21 Facts About Theodore Huckle

Theodore Huckle was admitted to Lincoln's Inn as a Hardwick Entrance Scholar and was in 1984 awarded the Megarry Major Scholarship.

Theodore Huckle was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2011.

In 2012 Theodore Huckle was elected a Master of the Bench of Lincoln's Inn.

In 2016 Theodore Huckle was appointed visiting professor of Law the King's College, London and took up the role of General Editor of the Butterworths' Personal Injury Litigation Service.

Theodore Huckle is accredited as a mediator by ADR Group and QC Mediation, and as an arbitrator as a founder member of PIcARBS.

Theodore Huckle appeared for the Claimant Ms Baker in the first case of industrial "deafness" to be considered in the Supreme Court : Baker v Quantum Clothing [2011] UKSC 17; [2011] 1 WLR 1003; [2011] ICR 523; [2011] PIQR P14.

Theodore Huckle was appointed Counsel General Designate by the First Minister on 27 May 2011.

The Counsel General has certain functions to be exercised independent of the Government, including the ability to refer Bills of the National Assembly to the Supreme Court for a decision on their legislative competence, which power Theodore Huckle exercised on one occasion.

Theodore Huckle is the first and, to date, only person not an Assembly Member to hold the office of Counsel General to the Welsh Government as a member of the Government and the only practising lawyer to hold this office.

Theodore Huckle attended Cabinet at the invitation of the First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones.

Theodore Huckle left the role in May 2016, at the end of the term of the Third Assembly and upon the formation of a new Welsh Government.

Theodore Huckle appeared before the Supreme Court to make oral representations on behalf of the Welsh Government.

Theodore Huckle argued that the National Assembly for Wales was a democratically elected legislature and that the limits of its powers were set out in the Government of Wales Act 2006 which expressly enables the Assembly to make laws in the same way that the Westminster Parliament makes laws, so that the laws of the Assembly are to be viewed as equivalent in status to those of Westminster provided the Assembly is otherwise acting within the scope of its devolved authority.

On 27 March 2012, Theodore Huckle launched a public debate on whether Wales should be a separate legal jurisdiction by making a formal statement to the National Assembly for Wales and issuing a Welsh Government Consultation.

Theodore Huckle leads for Welsh Government on this issue in order to promote and facilitate the public debate.

Theodore Huckle appeared for the Welsh Government before the UK Supreme Court in response to the first Reference of this type under s112 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 by the Attorney General for England and Wales of the Local Government Byelaws Bill 20, the first of the new Welsh Acts to be passed by the National Assembly.

Theodore Huckle again appeared for the Welsh Government to argue that the Assembly does have competence to legislate with respect to employment rights and law provided that the provisions doing so "relate to" a devolved subject, in this case agriculture.

Theodore Huckle referred this Bill for decision, to date the first and only exercise by a devolved law officer of the power to refer a Bill of the devolved legislature for decision.

Theodore Huckle appeared on the Reference which considered the competence of the National Assembly to pass a Bill providing for the recovery of medical costs from compensators in claims for asbestos injury in the way provided for in accident cases under the Social Security legislation.

Theodore Huckle is the Executive Committee Member for Wales of the Personal Injury Bar Association.

Theodore Huckle is Chair of Welsh Rowing and was Home Nations Director of British Rowing during 2020.