18 St John Street is delighted to announce that Siobhan Grey KC has accepted an invitation to join Chambers as a door tenant. Siobhan specialises in murder cases and serious crime including; manslaughter, sexual offences, organised crime and fraud. She has extensive experience in examining and cross-examining expert witnesses such as Pathologists and Psychiatrists in murder… Read more »
Costs Expert James Miller provides his insight in a LexisNexis blog on the Candey -v- Crumpler Supreme Court judgment. The Court determined that a solicitor had waived their entitlement to an equitable lien when they had taken out an additional security, which was inconsistent with that lien. James’ commentary can be found on the LexisNexis subscription… Read more »
Gemma McGungle succeeds in a case before the High Court concerning a Solicitors Act Assessment. Mr Justice Bourne, sitting with Costs Judge Brown as Assessor, concluded that “payment” had not occurred given the lack of clarity given to the client. As a result, the time period determined within the Solicitors Act 1974, for a client… Read more »
Kane Simons delivered a seminar to CFG Law last week on the topic of the often misunderstood law relating to e-bikes and e-scooters. Kane published his book, ‘A Practical Guide to the Law and Regulation of E-Bikes and E-Scooters’ last month, which aims to set out the law and regulations that govern their use in… Read more »
18 St John Street Chambers are delighted to announce the recent promotion of several members of our Criminal Department within the CPS Advocate Panel. The CPS panel rankings provide a list of quality assured advocates to undertake criminal prosecutions for the CPS in the Crown Court and higher courts. Level 4 is the highest category… Read more »
18 St John Street’s Jennifer Newstead Taylor, led by Sarabjit Singh KC, has been successful in a case before the Court of Appeal concerning the medical exemption under Group 7, Schedule 9 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (“VATA.”) The Appellant, who supplied consultants to an intermediary agency who on supplied them to various… Read more »
On 1st December 2022 Richard Vardon successfully appealed a sentence for drug supply before the Lord Chief Justice. The appeal, inter alia, considered whether buying drugs for personal consumption but with the intention to supply to two friends who would on occasion supply back to the Appellant was a Category 3 offence – selling directly… Read more »
18 St John Street Barristers Joshua Bowker and Niamh McGinty helped organise the annual ‘Sir Rhys Davies School Mock Trial Competition’ which took place with local school pupils last week. Organisers of the latest edition of the Sir Rhys Davies Mock Trial Competition were delighted with the quality of this year’s competitors who appeared at… Read more »
Dr Mike Wilkinson, instructed by Dwyers Solicitors (Ashton-Under-Lyne) represented Stephen Gooderson, a well-regarded businessman and prominent member of his local community in High Court defamation proceedings. Mr Gooderson was defamed in a malevolent campaign of critical business reviews posted across several well-known online platforms including Google Reviews, yell.com, and 192.com. The defamatory posts variously accused Mr Gooderson of being dishonest and/or untrustworthy and/or… Read more »
James Miller, instructed by Ben Millns of Keoghs, acted on behalf of the Defendant/Respondent in an interesting costs appeal. The court was concerned with the mechanism for assessing costs following a CPR 36.20(11) settlement in a fixed costs case. There was no deemed costs order under CPR 44.9 so the parties needed a determination from the court…. Read more »
To celebrate its 25th Anniversary Advocate, the charity that finds free legal assistance from barristers, invited volunteers to complete 25 hours of pro bono work across a one year period in 2021 and 2022. 18 St John Street are proud to have supported the initiative. The challenge was a huge success, attracting 125 different chambers and… Read more »