Deok Joo Rhee KC Nominee for UK Judge to the ECtHR

We are delighted to announce that 39 Essex Chambers’ Barrister Deok Joo Rhee KC is one of three nominees for the post of UK Judge to the European Court of Human Rights.

Following a UK selection exercise, the Lord Chancellor has recommended a shortlist of three candidates to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The second stage will take place in the Council of Europe, where the PACE Committee on the Election of Judges conducts interviews of the candidates before they are presented to the PACE plenary for election to take place in June 2025.

Deok Joo’s practice spans constitutional, administrative, human rights, EU and related areas of public international law.  She is experienced before domestic specialist and appellate courts and has appeared in multiple jurisdictions (including before the CJEU and the courts of the British Overseas Territories).  Deok Joo has been instructed in landmark cases across her areas of practice. She has a particular expertise and interest in matters involving the intersection of multiple legal systems (domestic, European and international) and in the interface between economic and social policy.