Team Single

Kate Gallafent KC

  • Year of Call: 1997
  • Appointed to Silk: 2014
  • Degree: BA Hons. (Cantab), Diploma in Law, University of Westminster

Personal Experience

Kate’s practice covers all areas of Public & Regulatory work, and also includes considerable expertise of Civil Liberties & Human Rights, Employment, Professional Discipline, Sport and Data Protection, Freedom of Information & Privacy.  Kate is also a CEDR trained mediator.

Before taking Silk, Kate was a member of the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel.

Kate is recognised as a leading silk in the latest editions of both the leading legal directories, Chambers UK and The Legal 500. Recent comments include:

  • “Where a complex case comes up, we go to Kate immediately. She takes these matters in her stride and I can’t speak highly enough of her.” – Chambers UK, 2025
  • “Kate is in a class of her own. She is a tremendously gifted lawyer and also a uniquely brilliant asset as a team player. She has outstanding gifts of perception regarding witnesses and how to question them.” – Legal 500, 2025

Previous comments include:

  • “Kate is truly outstanding. She is a tremendous lawyer and advocate, and has a gift for dealing well with the most pressured and stressful matters.”- Legal 500, 2024
  • “Kate is simply brilliant. She is a really good advocate and a great person to work with.”- Chambers & Partner, 2024
  • “Kate is an excellent strategist and advocate.”- Legal 500, 2023
  • “She is intensely clever combined with pragmatism. A great advocate and a leader.”- Legal 500, 2023
  • “Kate is ferociously bright, she cuts through the issues with ease even in the most complex of cases, and her advocacy is such that she is able to adapt to the forum and instructions.”- Chambers UK, 2023

Kate was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2018.  Kate is President of the National Anti-Doping Panel.

Experience

  • Public and Regulatory Law
  • Civil Liberties & Human Rights
  • Health Care Professions Council v Beck
  • Lawn Tennis Association v An Individual
  • BBC v Sugar & Information Commissioner

Education

 

  • Academy University School of Law, Boston, MA
  • Admization Institute of Law andTechnology, Juzment School of Management,Cambridge
  • The Syntaxy High School Of New York
  • Education & Court Admissions
  • Admization Institute of Law and Technology, Juzment School of Management, Cambridge
  • Bachelor’s Degree: The first step is to obtain a bachelor’s degree, usually in any field.
  • Law School Admission Test (LSAT): After completing a bachelor’s

Skills

Sport Law
Arbitration Law
EU & Competition Law
Public & Regulatory Law
Professional Discipline

Achievements

Publications

Contributor to:

  • Human Rights Law and Practice edited by Lester & Pannick
  • Administrative Court: Practice and Procedure edited by Lang.
  • Sport: Law and Practice (edited by Lewis and Taylor).

Memberships

  • Employment Lawyers Association
  • Administrative Law Bar Association
  • Human Rights Lawyers Association
  • British Association for Sport and the Law
  • Bar European Group

Selected earlier reported cases

Public & Regulatory

  • R (Meadow) v General Medical Council [2006] EWCA Civ 1390, [2007] QB 462
  • R (Ann Summers Ltd) v Jobcentre Plus [2003] EWHC 1416 (Admin), The Times 14.7.03
  • R (Matthews) v Ministry of Defence [2003] UKHL 4, [2003] 1 AC 1163

Civil Liberties & Human Rights

  • R (AM and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA 219, (2009) ACD 38, The Times 20 March 2009
  • R (Roberts) v The Parole Board & Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 2714 , [2005] UKHL 45, [2005] 2 AC 738, Harry Roberts (Parole Board, 22 July 2009)
  • Gusinsky v Russia (European Court of Human Rights Appn. no. 70276/01, Judgment 19.5.04)

Employment

  • Young & Rubicam v Eccleshare – Kate was instructed together with Paul Goulding QC on behalf of a senior advertising executive in High Court proceedings concerning the enforceability of the restrictive covenants and garden leave provisions in his contract.
  • Bamsey v Albion Engineering Ltd (2003) ICR 1224
  • Brennan v American Express Services Europe Ltd [2003] EAT/0623/02

Professional Discipline

  • Sharief v General Medical Council [2009] EWHC 847 (Admin), (2009) LS Law Medical 389
  • Ethical Standards Officer v Patrick Joyce (The Adjudication Panel for England, APE 0445, 17 December 2009)
  • R (Meadow) v General Medical Council [2006] EWCA Civ 1390; [2007] QB 462

Sport

  • International Tennis Federation v Richard Gasquet (Court of Arbitration for Sport, 2009)
  • Lawrence Dallaglio (2008)
  • IRB v Keyter (CAS 2006/A/1067)
  • Hendry & Williams v The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association [2001] EuLR 770

Data Protection, Freedom of Information & Privacy

  • Gerry Morrissey (BECTU) v Information Commissioner & Ofcom (EA/2009/0067)
  • Civil Aviation Authority v Information Tribunal & Malcolm Kirkaldie (Information Tribunal)

Other Information

Kate was previously a Fast-stream Administrative Trainee in the Department for Education and Employment.  She worked extensively on the passage through Parliament of the Disability Discrimination Bill and on Government policy for children with Special Educational Needs.