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AI Battles and Five other Public Law Developments to Look Out for in 2025
Fred Allen
Fred is a senior associate with more than 10 years of legal experience. He works within the Public Law Department and International Crime Group. His clients have included businesses, regulators, trade associations, religious institutions, schools, education providers, charities, and private clients including high net worth individuals, and senior political and business figures. He has worked on a range of public law challenges and matters including public inquiries and independent investigations; inquests; judicial review proceedings; tribunal appeals; challenges to Interpol Red Notices; defences against extradition requests; and applications to the European Court of Human Rights. He also advises in connection with information law, with a particular focus on data protection.
Fred’s judicial review work has included advising and assisting on judicial reviews relating to financial regulation; healthcare; higher education; criminal investigations; disciplinary proceedings; and immigration decisions. He has been instructed by claimants, defendants and interveners.
Fred represented a number of Core Participants and witnesses in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, and a witness in the independent investigation into the circumstances around the 1995 BBC Panorama interview of Diana, Princess of Wales. He has advised witnesses and institutions in connection with investigations into financial regulation and corporate governance.
Fred has advised individuals in connection with freedom of information requests and their rights under the data protection regime. He has assisted companies and charities with compliance with UK GDPR, with a special interest in processing for law enforcement and safeguarding.
Fred has worked on extradition cases involving politically motivated prosecutions in foreign jurisdictions, cases with a multi-jurisdictional element, and accusations of high value fraud. He has worked on extradition and international protection matters for individuals from Sweden, Ukraine, Russia, India and the Middle East.
Publications
Technology & the criminal justice system - New Law Journal, June 2022
Professional Societies and Memberships
- Associate to Watch for Administrative & Public Law (UK Wide) in Chambers UK 2023
- Young Public Lawyers’ Group (former co-chair and committee member)
