Megan Phillips

Megan Phillips is a solicitor in our police law department specialising in civil actions and complaints against the police. She also represents the families of those who have died in police and prison custody.

Megan joined Bhatt Murphy in October 2005. She started her training at Hickman & Rose in 2000 and qualified in 2003, prior to which she spent several years engaged in criminal defence work. She is as an accredited police station representative and has extensive experience of representing clients on a variety of criminal charges at the police station.

At Bhatt Murphy, her caseload initially consisted of assisting in a number of highly complex actions against the police, including a very substantial multi-party misfeasance claim. She has since developed her own caseload, with a particular emphasis on claims where the police officers concerned have gone on to face disciplinary or criminal proceedings. Megan is able to draw extensively on her background in criminal law, and her knowledge of the police complaints process, in order to enable her clients in these proceedings to play an active and effective role, and to achieve the best possible outcomes for them.

In addition, Megan has a full and varied caseload of civil claims against the police. She has been instructed in claims alleging racial discrimination, a number of public order matters, and also claims involving complex medical evidence.

She has represented the families of those who have died in police and prison custody, in which her objectives are to ensure that her clients are fully involved and that investigations into the death are as full and wide as possible.

Megan sits on the Steering Committee of the Inquest Lawyers Group and is the editor of the Inquest Law magazine. She is also a member of the Police Action Lawyers’ Group, Liberty, Young Legal Aid Lawyers’ Group and the Human Rights Lawyers’ Association.

Megan’s undergraduate degree is a 2:1 BA (Hons) in Philosophy and Politics awarded from the University of Manchester in 1999. She worked as a volunteer Press and Campaigns Assistant at Liberty before undertaking the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in London.