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Tom Little QC, following a recommendation by the Presiding Judges of the North Eastern Circuit, has been authorised by the Senior Presiding Judge to sit as a Recorder in the County Court. After he has undertaken his Judicial College training later in…
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In Various Claimants Including (1) John Leslie (2) Chantelle Houghton v MGN Limited [2018] EWHC 1244 (Ch) Chief Master Marsh gave a detailed judgment concerning costs budgeting in 2 claims arising from phone hacking of the former Blue Peter presenter…
Thom Dyke, led by William Emlyn-Jones (Treasury Counsel, Three Raymond Buildings), has successfully prosecuted a drug dealer caught in possession of five illegal firearms and more than 60 rounds of ammunition.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Trident and Area Crime Command…
On 23 May 2018, Mariwan Fatah and Ali Jamal were unanimously convicted by a jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court of their leading role in an organised crime group. The group were involved in a complex operation to receive raw tobacco leaf from…
The High Court has firmly rejected the contention, advanced in the ongoing Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation, that fear without more is capable of being an injury so as to bring a claim within the ambit of the discretionary disapplication of the time…
Tom Little QC appears for the Prosecution in an interlocutory appeal in the Supreme Court in R v Mackinlay & Others. This is a criminal appeal relating to the meaning of ‘election expenses’ in an ongoing prosecution which remains the subject of…
Mr Justice Martin Spencer handed down a judgment on 21st May 2018 that a neurosurgeon was negligent in administering prophylactic anticoagulants within 3 hours of surgery to decompress the cauda equina nerves in the spine, rather than waiting until the risk of…
Andrew Ritchie QC spearheads initiative for a new type of comprehensive insurance policy clause. This will provide rehabilitation for people left with life-changing injuries when falling victim to a no blame accident.
As one of the country’s highest profile clinical negligence barristers,…
Last year Tom Little QC successfully prosecuted Muhammad Rabbani, the Managing Director of Terrorism Act 2000 following his refusal at Heathrow Airport to provide the PINs or passwords to his mobile telephone and laptop so that they could be reviewed. He appealed…
The Court of Appeal has today handed down judgment in the long-awaited conjoined appeals of P & P Property Ltd v Owen White & Catlin LLP and Dreamvar (UK) Ltd v Mishcon de Reya. It is not good news for conveyancing solicitors…