In our latest blog post, current 18 St John Street Family Team pupil Zara Nawaz analyses a recent High Court decision to grant an appeal against a judgment in private law proceedings. M (A Child) [2021] EWHC 3225 (Fam) Mrs Justice Judd DBE 1st December 2021 Mrs Justice Judd, sitting in the Family Division of… Read more »
Proprietary estoppel fails as defence to claim for possession of farm: Further to our news blog on the 3rd December 2021, we are pleased to report that LexisNexis have published a case analysis of (Earl of Plymouth v Rees), written by Dr Christopher McNall. You can find a copy of the analysis – which was… Read more »
18 St John Street’s Ian Huffer continues his series of Clinical Negligence Case Updates with an analysis of Freeman v Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 3378 (QB) CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE CASE UPDATE JANUARY 2022 Freeman v Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 3378 (QB), a decision of His Honour Judge Tindal sitting as… Read more »
18 St John Street Chambers Richard Chapman QC and Oliver Caplan were delighted to speak alongside Satish Jakhu and Chris Guy from RLK Solicitors to the members of the Salon Owners United in relation to the “The Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Bill”. The webinar discussed the issues surrounding the new Bill, Commercial Rent, Evictions, BII, bounce… Read more »
Steve Killalea QC and Nick Harrison have secured a settlement of £3.5million for a claimant in his early twenties, who suffered a below-knee amputation following a road traffic incident in early 2019. The Claimant also suffered multiple-ligament damage to his other leg, which resulted in ligament reconstruction surgery. The settlement sum will enable the Claimant… Read more »
We have reached the final two articles of our 12 Blogs of Christmas Countdown! We wanted to take a look back at the blogs we have shared celebrating Women in Law which is something we strongly support here at 18 St John Street Chambers. At number 2, is the blog that shares personal experiences from… Read more »
Chambers is delighted to announce that Laura Briggs is to be appointed as Queen’s Counsel. Laura is a Family Law specialist based at 1GC Family Law, London, as well as being a door tenant here at 18 St John Street Chambers, Manchester. Laura was called in 2001 and was a pupil at 18, where she then practised for 10… Read more »
There are only 4 days until Christmas and we are going to continue with articles relating to the Charity work we as a Chambers have completed in a year when Charities have needed help the most due to the Pandemic. For blog number 4 we are going to cast our minds back to January, when… Read more »
At number 5 of our 12 Blogs of Christmas Countdown is an article about a charity we have continued to support for many years – Wood Street Mission. We are delighted to have been able to raise once again a significant amount of money that will help so many families in need in the Salford… Read more »
There are only a few more days to go until we reach the number 1 blog of the year, at number 7 we have the blog announcing Kane Simons as a newly appointed Deputy District Judge. Appointments to the role are made by the Lord Chancellor on the advice of the Judicial Appointments Commission, and… Read more »
As we are edging closer to Christmas our chosen blog for number 8 is an article giving a hands on insight into the life of a Pupil Barrister. Three of our then Pupils, now Tenants, Laura Broome, Olivia West, and Daniel Boal gave candid details on their experience as Pupil Barristers in their 1st and… Read more »