Imogen Proud
Imogen is a barrister at Monckton Chambers with a particular interest in public law and human rights. Imogen has worked on matters including:
- the challenge by Labour Party members excluded from voting in the 2016 Labour leadership election on the basis that they had not been members for more than 6 months (Evangelou and others v Labour Party);
- alleged hacker Lauri Love’s landmark successful opposition to the National Crime Agency’s application for encryption keys for protected data on his computers (Lauri Love v NCA);
- the Home Secretary’s appeal in a challenge to the data retention powers in DRIPA 2014 brought by MPs David Davis and Tom Watson (SSHD v Davis and others);
- a judicial review of the Metropolitan Police in relation to its witness protection programme;
- a judicial review of a Clinical Commissioning Group’s refusal to fund a medication trial;
- a judicial review of the Housing Allocation Policy of several London boroughs;
- a challenge by Friends of the Earth to the decision of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to permit the emergency use of a banned pesticide; and
- multiple challenges brought by unaccompanied, child asylum seekers to ‘age assessments’ carried out by local authorities finding them to be aged over 18.
As a volunteer at Hackney Community Law Centre and with the Free Representation Unit, Imogen has advised numerous clients on welfare benefits law and has represented a number of clients in the Social Security Tribunal.
Practice Areas
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 2015
Membership
- Justice
- Liberty
- Human Rights Lawyers Association
- Association of Lawyers for Animal Welfare
Education
- University of Cambridge (Corpus Christi College)
1 Contributions by Imogen Proud
PRACTICE NOTES
Practitioner overview of UK counter-terrorism law: definition, offences, powers, Prevent duties, HRA challenges, court procedure and sentencing
Terrorism law in the UK spans both common law and statute, encompassing a broad range of criminal offences and civil powers. The Terrorism Act 2000 (TA 2000) was crafted to serve as a comprehensive structure for counter-terrorism powers. Following the 9/11 attacks, however, the TA 2000 framework was revised and reinforced by additional legislation:
Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (ACSA 2001)
Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (PTA 2005)—subsequently repealed by the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011, s 1 (see below)
Terrorism Act 2006 (TA 2006)
Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (CTA 2008)
Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc Act 2010 (TAFA 2010)
Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (TPIMA 2011)
Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (PFA 2012)
Justice and Security Act 2013 (JSA 2013)
Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (CTSA 2015)
Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 (CTBSA 2019)
Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 (CTSA 2021)
The statutory definition of terrorism
Section 1 of the TA 2000, as amended, defines ‘terrorism’ as:
the use or threat of action where the action:
involves serious violence against a person...
Public Law
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