Stephen Tawiah

  • Year of Call 2014

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Introduction

Introduction

Stephen Tawiah specialises in public law, public inquiries, professional discipline and prison law. Examples of his recent work include:

  • Public Inquiries: Instructed by the Department of Health and Social Care as junior counsel at the Infected Blood Inquiry; Instructed as junior counsel to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry; Currently instructed as junior counsel to the Undercover Policing Inquiry; Currently instructed as junior counsel for the Royal Military Police at the Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan.
  • Acting successfully for the Claimant in judicial review proceedings against the Secretary for State for the Home Department, challenging decision not to accommodate the Claimant under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
  • Acting for the Claimant in judicial review proceedings challenging the Secretary of State for Justice’s decision to conclude a Category A review without conducting an oral hearing, on the basis that the decision did not comply with published policy and was procedurally unfair.
  • Successfully representing the Claimant in an unlawful detention claim, obtaining general damages and aggravated damages for unlawfulness of initial decision to detain and breaches of adult at risk in immigration detention policy.  
  • Acting in a prison law discrimination claim under the Equality Act 2010 concerning failure by prison service to provide halal food for Muslim prisoner.
  • Successfully representing Claimant in a challenge to the decision of a local authority to assess the Claimant to be an adult. Obtained interim relief requiring local authority to accommodate and support the Claimant as a child.

Stephen has extensive experience in the field of professional discipline and regulatory law. He regularly represents nurses, doctors and pharmacists before regulatory bodies. Stephen’s professional discipline experience covers interim order hearings and complex substantive fitness to practice hearings. Stephen is also developing a sports law practice with a focus on regulation. He has experience representing athletes, coaches and sports players in matters involving discrimination, doping charges and safeguarding.

Stephen is currently a trustee for the Bernie Grant Trust.

Stephen is also a member of the Bar and Solicitor’s roll of the Republic of Ghana (admitted November 2022).

Inquests and Inquires

Civil

Intellectual Property

Immigration & Nationality

Qualifications

GDPR Notice

Transparency Notice