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WiGS – Women Internationally Gaining Skills

Samina Iqbal of Goldsmith Chambers helped set up and co-found WiGS – Women Internationally Gaining Skills at the start of 2020. The aim of the project is to deliver training in advocacy and legal skills to female law students, advocates and barristers internationally. In particular, WiGS aim to focus on countries, where there is greater […]

Sangeetha Iengar commissioned to write article for The Times

Sangeetha Iengar, a member of Chambers’ immigration team has been commissioned by the Times to write about the legal implications of Europe’s border violence. Her article ‘The EU have chosen strong borders over legal duties – The migrant crisis in Greece is the inevitable result of years of seeing the right to asylum as a […]

LEXIS NEXIS LEGAL AWARDS 2020

Goldsmith Chambers was delighted to be commended for its “Outstanding Achievement” for the ‘Case of the Year’ award -the only category where there was specific mention for anyone but the winners -for the landmark case of SSHD v Banger , in which Anthony Metzer QC and Sanaz Saifolahi were instructed, at last night’s Lexis Nexis […]

Anthony Metzer QC & Sarah Pinder represent eight Commonwealth veterans in group action

Anthony Metzer QC, Head of Chambers leads Sarah Pinder,  joint-head of the immigration team, in a group judicial review claim brought by eight Fijian Commonwealth veterans, who served in the British army, including on numerous operations. They are instructed by Vinita Templeton, Director at Duncan Lewis. The group action has been launched with the letter before claim having being served upon the MOD […]

Sangeetha Iengar writes blog post “Europe’s Borderlands: The New Shooting Range for Power Politics”

Chambers is proud of its association with the Border Criminologies department at the University of Oxford’s Law Faculty.  Sangeetha Iengar, a member of Chambers’ immigration team, was asked to write an article for Border Criminologies Blog, drawing attention to the recent tensions involving asylum seekers on the Turkish-Greek border. You can access the post here.  For ease, the article has been […]

Anthony Metzer QC features in podcast

Anthony Metzer QC features in a podcast with Rosalind English of 1 Crown Office Row, where he discusses the implications of the landmark case whereby he used the secular criminal law to persuade a husband to grant his client a “get”. Listen to the podcast here.

Do Dental Technicians disadvantage themselves in Regulatory Matters?

Heather Beckett, one of Goldsmith Chambers’ Clinical Negligence and Healthcare team, has had a short research article published in February 2020 edition of The Dental Technician Magazine. The research identifies emerging themes from the outcomes of General Dental Council Fitness to Practise decisions in relation to Registered Dental Technicians and underpins suggestions that registrants facing […]

Chambers’ members in Counsel magazine

We are pleased to see that some of our members appear in this month’s Counsel Magazine. There is an article about the Bar Pro Bono 2019 Award Winners. Anthony Metzer QC was interviewed as Pro Bono QC of the year, where he shared his experiences of undertaking pro bono work. He said: “ I have […]

 

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