The ‘Tenth Annual British Irish Commercial Law Forum’ is to be held at the end of the month in Manchester. The British Irish Commercial Bar Association (BICBA) is the leading cross-border network of solicitors, barristers and in-house lawyers from England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland. Launched in Dublin in 2013, BICBA provides commercial… Read more »
18 St John Street Family Law barristers Soria Kajue and Olivia Edwards attended the recent Urban Lawyers North ‘Diversity and Inclusion at the Bar’ event bringing together a wide range of people to discuss life at the bar. The audience consisted of many students from different cultural backgrounds who struggle to obtain relevant experience and… Read more »
Today is International Women’s Day, based on the theme #BreakTheBias. Here we highlight one of our recent posts on the topic of Women in Law and celebrate the contribution made by women to 18 St John Street Chambers. 18 St John Street are immensely proud of our equality and diversity. We became a female majority… Read more »
18 St John Street Chambers criminal specialist Paul Treble successfully prosecutes child sex offender who contacted 12 year old Australian girl via an online game, iMessage and FaceTime. Full details of the case can be found on the CPS North West website and news articles on the Lancashire Telegraph and Lancashire Post websites.
18 St John Street Chambers Personal Injury specialists Kane Simons & Nick Harrison are presenting a live webinar on Cycling Claims for MBL on Wednesday 23rd February at 09.15am. The pandemic and resulting lockdowns have led to an increase in the number of cyclists on British streets. This along with recent changes to the Highway… Read more »
18 St John Street Chambers invites applications from ambitious juniors of up to 10 years’ call who wish to join its busy and expanding Business and Property department. The Department undertakes the entire range of traditional and commercial Chancery work, as well as planning and Revenue law. Several members of the Department sit as fee-paid… Read more »
CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE UPDATE FEBRUARY 2022 Ian Huffer considers the recent Court of Appeal decision in Paul in relation secondary victims claiming damages for psychiatric injury resulting from clinical negligence. Whilst there will be disappointment amongst Claimant clinical negligence practitioners at the outcome of the conjoined Court of Appeal decisions in Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS… Read more »
18 St John Street’s Rachel Faux will appear in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s ‘File on 4’ programme on the topic of Drink- and Drug-Spiking, to be aired on 8th February. According to statistics presented to a select committee of MPs in January by the Alcohol Education Trust reports of drink- and drug-spiking have… Read more »
Today marks World Cancer day and highlights the ongoing war to defeat this terrible disease. The world has seen first-hand the impact of cancer, the devastation, the loss, the pain and suffering it causes and the world continues to fight the good fight through research and development and through thousands of initiatives. The hard work,… Read more »
18 St John Street’s Jocelyn Hughes has been successful in a case before the Court of Appeal which concerned the local authority’s “homelessness duty”, under s.193 Housing Act 1996. Housing provided under the homelessness duty must be suitable for the applicant concerned. For a property to be suitable, the applicant must be able to afford… Read more »
Gemma McGungle succeeds in fundamental dishonesty appeal heard in the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division. The case was reported in the Law Society Gazette: Convicted attacker may claim negligence – despite dishonesty | News | Law Gazette “In Cojanu v Essex Partnership University NHS Trust Mr Justice Ritchie ruled that claimant Dorinel Cojanu’s dishonesty about his crime was… Read more »