Archive: October 2019

Dr Charlotte Proudman of Goldsmith Chambers and Karon Monaghan QC of Matrix Chambers represented the mother in an application for a Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order before the President of the Family Division

In the matter of Re A (A Child: Female Genital Mutilation: Asylum [2019] EWHC 2475, Dr Charlotte Proudman of Goldsmith Chambers and Karon Monaghan QC of Matrix Chambers represented the mother in an application before an Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order before the President of the Family Division. The case concerned a girl age 10 of Sudanese origin with Bahraini citizenship. The […]

Proceeds of Crime Conference

Meyrick Williams will be part of the Scottish Bar’s conference on Proceeds of Crime in Edinburgh on 7.10.19. He will be discussing Unexplained Wealth Orders [“UWOs”] and also the principle of “proportionality” in confiscation cases as it develops following R v Waya [2012] UKSC.

Meyrick Williams Secures Acquittal in Blackmail Case

Meyrick Williams acted for the lead Defendant charged with a Conspiracy to Blackmail an international footballer over his relationship with a female Defendant having captured him on compromising video. At Trial today, the jury unanimously acquitted him and all his other co-defendants. This was despite the female Defendant, who had been in a relationship with […]

Dr Anton van Dellen and Sarah Pinder speakers at Law Friends Society’s Manchester Immigration Conference – 10th October 2019

Dr Anton van Dellen and Sarah Pinder from Chambers’ immigration team will be joining the Law Friends Society’s Immigration Conference in Manchester on 10th October 2019. Anton will deliver a lecture on what has become known as the “Hamid” cases and the reach of disciplinary tribunals in the immigration courts. Sarah will provide a comprehensive […]

 

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