Welcome.
This is the personal site of David Anderson K.C.
My legal practice is managed by my clerks at Brick Court Chambers: please contact them if you have a query relating to professional instructions. The Chambers site also has more about my professional record and interests.
The purpose of this website is to bring together the things I do and will in the future do outside my legal practice. These include academic and legal writing (often on security, European and Brexit-related issues), parliamentary work, media work and comment on issues relating to terrorism, surveillance and counter-extremism.
Copies of all my reports, articles and blog posts produced as Independent Reviewer can be accessed through the archived versions of the Independent Reviewer’s website.
Feel free to contact me at any time, and to follow me on twitter @bricksilk.
Featured articles
Writing a Constitution
I gave a lecture last night to the Statute Law Society on the subject of Writing a [...]
Investigatory Powers Act Review
My independent Investigatory Powers Act review was announced on 17 January. I am conducting the review [...]
National Security and the Law
"National Security and the Law" was the subject of this year's Birkenhead Lecture. It contains a description [...]
The Lords and the Law
What use is the House of Lords? What contribution is made by peers with experience as lawyers [...]
Parliament should resist this executive power grab
The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill raises serious concerns for legal certainty and - more [...]