Kate Markus
Kate Markus has a public law and human rights practice which involves housing, community care, mental health, health services, asylum support, children, education and prisoners rights. She also acts in a range of other public law cases: planning and environment, local government, voluntary sector funding and local service provision. Until 1994 Kate was a senior legal adviser at Brent Community Law Centre and she was chair of the Law Centres Federation for a number of years. Until 1998 she was honorary fellow in community law practice at the University of Kent. She was a member of the Legal Aid Board between 1993 and 1998 and has chaired the Bar Council's working group on the community legal service. She was also a member of ICSTIS, the watchdog for premium rate telephone services, between 1994 and 2003. She is a member of the management committee of the Public Law Project, of which she is a founding director and was chair for many years. More recently, Kate has chaired the independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Mariam Miles, the report of which was published by NHS London in December 2006.
