Quincy Whitaker

Quincy Whitaker is an English barrister with over 20 years experience in the field of human rights. She has a degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and a Master’s Degree (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics. She has taught International Human Rights Law at the LSE and Constitutional Law at SOAS.

She has worked on capacity-building and justice projects in many countries including India, Kosovo, Uganda, Rwanda. She has represented defendants before the Sierra Leone Tribunal and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She has extensive experience of justice-related training programmes. She is the co-author of Criminal Justice, Police Powers and Human Rights, Blackstone, 2001.

Simon Laws QC

Simon Laws QC is an English barrister with over 20 years experience in criminal litigation.  He was employed by the United Nations as a prosecutor in a War Crimes trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for two years, 2008-2010. 

He has been involved in a number of international projects in Rwanda.  In 2011 he was appointed Queen’s Counsel.  He is trained to deliver the Hampel method of advocacy training.  He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Exeter’s Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.

Joss Ticehurst

Joss Ticehurst is an English barrister with over 12 years experience in corporate and criminal litigation.  In the past three years he has undertaken work with an international dimension in Rwanda, providing research and advice to both NGOs and Government bodies. 

Recent work has included research and advice on pre-trial detention, and he has a particular experience in assembling teams locally and project-managing field agents.  He has also worked in Belize providing advice on Freedom of Information to a Belizean NGO.

Rachel Murray

Rachel Murray is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Bristol. Her specialist areas are human rights in Africa, particularly the African Charter and its Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Organization of African Unity/African Union.

Her publications include Human Rights in Africa, from Organization of African Unity to African Union, Cambridge, 2004; The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. The System at Work, with Malcolm Evans, Cambridge, 2008; The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and International Law, Hart Publishing, 2000), and articles in leading legal human rights journals. She is on the editorial board of a number of journals including the Journal of African Law and African Journal of International and Comparative Law. She has been involved in a wide variety of capacity-building and justice projects in many countries including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan.

Andrews Kananga

Andrews Kananga is the Executive Director of the Rwanda Legal Aid Forum, an organization promoting access to justice in Rwanda.  He has worked extensively on capacity-building and justice-related projects in Rwanda and also in Ethiopia with an emphasis on transitional justice mechanisms, facilitating access to justice for disadvantaged groups and issues involving the rights of children and detainees.

He has worked closely with NGOs and Government agencies in Rwanda and is currently engaged on a project for the Rwanda Law Reform Commission concerned with the Harmonisation of Laws with International treaty obligations.

Jamie Burton

Jamie’s overseas work focuses on issues of social justice.  

He is Chair and co-founder of Just Fair, a registered charity that works exclusively on economic, social and cultural rights.   Just Fair has had a significant impact on the public debate on human rights in the UK.  Next year it will produce the first UK human rights audit for the UN Committee on ESR. 

For several years Jamie has been a member of the Expert Panel for ‘Housing Rights Watch’ - a pan-European think-tank that works on housing and homelessness rights across Europe.  It has brought collective complaints to the Council of Europe against France, Netherlands and Ireland.  

In addition Jamie recently sat on UNICEF's Expert Group on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In recent years Jamie worked for the Human Rights Law Network on the Right to Food litigation in India, the largest human rights based class action in the history.  Jamie was also invited by Oxfam to work on strategic litigation in Bangladesh.  In 2014 the International Commission of Jurists invited Jamie to address a symposium of judges and lawyers on social rights in common law countries.

Jamie does extensive training on human rights.  In particular he provides training to “Advocates for International Development” on human rights issues that arise in developments contexts.

Jamie also practices as a barrister from Doughty Street Chambers, London, a leading set of human rights barristers

John Wadham

John Wadham is a distinguished human rights lawyer and activist who has led INTERIGHTS (the Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights), the Equality and Human Rights Commission (for six years as General Counsel), the Independent Police Complaints Commission (as Deputy Chair) and Liberty (the National Council for Civil Liberties) (as Legal Officer, Director of Law and, finally, CEO).

He also worked for several law centres in South London and in private practice.  He studied at the College of Law, Surrey University and the London School of Economics.  He is a Visiting Fellow at Bristol University; a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and a Honorary Lecturer at University of Leicester.  He is a co-author of the Blackstone’s Guide to the Human Rights Act (OUP), the Blackstone’s Guide to the Freedom of Information Act (OUP), the Blackstone’s Guide to the Equality Act (OUP) and many other articles and publications.  His overseas work has taken him to many countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia.  He acts as an expert for the Council of Europe.

Ken Scott

Ken is a lecturer and consultant on international humanitarian law, international courts and criminal law.

After Harvard Law School he worked for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1985 to 1997 as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief, Complex Prosecutions Section.

From 1998 to 2011 he was employed by the United Nations in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.  As a Senior Trial Attorney he led teams of international lawyers, investigators, military analysts, historians and others in successfully investigating and litigating cases involving thirteen major war criminals, including top political and military leaders. He also served for many years on the Tribunal’s Committee on the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, helping shape the Tribunal’s litigation process and evidentiary rules.

He is currently the Amicus prosecutor at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and involved as a consultant and lecturer in a wide variety of contexts.  He has been commissioned to write reports on the conflict in South Sudan and on prosecuting maritime piracy and has provided training to judges and lawyers in Jordan and Turkey.