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20 Jul 2021 10:00
Gatehouse Chambers goes live and moves premises!Following our press release last month, Hardwicke officially changed its name to Gatehouse Chambers yesterday, 19 July 2021. The change in name also coincides with Gatehouse Chambers’ move to state of the art and impressive new premises at 1 Lady Hale Gate, Gray’s Inn. Although sad to leave more...
Deprivation of Citizenship and Home Office Delay
New Video: Deprivation of Citizenship and Home Office Delay In this immigration law update video I look at deprivation of citizenship, deprivation appeals and Home Office delay. I consider the recent case of Laci v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 769 (20 May 2021). more...
13 Jul 2021 10:26
Part 36 Liability Offers: A WarningDavid Knifton QC We are all familiar with Part 36 offers… or at least we think we are. A recent case has taught me that the provisions of CPR 36 are rather less than clear when it comes to making offers on liability alone, and that in some circumstances a claimant would be better advised to make a more...
13 Jul 2021 10:09
EVAN PRICE SUCCESSFULLY OPPOSES AN APPLICATIONEvan Price successfully opposes an application by the Trustee of a Discretionary will trust, seeking court approval for a proposed distribution. The claim was found to be improperly constituted since certain discretionary objects were not parties to the proceedings and no provision had been made for more...
5 Jul 2021 14:36
Ségolène Lapeyre and Hugh-Guy Lorriman on the recognition of French PACS under the amended Civil Partnership Act 20043PB Family barrister Ségolène Lapeyre and Civil law barrister Hugh-Guy Lorriman have co-authored an article for Rayden Solicitors’ Anglo-French blog on the recognition of French PACS under the amended Civil Partnership Act 2004. The article highlights the significance of including opposite-sex more...
5 Jul 2021 14:32
Louis Browne QC and Anja Lansbergen-Mills repel challenge into lawfulness of £102.6 million Government PPE contractLouis Browne QC and Anja Lansbergen-Mills from Exchange Chambers, instructed by SFR Law and Brabners LLP, have successfully repelled a challenge into the lawfulness of a £102.6 million Government PPE contract. This matter arose out of a claim for judicial review, whereby the Good Law Project, a more...
5 Jul 2021 14:27
“Transferring to the Bar was surprisingly easy,” says Steven FennellIn the latest in a series of articles by members of our commercial team, Steven Fennell explains why he transferred from private practice to the Bar. Steven specialises in commercial, financial and insolvency litigation and professional negligence and regulatory matters for the legal and accountancy more...
5 Jul 2021 14:25
Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2021] UKSC 20A controversial simplification of the law on the scope of duty of professional advisors… Giles Maynard-Connor QC and Jodie Wildridge Introduction Briefly put, the House of Lords decision in Banque Bruxelles Lambert SA v Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd: South Australia Asset Management Corpn v York more...
5 Jul 2021 13:52
‘Hybrid’ Trials – Are We Ready?This article was originally published in AvMA Lawyers Service Newsletter June 2021. In this article, Lee Speakman candidly draws on and shares his own experience of representing a claimant in a complex clinical negligence case. I’ve recently had the privilege to represent at trial a man who sadly more...
5 Jul 2021 13:33
Oliver Ingham in key Inheritance Act caseIn 2020, Cohen J issued his decision in Re H [2020] EWHC (Fam) 1134 which found for the first time that a Court could order an Estate to pay for a CFA Uplift as part of an award under the Inheritance Act 1975. Further, an award was made by video link in circumstances where the Defendant (who was more...
Article 8 & Adult Relatives
New Immigration Update Video: Article 8 & Adult Relatives In this immigration law update I consider the recent Court of Appeal decision in Mobeen v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 886 (14 June 2021) which looks are Article 8 family life and adult relatives. more...
29 Jun 2021 11:22
When Should You Choose A Settlement?Legal disputes have many stages before they reach a judge to deliver a verdict, for both civil and criminal cases. Continue reading here https://www.hillhousechambers.co.uk/post/when-should-you-choose-a-settlement more...
Qualifying Children & the Reasonableness Test
Immigration Law Update Video: Qualifying Children & the Reasonableness Test In this video I look at qualifying children under 276ADE(1)(iv) & §117B(6) and the latest decision from the Court of Appeal, NA (Bangladesh) & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 953 (24 more...
Appendix EU Zambrano Applications by those with Limited Leave to Remain
New Video: Appendix EU Zambrano Applications by those with Limited Leave to Remain In this video I consider the recent case of Akinsanya, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 1535 (Admin) (09 June 2021) which found the definition of ‘a person with a more...
23 Jun 2021 10:09
Hardwicke to become Gatehouse ChambersHardwicke Chambers is proud to announce that from next month it will be operating as Gatehouse Chambers. During the course of 2020 and the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd, a number of legal bloggers started to investigate historic legal figures, including Lord more...
23 Jun 2021 09:31
Article 2, Arguability and Automatic CasesR (Morahan) v HM Coroner for West London [2021] EWHC 1603 (Admin) 11.6.21 here Arguments about the application of Article 2 ECHR remain one of the most taxing legal issues in the coronial jurisdiction. That the European Convention was never intended to be applied as fixed black letter law, but to more...
21 Jun 2021 15:58
Simon Taube QC appears before Privy Council in ITG Ltd and others (Respondents) v Fort Trustees Ltd and another (Appellants) (Guernsey)The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is considering whether the assets of an insolvent trust should be distributed on a pari passu basis between former and current trustees or between the same as ranked according to time? Does a trustee or former trustee have priority for sums claimed by it more...
21 Jun 2021 15:48
Sharing data with crime reduction partnershipsR (on the application of M) v Chief Constable of Sussex [2021] EWCA Civ 42 is an important decision from the Court of Appeal regarding an information sharing agreement (“ISA”) between a police force and a local business crime reduction partnership (“BCRP”). The ISA was held not to breach the Data more...
21 Jun 2021 14:54
Barely legal? The experience of remote tribunal hearingsLast week two experiences brought home how wary we should be of assuming that remote communication is as good as in person. I went to my first in-person conference for a long time in a hotel near Woking. It was a socially distanced conference on police custody. For the most part it felt like going more...
17 Jun 2021 13:15
Things are hotting up! A Midsummer’s holiday guide for employersNext week marks both this year’s summer solstice and Midsummer’s Day in the UK, and with the weather hotting up we’ve got summer holidays on our mind! If your business’s holiday year tracks the calendar year, you might also be approaching the midway point. Whilst you might typically be able to rely more...
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