Stephen Grosz
Partner and Head of Public Law and Human Rights
Public Law and Human Rights
Stephen is Head of Public Law and Human Rights at Bindmans LLP. He specialises in public and administrative law and human rights cases, both before the domestic courts and in the Strasbourg and Luxembourg courts. Stephen has advised and represented both the Law Society and the Bar Council in challenges to legal aid changes. He advises the Equitable Members Action Group on public law matters arising out of Parliamentary Ombudsman investigations. He is currently advising on the lawfulness of rules preventing HIV-positive healthcare workers from practising, and on the need for a public inquiry into undercover police infiltration of protest groups. He has also acted in human rights cases against France, Turkey, Latvia, Romania, Hungary and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Past cases include:
- Marshall v Southampton & S W Hampshire Area Health Authority:
concerning sex discrimination in retirement ages, and the level of compensation payable in sex discrimination claims.
- Lustig-Prean v UK:
concerning the ban on gays and lesbians in the armed forces.
- Sutherland v UK:
a case about discrimination in the age of consent for gay men.
- Ghaidan v Mendoza:
about the succession rights for survivors of gay relationships.
- R v Foreign Secretary ex parte World Development Movement:
about development aid for the Pergau Dam.
Stephen is a member of the Law Society’s Human Rights Committee; a member of the Council and Executive Committee of JUSTICE; a member of the advisory council of the British Institute of Human Rights; vice-chair of the management committee of the Human Rights Lawyers’ Association; a member of the editorial board of Judicial Review Quarterly; and a member of the Advisory Committee of the College of Law.
He is co-author of Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom (Sweet & Maxwell, 2008). He is also the co-author, with Peter Duffy QC and Sir Jack Beatson, of Human Rights: the 1998 Act and the European Convention (Sweet & Maxwell, 2000), and a columnist on human rights for the Law Society’s Gazette.
Stephen graduated in law from Clare College Cambridge in 1974, and has a post-graduate law degree (Licence spéciale en droit européen) from the University of Brussels (1976).
What the professional directories say
Stephen Grosz is “a long-standing superstar, very impressive in cases at the upper end of difficulty and exceptionally good with clients.” (Chambers 2011)
Stephen is very highly regarded within the profession by both his peers, and in the professional legal directories (Chambers and Legal 500).
Chambers 2011
Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant (Band 1)
Civil Liberties (Star Individuals)
Police Law: Mainly Claimant (Band 3)
Stephen's full profile and ranking status on Chambers 2010
Chambers 2010
Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant (Ranked as a Star performer)
Civil Liberties: Best of the UK (Ranked as a Star performer)
Stephen's full profile and ranking status on Chambers 2010
Chambers 2009
Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant (Ranked as a Star performer)
Civil Liberties: Best of the UK (Ranked as a Star performer)
Legal 500 (2010)
Administrative & public law: ranked in 1st tier - Leading Individual
Civil liberties & human rights: ranked in 1st tier - Leading Individual
Stephen's full profile in Legal 500 (2010)
Legal 500 (2009)
Administrative & public law: ranked in 1st tier - Leading Individual
Civil liberties & human rights: ranked in 1st tier - Leading Individual
Stephen's full profile in Legal 500 (2009)