Tom Little, led by Clare Montgomery QC, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State for Justice have succeeded in the Divisional Court in resisting a public law challenge to section 76(5A) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008.
In a judgment handed down today Sir Brian Leveson, the President of the Queen’s Bench Division, has ruled that the statutory provisions do not materially extend the ambit of the law of self-defence and do not breach the Article 2 ECHR rights of burglars.
Laura Johnson KC and James Byrne have secured a multi-million pound settlement for a young woman who suffered horrifying avulsion injuries including the total loss of her scalp and right ear when her ponytail became trapped in factory drill. This was a highly unusual and…
We hope our readers enjoyed the long Easter weekend and grasped the opportunity, as we did, to spend a restful few days away from the coalface. We kept one eye on the courts though, and it’s just as well we did, because last week brought…
On 10 April 2025, the Court of Appeal handed down Judgment in Re M (A Child) [2025] EWCA Civ 440, providing long awaited guidance for deciding whether and when to grant intermediary assistance to vulnerable parties in family proceedings. An intermediary is someone whose function…
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