We are hosting a half day conference in London: The Intersection between Public Liability and Human Rights. The conference is taking place at etc.venues Chancery Lane, 50-52 Chancery Lane London, London WC2A 1HL. Registration starts at 13:15 and the conference starts at 13:30 – 17:30. We will…
This week Kerry Nicholson examines the position when a claimant fails to expedite proceedings – a reminder, perhaps, for some of our more senior readers of the halcyon days when those acting for defendants would joyously strike out proceedings left, right and centre for want…
Russell Wilcox, Robert Parkin and Thomas Yarrow have been appointed to the Attorney General’s B Panel for the period 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2031. We congratulate them and wish them every success in their appointments. They will join Saleem Khalid, Jennie Oborne and…
We are delighted that several members of our Travel Law team are recommended by the Lexology Index. Matthew Chapman KC, Sarah Prager KC, Jack Harding, Dominique Smith and Thomas Yarrow are recommended in the UK Bar Aviation & Travel section of the index. Lexology Index…
This week brought the news we’ve all been waiting for – yes, the proposed amendments to the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018 have finally been published! The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements (Amendment) Regulations 2026 As well as being every bit…
The ALARM South Conference is taking place the 2nd and 3rd of March in Slough. We will also have an exhibition stand at the event, staffed by Clark Chessis and David Barrow. Do come and say hello if you’re attending. We will be at stand…
With the advent of Autumn, accompanied – for those who like that sort of thing – by Claudia Winkleman and friends hamming it up in Celebrity Traitors, the team are in the mood for the Eerie. And Thomas Yarrow has just the thing: a sinister…
In this week’s Dekagram Thomas Yarrow considers an issue which has been the subject of some considerable controversy ever since the changes to the jurisdictional rules wrought by Brexit; and provides us with a characteristically erudite summary of the arguments, which (to the editor’s eye)…
This week Thomas Yarrow revisits the vexed question of the use of artificial intelligence in legal research – and our intrepid reporter finds that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact the experience led him to such depths of despair that he…
Following on from chambers’ highly successful and well attended conference on accidents and deaths abroad on 13th February, Thomas Yarrow has been thinking about the extraterritorial application of the European Convention on Human Rights, a question which should be of concern to all cross border…
In our annual case law update, Conor Kennedy, Ella Davis and Thomas Yarrow take you on a tour of the key cases of 2024, considering the most interesting and significant cases of the year in the areas of personal injury, clinical negligence and travel law….
For this year’s International Men’s Day, three barristers – Simon Trigger, Ben Rodgers, and Thomas Yarrow – share with Conor Kennedy their experiences of balancing work at the self-employed bar with life as a parent. CK: What are the main advantages (and disadvantages) of the…
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