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Matrix Chambers is a set of barristers' chambers in Gray's Inn, London and Geneva, Switzerland.[1] It was founded in April 2000 by 22 barristers from 7 different chambers.
It was the first concrete spin-off to come from the new legislation and broke new ground in being a specialist set, focusing on criminal law, constitutional law and human rights, with an international perspective.[2]
Details
Matrix was founded shortly before the implementation of the 1998 Human Rights Act in October 2000. It caused mild controversy when it was leaked that "a new chambers was being set up with many of the leading and most high-profile barristers in the area of human rights - who had all been headhunted."[3]
Members include: Lord Brennan QC, Professor Conor Gearty, Lord Ken Macdonald QC, Clare Montgomery QC, Tim Owen QC, Matthew Ryder QC, Philippe Sands QC, Hugh Tomlinson QC, Ben Silverstone, and Helen Mountfield QC.[4]
Former members include: Cherie Booth QC (aka Cherie Blair, wife of Tony)[5] and James Crawford SC.[6]
Matrix Law Pod
On 4 May 2020, the Matrix Law Pod looked at "data tracking in the age of COVID-19":
This week the Matrix Law Pod addresses the human rights implications of how Governments are increasingly turning to technology, not least data tracking, to help ease us out of lockdown.
In countries such as South Korea and Taiwan, the authorities have been using location data from peoples phones to identify all those who have been in the close vicinity of a person diagnosed with COVID-19 in order that they can be isolated before they infect others. Contact tracing has long been a feature of public health – for example, doctors would sit down with those diagnosed with TB or HIV and discuss who they might have had been in relevant contact with – and then try and track those persons down – a slow and inefficient task that even when it identified contacts might do so long after they had in turn infected many others. Technology offers the promise of doing those tasks in fractions of seconds with far greater efficacy.
This is a subject of great interest to the UK authorities and to the data companies who advise them, or would like to advise them. In this episode we explore not just the benefits that this tech might bring but what the dangers and downsides might be. To what degree can law, or should law, provide a means for balancing the benefits that tech can bring with its dangers – and how can that be achieved?
Richard Hermer QC, Murray Hunt and Helen Mountfield QC are joined by Cori Crider, a US qualified lawyer and the co-founder of Foxglove which is an NGO created to address the threat of the misuse of mass data collection.[7]
Employee on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed |
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| Matthew Ryder | Founder member | 2000 |
References
- ↑ "Another round at the Bar"
- ↑ "The Lawyer"
- ↑ "A change of order at the Bar"
- ↑ "Members - Matrix Chambers"
- ↑ "Cherie Booth quits chambers to join consultancy"
- ↑ "Professor James Crawford AC SC appointed as Judge to the International Court of Justice - Matrix International"
- ↑ "The Matrix Law Pod Episode 5: Every breath you take – data tracking in the age of Covid-19"
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