Jasper Gold

Jasper Gold practices broadly across Chambers’ practice areas, with particular experience in medical, public, coronial and information and data protection law, and in public inquiries. He also has a cross-disciplinary interest in human rights work, issues of which arise across his practice, and is the Co-Commissioning Editor of the UK Human Rights Blog. Jasper’s experience also encompasses commercial and contractual disputes, and he is comfortable dealing with these issues when they arise in his cases.

In 2024-25, Jasper was a judicial assistant to the High Court, working across the Administrative Court, King’s Bench Civil and Media and Communications Lists, assisting a range of judges on matters spanning public and civil law. He attended the hearings and assisted with research and drafting in cases including:

• R (BMA)  v General Medical Council [2025] EWHC 960 (Admin), the BMA’s challenge to the GMC’s manner of regulating, and nomenclature for, physician and anaesthetic associates.
• R (GB News Ltd) v OFCOM [2025] EWHC 360 (Admin)), GB News’s challenge to OFCOM’s interpretation of  the impartiality rules in the Broadcasting Code.
• RTM v Bonne Terre Ltd [2025] EWHC 111 (KB), a challenge under data protection law by a former problem gambler to the use of his personal data in targeted marketing, now a leading authority on the concept of consent in data protection law.
• Alame & Ors v Shel PLC & Anor [2025] EWHC 1539 (KB), a month-long trial of preliminary issues of law in the long running Niger Delta oil spill group litigation, spanning private and public international law, human rights, tort law, civil procedure and statutory interpretation
• Yousufi v Matharu [2025] EWHC 917 (KB), an appeal concerning the ambit and pleading requirements of the tort of causing loss by unlawful means.

Before coming to the bar, Jasper was an Oxford Human Rights Hub-Rhodes University Travelling Fellow in human rights law, spending time as a visiting fellow at Rhodes University in South Africa, and as an intern with the Legal Resources Centre, South Africa’s leading public interest law firm, assisting with constitutional rights litigation.

He also worked as a Legal Editor at tech startup Sparqa, where he researched and wrote practical legal guides on topics including discrimination, data protection, employment law and intellectual property. He has spent time as an intern and volunteer at the Hackney Migrant Centre and with Control Arms, an NGO working in arms trade monitoring.