Welcome.

This is the personal site of David Anderson Q.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), media work and comment on issues relating to terrorism, surveillance and counter-extremism.  Some of these – but by no means all – are subjects in which I became interested when serving between 2011 and 2017 as the UK’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation.

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

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    Ian Forrester, a Scottish QC who long practised law in Brussels, served as a Judge of the General [...]

  • Taming the Wild West

    I gave a lecture last night at Clifford Chance in London on "Taming the Wild West: Government and [...]

  • Extremism and the Law

    Extremism and the Law was the subject of my Middle Temple Treasurer's Lecture on Monday evening.  It was [...]

  • Reporting Terrorism

    This is the text of a lecture I delivered to journalism students and others at the University of Essex on [...]

  • The Fly in the China Shop

    I was invited to The Hague last month to deliver the Hague Lecture on International Law, to an invited audience [...]