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Breaking the silence

A woman who defied death threats to give evidence in a landmark ‘honour killing’ case turned trainer when agencies failed to learn lessons from the case. By James Keeley A... read more

Letting facts get in the way

Lucy Reed introduces The Transparency Project, an initiative to correct sensationalist and lazy journalism and encourage healthier debate about the law Lawyers and... read more

Alfie Harper & Dominic Woodbridge

Clerks: team leader’s assistants at Fountain Court read more

James Smithdale

Associate in Quinn Emanuel’s London office Quinn Emanuel Urquhart is a 650+ attorney top tier business litigation firm with 20 offices around the globe, each devoted solely... read more

Mr Justice Hellman

Supreme Court judge in Bermuda and a founding member of 33 Chancery Lane, Chambers of Andrew Mitchell QC read more

Koye Akoni

Barrister at Quadrant Chambers Quadrant Chambers is a leading set of barristers specialising in commercial law. read more

Nick Hill

Senior Clerk at Three New Square and Chairman of the Institute of Barristers’ Clerks Three New Square specialises in intellectual property law, in particular patent... read more

Robert Griffiths QC

Head of Mondial Chambers The chambers will specialise in domestic, commercial and international law with a core base in London, consisting of leading QCs and other senior... read more

Obituary: John RWD Jones QC

John Jones devoted his life to helping those in peril in the courts. read more

Stephen Ward

Managing director at Clerksroom Clerksroom is a nationwide chambers of barristers and mediators providing advocacy, advice and mediation throughout England & Wales. read more

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R v Gimbert

Criminal law – Theft. The appellant's appeal against his conviction for theft, for stealing his cousin's property, was allowed. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, quashed the appellant's sentence on the basis that he had acted pursuant to a null and void power of attorney, and accordingly,...

University of Technology, Mauritius v Gopeechand (Mauritius)

Contract – Carriage. The Magistrate had not erred in her judgment that the employer was liable to the employee in damages for breach of contract as a result of injuries sustained by the employee in a road traffic accident, when he was being driven home after work by another employee of the...

Law Society (acting through the Solicitors Regulation Authority) v Blavo

Solicitor – Practice. There are no grounds for setting the statutory demands served on the respondent solicitor on the basis that the subject of the statutory demands were not debts for liquidated sums within the meaning of s 267(2)(b) of the Insolvency Act 1986. The Court of Appeal, Civil...

Crumpler and another (Joint liquidators of Peak Hotels and Resorts Ltd in liquidation) v Candey Ltd

Company – Liquidation. The appellant liquidators' appeal failed, in a case concerning money paid into court as security for the respondent solicitors' fees, by a company that had entered liquidation. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that the company had retained the property in the...

R v Clough

Sentence – Imprisonment. The defendant appealed against a sentence of two years and eight months' imprisonment for conspiracy to supply heroin, which had been imposed along with a concurrent term of six months' imprisonment for possession of amphetamine. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division,...

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