Jonathan has been a solicitor for over ten years. He’s always worked in social welfare law, whether that is housing, community care and public law; he’s also worked for a range of law centres, NGO’s and legal aid law firms.
Jonathan was an Executive Committee member of the Discrimination Law Association for three years, and is currently a committee member of the Disabled Solicitors Network of the Law Society. He’s am keen to apply anti-discrimination law to how the clients of Release are treated by public bodies, whether the discrimination is because of a history or present of substance misuse or a combination of various types of discrimination because of intersectionality. He’s also undertaking a part-time MPhil/PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London.