Jasper Gold

Public Law

Jasper accepts instructions across a range of public law areas, often with a medical, data/information or coronial element but also more generally and including regulatory public law. His experience in public law includes:

• Advising a government department in connection with a judicial review raising issues at the intersection of data protection and healthcare (led by Amy Mannion).
• Acting for the Ministry of Justice in a claim for damages for false imprisonment by a prisoner alleging that he had been wrongly recalled from release on license. The claim raised issues at the intersection of public and tort law.
• Acting for the Department for Work and Pensions in a challenge by judicial review to the methods by which Child Maintenance Support was calculated.
• Acting for members of a GPs’ practice in a challenge to the decision of an NHS Integrated Care Board on grounds of procedural irregularity. The decision was withdrawn following the letter before action.
• Advising a government department in connection with a proposed challenge to the lawfulness of a policy concerning modern slavery (led by Andrew Deakin).
• Advising a statutory corporation on the domestic implications of a proposed regulatory amendment by a foreign regulator, encompassing treaty law, data protection, human rights, employment law and health and safety regulations (with Alasdair Henderson).
• Advising  a multi-national manufacturer of internet-of-things products on compliance with new domestic regulatory requirements pertaining to cyber-security under the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022.
• Operation Kenova: Jasper was instructed as junior to Oliver Sanders KC advising on the Maxwellisation of the Operation Kenova interim report.

As a judicial assistant in the administrative court in 2024-5, Jasper assisted with legal research and drafting in a number of public law matters, working with several judges including Mr Justice Chamberlain, the judge in charge of the Administrative Court List. The cases he worked on included:

• 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 int he Broadcasting Code.
• Jones v Shropshire Council [2025] EWHC 365 (Admin), concerning a question of interpretation of the Limitation Act 1980 on whether the council’s decision to issue a stop notice under the CIL Regulations was subject to to a statutory limitation period.
• R (Watson) v The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police [2025] EWHC 332 (Admin), concerning the Defendant’s decision to take no further action in relation to a complaint about allegedly criminally abusive tweets.

Jasper also has a range of academic experience in public law, including time spent researching constitutional remedies as the Oxford Human Rights Hub-Rhodes University Travelling Fellow in human rights law at Rhodes University, South Africa. He has given lectures on topics including the separation of powers and legitimate expectations. He also assisted on a number of public law matters as a pupil, including Richards v Environment Agency and another [2022] EWCA Civ 26, a case raising novel issues about the limits of declaratory relief.

In appropriate cases, Jasper is happy to consider acting pro-bono.