Matthew Slater undertakes Chancery, commercial and public law work, and a significant quantity of appeals, including to the UKSC and JCPC.
Appointed in 2017 to the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, Matthew has acted and advised across Central Government, including for the Ministry of Justice on prison policy, the FCO, the Home Office, the Parole Board, the Business Department, the Department for Transport concerning Battersea Power Station, HM Treasury on interest rates on unclaimed assets, the National Crime Agency on confiscations offshore, the Department for Education on teachers’ pensions and HMRC on numerous appeals, including in its attempts to reduce tax avoidance amongst the leading hedge funds. As far back as 2012, Chambers and Partners said Matthew was ‘attracting high-profile cases’.
Matthew has acted for investment banks, sovereign wealth funds, landed estates, UHNWs and overseas sovereign states and has been led by Sir James Eadie in the Supreme Court and by Sir Keir Starmer in Privy Council litigation about the constitutionality of the mandatory death penalty in Grenada.
Formerly a Fellow at Yale Law School, Matthew was, between 2012 and 2015, a Lecturer in Law at Oriel College, Oxford, having previously taught at Balliol and Magdalen. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Wills and Trusts Law Report.
In addition, between 2012 and 2014, Matthew was the Visiting Professor of Trusts at the Institute of Law in Jersey and a member, with Sir William Bailache, of the three-person Board of Examiners for the Jersey Advocates Exams.
Finally, in 2006-2007, Matthew spent a year as the Judicial Assistant to the then Senior Law Lord, Lord Bingham.
(Matthew is regulated by The BSB [Ref 49269]; insured by the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [Ref 2860/045]; and registered for VAT under the ref. 898685823.)
Matthew Slater undertakes Chancery, commercial and public law work, and a significant quantity of appeals, including to the UKSC and JCPC.
Appointed in 2017 to the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, Matthew has acted and advised across Central Government, including for the Ministry of Justice on prison policy, the FCO, the Home Office, the Parole Board, the Business Department, the Department for Transport concerning Battersea Power Station, HM Treasury on interest rates on unclaimed assets, the National Crime Agency on confiscations offshore, the Department for Education on teachers’ pensions and HMRC on numerous appeals, including in its attempts to reduce tax avoidance amongst the leading hedge funds. As far back as 2012, Chambers and Partners said Matthew was ‘attracting high-profile cases’.
Matthew has acted for investment banks, sovereign wealth funds, landed estates, UHNWs and overseas sovereign states and has been led by Sir James Eadie in the Supreme Court and by Sir Keir Starmer in Privy Council litigation about the constitutionality of the mandatory death penalty in Grenada.
Formerly a Fellow at Yale Law School, Matthew was, between 2012 and 2015, a Lecturer in Law at Oriel College, Oxford, having previously taught at Balliol and Magdalen. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Wills and Trusts Law Report.
In addition, between 2012 and 2014, Matthew was the Visiting Professor of Trusts at the Institute of Law in Jersey and a member, with Sir William Bailache, of the three-person Board of Examiners for the Jersey Advocates Exams.
Finally, in 2006-2007, Matthew spent a year as the Judicial Assistant to the then Senior Law Lord, Lord Bingham.
(Matthew is regulated by The BSB [Ref 49269]; insured by the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [Ref 2860/045]; and registered for VAT under the ref. 898685823.)
