David Allen Green

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David Allen Green (born 28 March 1971;{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/DavidAllenGreen/status/33826820314890240|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121210091602/http://twitter.com/DavidAllenGreen/status/33826820314890240|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 December 2012|title=I am 40 next month.|last=Green|first=David Allen|date=5 February 2011|work=Twitter|access-date=5 February 2011}}{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1092791812811620359|title=The one reason I dislike Brexit is that my birthday is the day before (the current) Brexit day but I am now so used to typing and saying "29 March", I routinely get my DoB wrong and so thrown out of things by security.|last=Green|first=David Allen|date=2019-02-05|website=@davidallengreen|access-date=2019-02-05}} 'Allen' is his second forename) is an English lawyer{{cite web|url=http://www.preiskel.com/people/david-allen-green/|title=David Allen Green|publisher=Preiskel & Co|website=preiskel.com|access-date=14 December 2010}} and writer. He is the former legal correspondent for the New Statesman;{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/david_allen_green|title=New Statesman (articles by) David Allen Green|website=newstatesman.com|access-date=14 December 2010}} writes about law and policy for the Financial Times; and has previously blogged using the pseudonym Jack of Kent.{{cite web|url=http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/|title=Jack of Kent|work=Blogger|access-date=14 December 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/analysis/1799966/ideas-law-geek-inherit|title=New ideas in law: The geek shall inherit...|last=Aldridge|first=Alex|date=21 October 2010|work=Legalweek|access-date=5 February 2011}}

Green's articles on legal matters have been published by The Guardian, The Lawyer, New Scientist, Financial Times{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614192833/http://blogs.ft.com/david-allen-green/|archivedate=2016-06-14|title=David Allen Green at ft.com|url=http://blogs.ft.com/david-allen-green/|first=David Allen|last=Green|year=2016|website=blogs.ft.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd|first=David Allen|last=Green|year=2025|title=The coming battle between social media and state: Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic - and a position of weakness rather than strength|website=ft.com}} {{subscription required}} Prospect.{{cite web|url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/david-allen-green |title=David Allen Green's columns|publisher=Prospect magazine}} and others.

Green was shortlisted for the Orwell prize for blogging in 2010 and was a judge of the same in 2011. He was also named in 2010 as one of the leading innovators in journalism and media,{{cite web|url=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/07/22/are-you-on-the-j-list-the-leading-innovators-in-journalism-and-media-in-2010/|title=Are you on the j-list? The leading innovators in journalism and media in 2010 |date=22 July 2010 |publisher=Journalism.co.uk|access-date=14 December 2010}} and in 2011 as one of the 'Hot 100' lawyers by The Lawyer.{{cite journal|year=2011|title=The Hot 100 2011|journal=The Lawyer|pages=4, 6, 10|url=http://www.centaur2.co.uk/emags/thelawyer/Hot100_2011/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106233334/http://www.centaur2.co.uk/emags/thelawyer/Hot100_2011/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-01-06}}

Education and early life

Green was born at Selly Oak Hospital{{cite web |url=http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/authors/author/david-allen-green/ |title=David Allen Green |publisher=Conville & Walsh Ltd|archive-date=8 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708192152/http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/authors/author/david-allen-green/ |url-status=dead}} and brought up in Birmingham. After attending Four Dwellings comprehensive school and Halesowen College sixth-form,{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}} he studied modern history at the University of Oxford as an undergraduate student of Pembroke College, Oxford. He subsequently studied law at the University of Birmingham.

Career

In 2012, Green was listed on the Independent on Sunday newspaper Pink List, a list of influential British LGBT people.{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-ios-pink-list-2012-8216187.html|title=The IoS Pink List 2012|work=Independent on Sunday|date=4 November 2012|access-date=4 November 2012}} On Twitter, Green said that he was bisexual{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/DavidAllenGreen/status/265055562864132096|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121210033232/https://twitter.com/DavidAllenGreen/status/265055562864132096|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 December 2012|title=Delighted to represent the usually neglected Bs in LGBT in the IoS #PinkList (no 58)|author=David Allen Green|work=Twitter|date=4 November 2012|access-date=4 November 2012}} in response to the listings. He has also said that he was "not Christened, and am still less a Christian".{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=David Allen |title=comment, under Welcome to the new blog |url=http://davidallengreen.com/2019/03/welcome-to-the-new-blog/#comment-409087 |website=davidallengreen.com |access-date=17 March 2019 |date=17 March 2019}}

= Legal career =

After being awarded the Sir Thomas More and Hardwicke Scholarships by Lincoln's Inn, Green was called to the Bar in 1999 and became a solicitor in 2001. Formerly a lawyer at Baker McKenzie, Herbert Smith, and the Treasury Solicitor, he is now (and since 2009) head of the media practice at Preiskel & Co.

He was involved on a pro bono basis with Simon Singh's successful libel defence campaign against the British Chiropractic Association.

In 2010, he advised Sally Bercow over possible libel action by think tank MigrationWatch UK and their chairman Sir Andrew Green which was later dropped.{{cite web|url=http://www.thelawyer.com/migrationwatch-drops-sally-bercow-libel-threat/1005702.article|title=Migrationwatch drops Sally Bercow libel threat|last=Dowell|first=Katy|date=7 October 2010|work=The Lawyer|access-date=20 December 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/10/defending-sally-bercow.html|title=Jack of Kent: Defending Sally Bercow|last=Allen Green|first=David|work=Blogger|access-date=20 December 2010}}

He led the defence in the Twitter Joke Trial,{{cite web|url=http://www.preiskel.com/people/david-allen-green/|title=David Allen Green - Profile from Preiskel.com|access-date=21 May 2011}} in which defendant Paul Chambers was acquitted on appeal on 27 July 2012.

=Journalism=

Green is a blogger on his own blog, and previously one under the name Jack of Kent (named after Jack o' Kent{{Cite web|url=http://jackofkent.com/about/|title = About David Allen Green – Jack of Kent|website=jackofkent.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302212515/http://jackofkent.com/about/|archivedate=2012-03-02}}), is a columnist on law and policy for the Financial Times; and has contributed to the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Lawyer, and the New Scientist in the past. He has been a guest on the Remainiacs podcast several times in 2019, and has used his expertise to explain aspects of United Kingdom constitutional law as they relate to Brexit and the 2019 British prorogation controversy.{{cite web |title=SUPREME CAUGHT? David Allen Green on the Scottish court case capers |url=https://audioboom.com/posts/7365661-supreme-caught-david-allen-green-on-the-scottish-court-case-capers |website=Audioboom |access-date=13 September 2019}}

In 2012, he gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press.{{cite web |last1=Allen Green |first1=David |title=Witness Statement of David Allen Green |url=http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Witness-Statement-of-David-Allen-Green.pdf |url-status=unfit |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140122175531/http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Witness-Statement-of-David-Allen-Green.pdf|archive-date=22 January 2014 }}