Jasper Gold awarded scholarship to attend Advanced Trial Advocacy Course in Florida - Mar 2025
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.
- Yousufi v Matharu [2025] EWHC 917 (KB), an appeal concerning the ambit and pleading requirements of the tort of causing loss by unlawful means.
- The Niger Delta oil spill group litigation (judgment forthcoming), a month-long trial of preliminary issues of law spanning private and public international law, human rights, tort law, civil procedure and statutory interpretation.
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.
View full profile »Law Pod UK Ep. 198: Small Data: damage, distress and the development of a new type of claim - May 2024
Jasper Gold of 1 Crown Office Row joins Lucy McCann to explore “small data” claims, where data and personal injury law intersect. Law Pod UK is available on Spotify, Apple...
Jasper Gold appears at inquest into care home death - May 2024
Jasper Gold recently appeared for the family in the inquest touching the death of Edith Alden, known as Bunny. Bunny was being cared for at a residential home, but had a fall which led to her death...
“Stakeknife” – Report on Army Agent inside IRA published - Mar 2024
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has published the interim report of Operation Kenova - an independent police investigation into the Army Agent codenamed “Stakeknife” who operated...
Undercover Policing Inquiry’s Interim Report Published - Jul 2023
The Undercover Policing Inquiry’s Interim Report was published on 29th June. The report focuses on the period from 1968 – 1982 and found that the methods used by the police to gain information...
1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review – Winter 2022 – Issue 12 – May 2023 - May 2023
Welcome to the twelfth issue of the QMLR, brought to you by the barristers at 1 Crown Office Row. This issue catches up on cases from early 2022. Download the Winter 2022 newsletter here: 1COR...
1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review – Winter 2021/2022 – Issue 11 - May 2022
Welcome to the eleventh issue of the QMLR, brought to you by the barristers at 1 Crown Office Row to update you on developments in Winter 2021/2022. Download the Winter 2021/2022 newsletter here:...
1COR is pleased to announce that Jasper Gold has become a tenant - Apr 2022
We are delighted that Jasper Gold has accepted our offer of tenancy. Jasper is developing a broad practice and accepts instructions in all chambers’ practice areas. As well as clinical negligence,...
1COR Quarterly Medical Law Review – Summer/Autumn 2021 – Issue 10 - Jan 2022