Stephen Tawiah

  • Year of Call 2014

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Introduction

Introduction

Stephen Tawiah specialises in public law, sports law and regulatory law. He is also developing an international arbitration practice, with a particular focus on sports. Stephen regularly acts for and against government departments in judicial review claims. Examples of his recent work includes:

  • Acting successfully for the Claimant in judicial review proceedings against the Secretary for State for the Home Department, challenging decision not to accommodate the Claimant under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
  • Acting for the Claimant in judicial review proceedings challenging the Secretary of State for Justice’s decision to conclude a Category A review without conducting an oral hearing, on the basis that the decision did not comply with published policy and was procedurally unfair.
  • Successfully representing the Claimant in an unlawful detention claim, obtaining general damages and aggravated damages for unlawfulness of initial decision to detain and breaches of adult at risk policy. 
  • Successfully representing Claimant in a challenge to the decision of a local authority to assess the Claimant to be an adult. Obtained interim relief requiring local authority to accommodate and support the Claimant as a child.

Stephen  has a developing sports law practice. He regularly representes football players, athletes, coaches and agents in a range of disputes. In particular, Stephen advises football players and coaches on contractual disputes arising from representation agreements. Stephen has experience representing parties in sport arbitration proceedings. 

Stephen has extensive experience in the field of professional discipline and regulatory law. He regularly represents nurses, doctors and pharmacists before regulatory bodies. Stephen’s professional discipline experience covers interim order hearings and complex substantive fitness to practice hearings. Stephen is also developing a sports law practice with a focus on regulation. He has experience representing athletes, coaches and sports players in matters involving discrimination, doping charges and safeguarding.

Stephen is currently a trustee for the Bernie Grant Trust and an active member of the Labour Party. He currently serves on the executive committee of the Society of Labour Lawyers. 

Stephen is also a member of the Bar and Solicitor’s roll of the Republic of Ghana (admitted November 2022).

Inquests and Inquires

Civil

Intellectual Property

Immigration & Nationality

Qualifications

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Transparency Notice