*/
Criminal law – Manslaughter. The claimant's son died whilst being restrained by a doorman of a public house. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to prosecute the doorman for either gross negligence manslaughter or unlawful act manslaughter. The claimant sought judicial review. The Administrative Court allowed the application to the extent that it quashed the CPS's decision not to prosecute the doorman for unlawful act manslaughter. The way in which the case was advanced in the present proceedings, namely that the restraint was inherently very dangerous and could not constitute reasonable force, even if D had not appreciated how dangerous it was, had not been fully analysed.
Criminal law – Manslaughter. The claimant's son died whilst being restrained by a doorman of a public house. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to prosecute the doorman for either gross negligence manslaughter or unlawful act manslaughter. The claimant sought judicial review. The Administrative Court allowed the application to the extent that it quashed the CPS's decision not to prosecute the doorman for unlawful act manslaughter. The way in which the case was advanced in the present proceedings, namely that the restraint was inherently very dangerous and could not constitute reasonable force, even if D had not appreciated how dangerous it was, had not been fully analysed.
The Chair of the Bar reports back
By Kem Kemal, CEO, Henry Dannell
By BSK Financial Planning
Mário Barroso, Head of R&D and Method Development at AlphaBiolabs
Susie Griffin on the admin that keeps barristers from billable work
Clement Cowley, Partner at The Penny Group, explains how global events can influence the performance of pensions and ISAs, and why taking a long-term approach to investing is often the most effective strategy
Kick off your career at the Bar Council’s Pupillage Fair this October – it’s one of the most valuable opportunities for aspiring barristers, says Amelia Clegg
Join us on Saturday 21 November 2026 at Leeds Beckett University and see for yourself why the North continues to be an exceptional place to build a career at the Bar
The golden age of advocacy? David Langwallner pays homage to the filmic if contentious barrister Sir Edward Carson and some of his contemporaries
Henry Fingerhut outlines what the Bar Standards Board AI guidance means for early career barristers
Not yet, says Jacob Turner. Regulation, unlike the technology itself, is a domain the legal profession can still control
