Jed Pennington

Jed joined Bhatt Murphy in March 2010 and was admitted as a solicitor on 1 April 2010. Jed currently assists Fiona Murphy on a range of private and public law litigation representing clients who have been victims of misconduct and human rights abuses by the state. He has a strong interest in representing those wrongly detained by the immigration authorities and bereaved families who have lost loved ones in custody.

Prior to joining Bhatt Murphy Jed worked for five years as an immigration practitioner, four years of which he spent at Wilson and Co where he completed his training contract. The focus of Jed’s practice was representing detained clients and those threatened with deportation in the wake of the 2006 foreign national prisoner crisis, particularly settled migrants with families and recognised refugees. He assisted with a control order case (Secretary of State for the Home Department v AP [2008] EWHC 2001) and represented a client with serious mental health problems in a challenge to his detention by the SSHD (MC (Algeria), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 347). Jed provided in house training at Wilson and Co on unlawful immigration detention.

Jed was seconded to Bhatt Murphy for six months in 2009 as part of his training contract. He assisted Mark Scott with immigration detention litigation and inquests, primarily the inquests touching the deaths of Sam Elphick and Liam McManus who were 17 and 15 when they died in the juvenile secure estate.

Jed graduated with a degree in law from the University of Cambridge (BA Hons, 2:1) and was awarded two academic prizes by his college. He completed the LPC at the College of Law, Bloomsbury (distinction).

Jed is a member of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, Foreign National Prisoners Network, Police Action Lawyers Group and Inquest Lawyers Group. He volunteers fortnightly at an evening immigration advice surgery at Camden Law Centre.