Alex Rook
Solicitor
Rook Irwin Sweeney LLP
Alex’s work has always focused on achieving social justice. He acts for individuals, charities and companies in the full range of judicial review cases, with particular specialisms in health and social care, mental capacity and human rights law.
Alex has successfully won judicial review cases at every level within the British court system, including winning the first Supreme Court case in relation to the law on consultation (Moseley v London Borough of Haringey [2014] UKSC 56).
He has been instructed to intervene on behalf of national charities (Age UK, SENSE, RNIB, Guide Dogs for the Blind and the National Children’s Bureau) in three separate Supreme Court cases in recent years.
Over the last few years he has been instructed by non-profit organisation Good Law Project in a number of high profile cases challenging the lawfulness of Government decisions during the Covid-19 Pandemic.