Jo Moore

Jo is regularly instructed by both claimants and defendants in a broad range of clinical negligence matters. She has a busy caseload, including working on all aspects of very high value matters as a junior to multiple silks, and in her own right. She has a particular interest in the law of limitation, and in fundamental dishonesty as it applies to costs in medical negligence/PI cases.

The Legal 500 recommends Jo Moore for clinical negligence in the 2024 Guide, with clients saying “Jo is excellent. She is extremely bright and incisive and her pleadings and judgement in relation to quantum matters are spot on .” Jo is also recommended by Chambers UK, where she is described as “simply incredible at what she does … three steps ahead of everyone else”.

Selected Cases

• Advising on quantum and achieving settlement in a seven-figure claim resulting from negligent management of postoperative complications following surgery.
• Securing an eight-figure settlement on behalf of a claimant who had suffered a severe hypoxic ischaemic injury owing to the negligent management of labour, led by Henry Witcomb KC
• Successfully resisting an application to withdraw a pre-action admission, where Jo had also represented the family of the Deceased at the inquest: Somoye v North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust [2023] EWHC 191 (KB), 193 BMLR 190

Jo frequently appears in the Employment Tribunal in a range of cases, from discrimination and equality to unpaid wages and dismissal. She has experience in acting in complex trials, as well as representing parties in judicial mediation and in an advisory capacity. Jo is also interested in the intersection between employment and public law, and acted for the civil servant trade union FDA in a judicial review which turned in part on the terms of their engagement by the government.

Selected Cases

• Chapman v Secretary of State for Justice (2023). Jo acted for the Respondent in this claim brought by a Trainee Probation Officer, who alleged constructive unfair dismissal. Following a four-day hearing with eight witnesses, Employment Judge Russell, sitting in the Employment Tribunal in Cardiff, found that there had been no repudiatory breach of the employee’s contract by the Respondent, and dismissed her claim in full.
• Mendez v Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (2023). Jo represented ACAS, defending a claim in which the Claimant alleged constructive unfair dismissal, unlawful deductions from wages, direct and indirect disability discrimination and failure to make reasonable adjustments. The Employment Tribunal unanimously determined that none of the claims were well-founded, and dismissed each of them. The ET further noted that a number of the claims were out of time, and would have declined to extend its jurisdiction if the claims had not been otherwise dismissed.
• Clements v Secretary of State for Justice and another (2022). Jo represented the Respondent in a successful application for strike out. The Claim related to an alleged health and safety detriment (s. 44(1A) Employment Rights Act 1996), in light of the Claimant leaving his place of work due to alleged Covid-19 related concerns. Jo also represented the Respondent in a subsequent costs application, recovering over £50,000 of the costs of defending the Claim.
• Kelly’s Nails v HMRC: Representing HMRC, recovering sums owed to employees following an unlawful failure to pay the national minimum wage.

Jo appeared in a large number of linked cases regarding British Overseas Citizenship (‘BOC’) status and British nationality, acting as junior for Sarabjit Singh KC.

She was also instructed by the Home Office in multiple judicial review proceedings in the High Court and Upper Tribunal involving children dispersed from the camp in Calais, and in an Article 8 and Dublin III matter before both the Upper Tribunal and the Court of Appeal.

She has advised in a wide range of cases, including on EEA nationals, free movement and immigration detention.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Jo undertook a pro bono internship at a firm of immigration solicitors. She has a master’s degree in Global Migration from UCL where she studied international human rights law, international refugee law and European migration law.

Selected Cases

• FWF & Anr v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 88: Court of Appeal case concerning the relationship between EU law and Article 8 of the ECHR in international protection determinations.
• R (MK) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 3573: Complex judicial review involving a systemic challenge to the speed of Home Office decision-making in respect of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
• R (Hassan & others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department 2019 EWHC 1288 (Admin)
• R (Othman) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 340 (Admin)
• R (Hassan and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 1288 (Admin)
• R (Suleiman) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWHC 2273 (Admin)

Jo has significant experience in a broad range of inquests.

She is recommended as a leading junior in the Legal 500 2025 Guide: “‘Jo is highly intelligent and adds great value to every matter she is involved in. She is very practical, approachable and tenacious.” Jo is also ranked as a leading junior in the Chambers UK Bar 2025, which describes her as “just really robust in court. She has brilliant attention to detail and great people skills.”

Selected Cases

• Acting for the family of Chloe Every, a young woman with learning difficulties who died while awaiting cancer treatment (pro bono).
• Acting for the family of a man who was found unresponsive while held in an inpatient psychiatric ward, in a jury inquest spanning eight days.
• Representing the Ministry of Justice in a jury prison death inquest.
• Representing the family of a university student who took his own life while under the care of university and local NHS mental health teams.

Jo acts for both claimants and defendants in personal injury matters. She regularly appears in fast-track and small claims personal injury trials, and advises in writing and conference.

She has been instructed in a number of claims based on the occupiers’ liability acts, along with claims brought on the basis of unlawful information disclosure resulting in psychiatric injury.

Jo was instructed by the Government Legal Department in the Kenya Emergency Group Litigation (the ‘Mau Mau’ litigation) during which she gained considerable personal injury and human rights experience, with a special focus on colonial legislation and limitation.

Along with her specialist immigration work, Jo has a keen interest in public law generally, and the intersection of public law, employment, and medical care and ethics.

She has appeared on a pro bono basis in appeals against the Department for Work and Pensions’ assessment of Personal Injury Payment (PIP) entitlement, successfully representing appellants in both the First-Tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal.

Jo was led in a complex judicial review involving a systemic challenge to the speed of Home Office decision-making in respect of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Jo, led by Tom Hickman KC, also represented the civil servant union FDA in its challenge to Rwanda removals guidance (R. (on the application of FDA) v Minister for the Cabinet Office [2024] EWHC 1729 (Admin), [2024] A.C.D. 99).

During her pupillage at 1COR, Jo worked on a wide variety of public law cases including drafting submissions to the Supreme Court and producing written observations for the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of the UK.

Jo was assistant editor of De Smith’s Judicial Review, third supplement to the Seventh Edition (Sweet and Maxwell, 2016). Listen to Jo discuss A Rogue Prorogation on episode 94 of our podcast Law Pod UK here.

Jo accepts instructions in a variety of Sports law cases, particularly those with a focus on sports injury and regulatory offences relating to doping.

She is a member of the Sport Resolutions pro bono panel, and has represented a number of athletes pro bono, assisting in both English and French. She also undertakes independent reviews of ‘case to answer’ determinations for UK Anti-Doping. Listen to Jo discuss assessing negligence in football tackles in Episode 197, LawPod UK.

Jo uses her personal injury specialist knowledge when acting in sports injury cases. She has represented an injured golfer in a case regarding allegedly unsafe facilities, drawing on expert evidence on course design and safety regulations. She also acted for a defendant in a claim regarding a career-ending injury suffered by the claimant during a recreational football match, which was the result of an allegedly negligent high tackle.

Her knowledge of medical law and experience of medico-legal expert witnesses is particularly useful where there is contested evidence about the nature or timing of alleged Use of prohibited substances.

In UKAD v Miles Normandale SR/NADP/86/2019, Jo represented a semi-professional rugby player subject to an adverse analytical finding. In a one-day hearing before the National Anti-Doping Panel, Jo cross-examined an expert on Forensic Science & Drug Monitoring who co-founded the UK’s only World Anti-Doping Agency accredited laboratory. She successfully argued that the athlete’s use of Clomiphene had occurred at a time when he had no foreseeable return to sport, and that his violation was not intentional.

Jo was trained during pupillage by the Bar’s leading sports law junior, during which time she assisted across a range of sports matters, including intellectual property, employment law, and public law. She gained experience of FA Rule K arbitrations and other player/agent regulatory and contractual issues.

Jo is particularly interested in head injuries, and issues surrounding the duty of care towards players and athletes