Fraser Eccles
Fraser is an Associate in Hogan Lovells' award winning Public Law & Policy team, helping businesses understand, change and challenge the regulatory frameworks they operate in.
He assists clients in the public and private sectors, including in central government, on both contentious and advisory matters including administrative and public law, judicial review, freedom of information, EU law, commercial human rights and public affairs and policy.
Fraser acts for claimants, defendants and interested parties in high-profile and complex judicial review and other statutory appeal proceedings. As part of his advisory practice, Fraser assists private sector clients to capitalise on opportunities and mitigate risks through their engagement with government decision-makers and helps public sector clients to make more robust policy decisions.
Fraser began his career as a policy advisor at HM Treasury, advising on matters relating to tax policy, trade, and the UK’s exit from the European Union.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2021
Experience
- Kirkland & Ellis (2021 - 2022)
- Clifford Chance (2019 - 2021)
- HM Treasury (2016 - 2018)
Membership
- Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association
- Young Public Lawyers’ Group
- Human Rights Lawyers Association
Qualifications
- LLM in Commercial Legal Practice (2019)
- Graduate Diploma in Law (2018)
- BA (Hons) Geography (2015)
Education
- University of Oxford (2015)
- BPP University (2018-2019)
1 Contributions by Fraser Eccles
PRACTICE NOTES
Judicial review: interested parties and interveners—status, joinder, Supreme Court practice and costs (England and Wales)
Interested parties
In the context of judicial review, an interested party refers to any person—other than the claimant and defendant—who is directly affected by the claim. Where a judicial review claim is connected to proceedings in a court or a tribunal, every other party to those proceedings will qualify as an interested party in the review; eg if a defendant in a criminal case in the Magistrates or Crown Court brings a judicial review of a decision in that case, the prosecution must always be named as an interested party in the judicial review claim. A person is regarded as directly affected if they are affected without the intervention of any intermediate agency, that is, without the involvement of any intervening body. For example, in R v Rent Officer Service, ex parte Muldoon, a local housing authority’s decision not to pay a housing benefit was challenged. The Secretary of State was indirectly affected, because if the decision were quashed, the disputed benefit would be added to the subsidy paid to the local authority...
Public Law
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