22 May 2014
Simon Taylor prosecutes London property developer for a series of safety failings that led to an employee sustaining catastrophic spinal injury.
Simon Taylor has prosecuted a London property developer (instructed by Mssrs Tuckers on behalf of the Health and Safety Executive) for a series of safety failings that led to an employee sustaining catastrophic spinal injury. In June 2011 Habitat Construction LLP, a developer of premium London...
read more21 May 2014
David Travers QC to present a lecture at the Royal Society for Public Health conference on food law entitled 'Allergies on a Plate'
David Travers QC will be lecturing on the new EU Regulation on the Provision of Food Information to Consumers (1169/2011 EC) at a forthcoming Royal Society for Public Health conference this month. The Conference, entitled, 'Allergies on a Plate' will be held on 22nd May and will...
read more19 May 2014
Andrew Espley prosecutes in a case involving a woman accused of plotting a colleague's rape
Andrew Espley successfully prosecutes in a case involving a woman who is accused of posing as a workmate in online sex chatrooms asking men to attack her. The defendant was found to have posed on websites as a woman who liked “role play” sex and wanted “to create some sort of rape...
read more16 May 2014
Eleanor Laws QC successfully responds in the Court of Appeal to a fresh evidence appeal
Eleanor Laws QC has successfully responded in the Court of Appeal to a fresh evidence appeal in a case. The applicant raped and murdered his mother in law and attempted to murder his wife in 1978. He pleaded guilty and offered no mitigation. Psychiatrists later claimed that he must have been...
read more14 May 2014
Nina Ellin responds on behalf of the Crown in case concerning sexual assault of a vulnerable complainant
Nina Ellin responds on behalf of the Crown, as the Court of Appeal uphold the sentence of 9 months for the sexual assault of the vulnerable complainant who featured in the case of R v F [2013] EWCA Crim 424. This appeal is linked to the complainant in the article which Eleanor Laws QC wrote in a...
read more12 May 2014
Richard Barraclough QC writes on the latest attempt to defeat POCA in illegal money lending cases
The latest attempt to defeat POCA in illegal money lending cases on grounds that a POCA order is a "sanction", has been roundly rejected by the Court. Richard Barraclough QC examines the case and outlines the implications of the judgment in R v Chapman. The article entitled "Last Ditch...
read more07 May 2014
Oliver Saxby QC's gross negligence manslaughter case commences
The trial of two doormen charged with the manslaughter by gross-negligence of a party-goer started last week. The Crown allege over-restraint causing death by positional asphyxiation. The trial is expected to last 4 weeks. For media coverage of the case see links below:- The Daily...
read more02 May 2014
Christopher Badger joins Six Pump Court Chambers
Chambers is pleased to announce that specialist regulatory barrister, Chris Badger has joined Six Pump Court. Chris has an established practice in commercial regulatory investigations and prosecutions, with an emphasis on environmental enforcement, acting for both the prosecution and on behalf of...
read more01 May 2014
Pascal Bates prosecutes Pirbright Institute for foot and mouth disease controls failures in first ever case under the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 2008
Pascal Bates yesterday prosecuted the Pirbright Institute, a government-funded research facility recognised by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation as the world reference centre for foot and mouth disease, for failures in relation to its disease containment controls during repeated...
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