Meg Winton

Meg practises in all areas of public law and human rights. She has a particular interest in matters which relate to the environment.

Meg also has extensive experience in regulatory work. As a solicitor she spent six-months in Linklaters’ Financial Regulation team, providing advice to financial institutions and funds on UK and EU ESG regimes.

Highlights of her experience include:

• R (GLP) v Commissioner for Equality and Human Rights [2026] EWHC 279 (Admin): a challenge to the EHRC’s interim guidance following For Woman Scotland (as a pupil, assisting Rupert Paines for the intervener).
• Jaiyeola v HMT: a challenge to the eligibility criteria for tax free childcare top ups and extended free childcare (as a pupil, assisting Hannah Slarks).
• R (Thompson) v Commissioner of Police: a challenge to the use of live facial recognition in London (as a pupil, assisting Raphael Hogarth).
• Acting for Camelot in its judicial review and procurement challenge to the Fourth National Lottery Licence (including successfully seeking permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal) (as a solicitor).
• Acting for Annington Homes and Terra Firma in a multi-billion pound judicial review against the UK Ministry of Defence (as a solicitor).

Meg has particular interest and experience in public international law. She has worked on disputes before the ICJ, ITLOS and regional human rights bodies, as well as investor-state arbitrations. Meg’s work includes:

• Currently instructed as counsel for the Republic of Ghana in the maritime delimitation case against Togo before an ITLOS Special Chamber (led by Prof. Philippe Sands KC, Paul S. Reichler, Ruth Kennedy and Remi Reichold).
• Assisting on The Gambia’s case before the ICJ alleging that Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya people (as a pupil, assisting Prof. Philippe Sands KC, Paul S. Reichler, Ruth Kennedy and Aliya Al-Yassin).
• Advising a state on the prospects of potential interstate proceedings on issues of immunity and international cooperation (as a pupil, assisting Remi Reichold).
• Kingdom of Spain v Infrastructure Services Luxembourg S.à.r.l. & Anor: recognition and enforcement proceedings in Australia for a €101 million award turning on issues of foreign state immunity (as a judicial assistant to a Federal Court judge).

As a solicitor, Meg acted for and advised a variety of NGOs pro bono on international law, in particular on human rights and environmental issues. She has prepared submissions to a variety of human rights bodies (including the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Australian Human Rights Commission) and reviewed evidence for reports to UN bodies on Ukraine by eyeWitness to Atrocities. Most recently, she advised an NGO on issues of “loss and damage” under the COP29 New Climate Finance Goal.

At university, Meg received the University of Sydney’s Pitt Cobbett prize for placing first in Public International Law and was an Australian National Champion in the Phillip C. Jessup Moot, receiving 14^th Best Oralist in the International Rounds. She also interned at the Sydney Centre for International Law. Meg specialised in international law on the BCL, taking courses in International Environmental Law and International Law and Armed Conflict.

Meg has experience working on fast paced, high value commercial litigation (including group actions), before the High Court, the CAT and the Court of Appeal, as well as high value commercial arbitrations.

Before moving to London, Meg was a commercial litigation solicitor in Australia. She worked on large shareholder class actions brought against her corporate clients, as well as a novel climate change claim brought by the shareholders of a major financial institution in respect of its disclosure obligations.

Her experience includes acting for:

• Visa in Umbrella Interchange Fee Claimants v Mastercard and Visa: long-running CAT and High Court proceedings concerning multilateral interchange fees on card transactions (as a solicitor).
• Hg in Hg Capital v CMA [2023] CAT 52: a CAT appeal challenging a finding of abusive excessive pricing (as a solicitor).
• A mining sector client in a commodity trading dispute with a Chinese counterparty in an UNCITRAL/HKIAC-administered arbitration (as a solicitor).

Meg accepts instructions across all areas of employment law (with a particular interest in issues of discrimination). As a pupil, she worked on Peggie v Fife Health Board (as a pupil, assisting Hannah Slarks), an appeal before the Employment Appeal Tribunal which raises novel issues of sex, belief and gender discrimination in the workplace.

During her pupillage, she also worked on commercial and statutory employment matters before the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal.

Meg accepts instructions across a broad range of information, technology and media law. Meg’s recent work in this field includes:

• Farley v Equiniti (t/a Paymaster): a Supreme Court appeal listed for October 2026 which will decide whether a threshold of seriousness applies in UK data protection law (as a pupil, assisting Andrew Sharland KC and Hannah Ready).
• Kul v DWF Law LLP [2026] EWCA Civ 1130: an appeal in data protection proceedings (as a pupil, assisting Robin Hopkins KC).
• BT and Openreach v Information Commissioner [2026] UKFTT 877: an appeal before the First-tier Tribunal concerning the interpretation of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (as a pupil, assisting Rupert Paines).