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13 Nov 2019 12:25
No5 barrister prosecutes in Old Bailey ‘terror website’ trialCounsel at No5 Barristers’ Chambers is prosecuting a case in which volunteers are accused of running a ‘terror website’ and spreading the messages of a convicted hate preacher. The Old Bailey heard that Mohammed Kamali, 31, and Mohammed Amad, 38, allegedly published sermons given by Abdullah more...
11 Apr 2019 11:54
Defendant accused of belonging to National Action, a proscribed terrorist organisation.Alan Kent QC represented Michal Trubini at the Old Bailey who was accused of belonging to National Action, a proscribed terrorist organisation. Following a 5 week trial and 48 hours of deliberations, the jury failed to reach a verdict. This was the second time a jury failed to reach a verdict in the more...
3 Apr 2019 09:52
Aaron Moss obtains high-profile Terrorist Account Freezing OrderOfficers of the Metropolitan Police Service’s National Terrorist Financial Investigations Unit - the NTFIU - have obtained an Account Freezing Order in relation to Rizlaine Boular’s bank account. Rizlaine Boular was convicted at the Central Criminal Court, alongside her sister and mother, in 2018 more...
27 Feb 2019 12:51
Blackburn man collected extremist magazines on phoneJonathan Page, instruced by Stephen Lickrish & Associates, represented FA, who was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment for possessing extreme terror-related articles over a period of 6 years. The sentence reflected the defendant’s ASD diagnosis for which a psychologist with expertise in more...
Enough is enough
For Shamima Begum, the Jihadi bride, the saga goes on and on and on. In short, after 5 years with Isis, she has had enough and wants to come home. By home, I mean Bethnal Green and not the crushing poverty of Bangladesh where she and her family originated. According to the latest opinion polls, more...
18 Feb 2019 11:35
The Round Up: Return from Syria and Immigration, Immigration, Immigration…Immigration cases have dominated human rights case law this week. However, perhaps the greatest controversy concerned the Home Secretary’s intervention in the case of Shamima Begum. News broke on Sunday morning that the nineteen-year-old had given birth in Syria to baby boy, having travelled to the more...
31 Jan 2019 17:09
The inquest into the 1974 IRA Guildford Pub bombings is to be resumedMr Travers, H M Senior Coroner for Surrey, today decided that he would re-open an inquest into the deaths of four off-duty soldiers and a civilian who were killed when a bomb planted by the IRA went off in a pub in Guildford in October 1974. The inquest was opened in 1974 but then stopped when more...
21 Dec 2018 10:21
Westminster Terror Attack Inquests - Prevention of Future DeathsThe Report has been published on the website for the Office of the Chief Coroner HH Judge Lucraft QC has raised eighteen matters of concern, in relation to the Metropolitan Police Service, the Parliamentary Authorities, the Security Service, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the Department for more...
22 Oct 2018 10:02
Initial hearing in Manchester Arena Bombing inquestsSir John Saunders has been appointed by the Lord Chief Justice as the Coroner for the inquests into those who died in the Manchester Arena Bombing on 22 May 2017. An initial hearing took place on 18 October 2018. Jeremy Johnson QC acts on behalf of the Greater Manchester Police. more...
19 Oct 2018 14:50
Susannah Stevens and Tom Coke-Smyth represented the family of PC Palmer at the inquest into the Westminster terrorist attackSusannah and Tom represented the parents and siblings of PC Keith Palmer, the police officer killed in the Westminster terrorist attack on 22 March 2017. The inquest has been heavily covered in the press, and Susannah’s questions have featured prominently. Both The Telegraph and ITV quoted Susannah more...
15 Oct 2018 09:13
Westminster Terror Attack Inquests ConcludeThe Inquests arising from the deaths in the Westminster Terror Attack of 22 March 2017 concluded today in Court One at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey). The Chief Coroner, His Honour Judge Mark Lucraft QC, heard the inquests. The Chief Coroner commenced the inquests hearing on 10 September, more...
2 Oct 2018 16:33
Coroner not required to investigate identities of Birmingham bombersCoroner for the Birmingham Inquests v Hambleton & Ors[2018] EWCA Civ 2081 (26 September 2018) At an inquest, the Coroner must investigate four things: the identity of the deceased and how, when and where they came by their death. Ordinarily, the question ‘how the deceased came by their death’ more...
Why is the dangerous Anjem Choudary being released onto our streets?
This piece was first published on The Secret Barrister on 12/9/18. Anjem Choudary, the Islamist preacher convicted in 2016 of inviting support for Islamic State, is to be released from prison next month, despite being described by prisons minister Rory Stewart as “genuinely dangerous”. How, it has more...
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