Ben Emmerson
| Ben Emmerson, QC | |
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Emmerson at Chatham House in 2013
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| United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights | |
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Assumed office 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Martin Scheinin |
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| Born |
August 10, 1963 Kent, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Barrister |
Ben Emmerson, QC (born 10 August 1963) is a British lawyer, specialising in European human rights law, public international law and international criminal law. He was a founder member of Matrix Chambers and has 25 years’ experience litigating before international courts and tribunals including the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Within the UK he is a deputy High Court Judge, a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple and an Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. In 2014 he was appointed Counsel for the Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales, but was suspended from duty and then resigned in September 2016.
Born in Kent, his father Brian Emmerson was finance director of the in London. He attended Douai School and Bristol University, and was called to the bar in 1986. Until 1999 Emmerson was a member of Doughty Street Chambers, but in February 2000 he left to join the new Matrix Chambers which specialises in human rights. In April 2000 he was appointed Queen's Counsel.
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