+ conservation and social justice programme. She also worked as a Legal Intern for the UNDP, researching judicial transparency and the rule of law.
Natasha has a strong international dimension to her practice.
She has experience in bringing constitutional claims in Commonwealth jurisdictions and in the Privy Council. She recently acted on behalf of the Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago in the landmark linked appeals relating to the constitutionality of the Coronavirus Regulations 2020 and the scope of the legislative savings provisions contained in the Constitution: Suraj & Ors v AG of Trinidad & Tobago [2022] UKPC 26.
Natasha acted as a Trial Observer for the Bar Human Rights Committee in the Israeli military courts in the Occupied West Bank (2023). She has also advised NGOs on issues including the application of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to the conflict in West Papua and the international status of that conflict, and on state engagement with the ICRC. Her work as counsel to the Iraq Fatality Investigations involves advising on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the circumstances investigated.
She also has experience in matters raising issues of jurisdiction and conflicts of law, and appeared in the Supreme Court in the leading case on insurance jurisdiction under Brussels I: Keefe v (1) Mapfre Mutualidad Compania De Seguros Y Reaseguros SA (2) Hoteles Pinero Canarias SL. Natasha has also advised extensively on the private international law implications of Brexit on cross-border litigation and has substantial experience litigating under the Athens and Montreal Conventions on behalf of major tour operator clients.
Before joining the Bar, Natasha held the Richard Sandbrook Fellowship at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Switzerland, advising on the RED+ conservation and social justice programme. She also worked as a Legal Intern for the UNDP, researching judicial transparency and the rule of law.
Natasha acts for claimants and intervening parties in a range of immigration, asylum and unlawful detention matters and regularly appears in the Immigration Tribunals and High Court.
She is experienced in asylum appeals under domestic and European refugee law and regularly works in camps and clinics in Athens, Calais and Dunkirk. She is a repeat volunteer with RLS Athens, offering legal advice on family reunification and asylum to clients in Greece, and has provided advice through the Ukraine Advice Project UK. Natasha has also represented detained clients pro bono through Bail for Immigration Detainees.
Some examples of recent work include:
Natasha has substantial experience in inquiries and inquests, acting as counsel to core participants and as leading junior inquiry counsel. Her advice is regularly sought on the design, procedure and terms of reference for non-statutory public inquiries.
Natasha has been instructed as counsel to the Iraq Fatality Investigations since 2017, acting as leading junior counsel since 2021. In this role, Natasha advises on all matters relating to the substance and procedure of the non-statutory inquiry, including on the requirements of Article 2, issues of disclosure and evidence, ICC and AG prosecution undertakings and matters of anonymity. She additionally advises the Inspector on matters of International Humanitarian Law as they arise.
As Counsel to the Iraq Fatality Investigations, Natasha has been instructed on the following matters:
Natasha is currently instructed in the Covid-19 Inquiry on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Natasha acts in a range of cases raising matters related to national security. She is familiar with Closed Material Proceedings in the High Court and in SIAC.
Since joining Landmark in 2021, Natasha has been acting in planning and environment matters connected to her specialist practice areas. She also acts in planning inquiries on behalf of a range of clients.
Human Rights and Civil Liberties
International
Immigration
Public Inquiries
National Security
Planning and Environment
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07 11 2024
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Satya Jeremie, Natasha Jackson, and Alex Shattock
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23 10 2024
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 challenges to proceed
news
18 10 2024
Super-Sub! Substitution and Standing in Judicial Review- issues decided by Swift J
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24 09 2024
Education, health and social care: the intersections webinar series - Part 2
Tim Buley KC, Natasha Jackson, Charles Bishop, and Siân McGibbon
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10 09 2024
Dorset housing appeal dismissed
cases
23 07 2024
Court of Appeal decides “mistaken stamps” case
cases
14 03 2024
Court of Appeal decision on the position of EEA ‘extended family members’ post-Brexit
cases
11 03 2024
Admin Court rejects challenge to EU Settlement Scheme
Appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel
“Inquests Overseas: common issues and how to get around them”, Travel and Aviation Quartely (issue 4), July 2021, reprinted in Counsel Magazine and the International & Travel Law Blog
New Law Journal, “Third Sector Protector – Implications of the Kids Company case”, March 2021
“New requirements for witness statements: PD57AC”, Feb 2021
Iraq Fatality Investigations, Consolidated Report into the death of Saeed Radhi Shabram Wawi Al-Bazooni, September 2020 (CP 290)
Iraq Fatality Investigations, Consolidated Report into the death of Tariq Sabri Mahmud, March 2019 (CP 78)
Free Movement, Eviction of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children under European Law, 4 July 2019
Limits to the Duomatic principle, Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency, October 2017, vol 10 issue 5
No Limits: the indefinite suspension of a bankrupt’s discharge, Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency, vol 10 issue 5, April 2017
Validation orders require more than good faith, Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency, October 2016
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