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22 Mar 2021 11:20
Women are complicated and so is rape.Sexual offences are very complicated. Most happen behind closed doors involving two adults and no other witnesses. The two adults’ perceptions of what happened may differ. If things go very wrong, it is often one person’s word against another. Our adversarial criminal justice system is profoundly more...
22 Mar 2021 11:18
Re B: soldiers and the criminal process in Northern IrelandRe B’s application [2020] NIQB 76 was a challenge to a decision to prosecute a soldier for offences going back to 1972. Part of the small but politically divisive cohort of prosecutions arising out of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Re B provides a classic example of how courts approach the issue more...
22 Mar 2021 11:14
3PB’s Simon Lillington successful in mansion dispute between businesswoman and her millionaire former partner3PB family barrister Simon Lillington has helped his client businesswoman Sharon Blades win half of the £2.5m mansion that her former partner paid for, but registered in both their names. The dispute – which attracted widespread media coverage including this feature in the Daily Mail - between Dr more...
22 Mar 2021 11:06
Kristian Cavanagh secures only acquittal in multi-handed Class A drugs trialKristian Cavanagh from Exchange Chambers, instructed by Conspiracy Solicitors (a trading style of Bird and Co Solicitors LLP) has secured an acquittal for his client in a multi-handed conspiracy to supply Class A drugs trial. Kristian Cavanagh’s client, LB, was the only defendant who was acquitted more...
22 Mar 2021 11:00
John Wyn Williams prosecutes two defendants who receive 16-year sentences for sex offencesJohn Wyn Williams from Exchange Chambers successfully prosecutes two men who raped a young boy. David Bradbury, 55, and William Gamble, 65, from St Helens, were arrested on October 26 last year. Their crimes were uncovered when an indecent image of a different child was uploaded to Facebook. Police more...
IsZo Capital v Nam Tai; $170m allotment of shares set aside for improper purpose
IsZo Capital LP v Nam Tai Property Inc BVIHC (COM) 2020/0165 An Erskine Chambers team, comprising Martin Moore QC, Edward Davies QC and Ben Griffiths, together with Ogier counsel, Nick Burkill, succeeded in obtaining orders setting aside a $170 million allotment of shares in Nam Tai Property Inc. more...
Immigration Law Webinar - Quotes from Classic Immigration Cases: Old & New
Immigration Law Webinar - Quotes from Classic Immigration Cases: Old & New ‘Deportation, Article 8, Long Residence, Credibility, Asylum, EEA Law and much more’ In this webinar I go through some of my recent immigration law images which I have posted online. The webinar covers recent and older more...
16 Mar 2021 12:44
The road to Silk: How Giles Maynard-Connor QC achieved his career dreamGiles Maynard-Connor QC is a name that sounds right at home in the upper echelons of the legal profession. But this down to earth Yorkshireman does not fit the stereotype of a lawyer born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Giles’ elevation to silk, which takes effect today (15 March 2021), is the more...
16 Mar 2021 12:39
DAVID SCHMITZ WRITES ‘STUDENT LETTINGS: FRUSTRATION AND THE PANDEMIC’The Property Law Journal of Legalease has published on-line an article by David Schmitz, on whether occupiers can get out of contracts and leases for student accommodation, if they have not been able to attend university because of Covid 19 restrictions. The full article can be found here. This more...
16 Mar 2021 12:29
David Richards successfully prosecutes skipper in Sussex triple-drownings caseDavid Richards, Head of 3PB’s Marine Group, successfully prosecuted David Marr for failing to keep a proper lookout as master of the fishing vessel Vertrouwen, as a result of which three men, out for a night’s recreational fishing off the coast of Sussex, were killed. The incident happened just more...
16 Mar 2021 12:26
The Weekly Round-Up: Women’s Rights – a Long Way to GoIn the news: Women’s rights and gender equality issues have been at the forefront of the news this week. The appalling murder of Sarah Everard, abducted when walking home in London, has elicited a huge social media response. In particular, it has highlighted the problematic phenomenon of more...
16 Mar 2021 10:23
MA Briefing - Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThe MA has produced a briefing on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill coming before Parliament this week. The briefing includes our members' views on: Increased maximum sentence for assaults against emergeny workers Serious violence duty Pre-charge Bail Prisoner custody officers Aggravated more...
15 Mar 2021 12:46
Environmental Law News UpdateIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, Charles Morgan and Christopher Badger consider the Supreme Court decision on parent company liability in Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell plc, another case concerning the scope of the Environment Agency’s liabilities in common law negligence and environmental more...
15 Mar 2021 12:43
International Women’s Day 2021: choose to challengeCarly Sandbach In recent years we have charted and celebrated the journey of women in law since the introduction of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 just over 100 years ago, which first made it possible for women to qualify as barristers or solicitors. Huge progress has been made in the more...
15 Mar 2021 12:38
‘Revenge porn’ is a misnomerWhy we should replace ‘revenge porn’ with ‘image based sexual abuse’ and reform the mens rea of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 The digital world is becoming an increasingly dominant part of daily life. This has been thrown into sharp relief by the current public health crisis, which has more...
15 Mar 2021 12:34
Two important points to consider in international child abduction cases following Dorian Day and Sarah Tierney's success in the CoADorian Day and Sarah Tierney successfully represented the Appellant mother in Re G (Abduction: Consent/Discretion) [2021] EWCA Civ 139. The case highlights two important points for practitioners to consider in international child abduction cases: The exercise of judicial discretion under Article 13 more...
The mystery of the Gatwick drone
A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the Sussex sky? Soon after 9pm on Wednesday 19 December 2018, an airport security officer who had just finished his shift more...
What’s relevant for Drone Operators when the drone crashes – lessons learned from Alauda Airspeeder MkII?
What’s relevant for Drone Operators when the drone crashes – lessons learned from Alauda Airspeeder MkII? Having reviewed the 65 pages of the AAIB-25876 report in respect of the Alauda Airspeeder MkII owned by Riotplan Proprietary Limited trading as Alauda Racing crash on 4 July 2019 at Goodwood more...
10 Mar 2021 16:47
Please donate to Advocate on PC renewal“I donate to Advocate because barristers who do pro bono work through Advocate provide a vital public service to those who would not otherwise be able to enforce their legal rights.” Derek Sweeting QC, Chair of the Bar Council Please support access to justice through Advocate, the Bar’s pro bono more...
The New Graduate Immigration Route
New Video - The New Graduate Immigration Route In this Immigration Law Update Video I look at Appendix Graduate introduced by HC 1248 which comes into force on 1st July 2021. The Graduate route is for international students who want to work following the successful completion of a course of study at more...
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