19/05/2019
9 Gough Chambers is pleased to announce the appointment of 6 of its barristers to the list of Specialist Regulatory Advocates. All are able to prosecute on behalf of regulatory bodies, including the Health & Safety Executive and the Environment Agency.
Following a recent competitive selection process conducted jointly by all members of the board.
Claire Harden-Frost has been appointed to the A List. Eleanor Mawrey and James Thacker been appointed to the B List and Jennie Oborne, Tom Jones and Aqeel Noorali have been appointed to the C list.
The report of the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (“grooming gangs”) was published on 16th June. The Government confirmed the same day that action would be taken on each of the Audit’s 12 recommendations through introduction of legislation, police operations to…
This week Sarah Prager KC joins forces with Rebecca Huxford of Stewarts to bring news of a jurisdictional challenge in which (perhaps somewhat unusually) practical and logistical factors were placed front and centre. Practical and Logistical Factors in Challenges to Jurisdiction The High Court of…
On 21 May 2025, Mrs Justice Theis handed down a series of judgments, decided over several months from July 2024 to May 2025, in care proceedings concerning siblings who were the subject of physical and emotional abuse perpetrated by their parents. One parent was a…
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