18 St John Street Chambers are delighted to announce that Arron Thomas has joined the Family Department. Arron has developed a strong reputation for representing the best interests of children within care proceedings and has been involved in some of the most significant cases arising from the Greater Manchester area over the past decade. Arron… Read more »
Victoria Roberts led by Charles Hale QC appeared in an appeal against the decision of Mr Justice Williams to pronounce a decree nisi of nullity to an Islamic marriage where the ceremony had not taken place in a registered building. Mr Justice Williams had said the court was justified in taking a ‘holistic view of a process… Read more »
18 St John Street Chambers are delighted to announce that Victoria Roberts has joined the Business and Property department. Victoria has wide-ranging expertise in Chancery and Commercial matters, Insolvency, Inquests and Matrimonial Finance. She was appointed to Attorney General’s Civil Regional Panel in 2018. For more information on Victoria, please click through to her profile. Victoria is a… Read more »
Chambers are delighted to announce that Lucy Coulson has been appointed to the Attorney General’s Regional Civil Panel C to undertake cases as instructed by the government. Our full list of appointed members is as follows; Panel A Richard Chapman QC, Jennifer Newstead Taylor, Christopher McNall Panel B Rupert Davies, Oliver Caplan Panel C Lewis Bretts, Lucy… Read more »
18 St John Street Chambers are delighted to announce that Michael Brady has been appointed Queen’s Counsel. It has been announced today that, on the recommendation of The Lord Chancellor, Her Majesty The Queen has appointed Michael Brady to be Queen’s Counsel. Sir Alex Allan, Chair of the Selection Panel, said in today’s press release: ’I am… Read more »
18 St John Street Chambers are delighted to announce that Paul Treble has joined the Criminal Department. Paul joined Chambers in January 2020. A science graduate, Paul came to the bar via the private sector working with a number of FTSE 100 companies such as British Airways, Glaxo and NatWest. He was called to the… Read more »
Christopher McNall secures permission to appeal from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court. A three judge panel of the Supreme Court, led by Baroness Hale, has granted an application for permission to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal in Matthews v Sedman [2019] EWCA Civ 475. As the grant of permission… Read more »
Due to our extremely busy and increasing workload, 18 St John Street Chambers are actively recruiting established practitioners across all departments. For more information please click here
In an interview with Lexis Nexis, Christopher McNall discusses his recent important Agricultural Property case against HMRC and the practical implications arising. This article was first published on Lexis®PSL Private Client on 19 November 2019. Private Client analysis: Allowing an appeal on the availability of Agricultural Property Relief (APR) and Business Property Relief (BPR)… Read more »
Our December 2019 edition of the ‘Inside 18’ Newsletter, has now been published. PERSONAL INJURY UPDATE – Evidential Issues Relating to Witnesses (Part 2) In the first part of his article on witness evidence in June, IAN HUFFER considered the evidential issues relating to the failure to call witness evidence. In the second part he… Read more »
Chambers are delighted to announce the appointment of District Judge David Mackley. Everyone at 18 St John Street would like to offer the warmest of congratulations and our best wishes to Judge Mackley, who takes up his post based at the Carlisle Combined Court Centre on 2nd December 2019. JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT: Chambers are delighted to… Read more »