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Dear Friends and Colleagues, Even during this very difficult time, the barristers who make up Goldsmith Chambers’ Civil Team remain available to provide high quality legal services, whether to professional clients, businesses or the general public, across our practice areas: Commercial Inquests and Corners Courts, Contract Clinical Negligence and Healthcare, Insolvency, Sports law, Landlord and […]
The case of A (A Child: Female Genital Mutilation: Asylum) [2019] EWHC 2475 (Fam) (25 September 2019) was before the Court of Appeal on 12th March 2020. The Court of Appeal was invited to reconsider how the family court should evaluate findings about the risk of FGM made in the immigration courts.
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 […]
The High Court ruled on 18th February 2020 that a child is at high risk of FGM if she is deported to Sudan or Bahrain. The mother of the girl was represented by Karon Monaghan QC, Matrix Chambers and Dr Charlotte Proudman, Goldsmith Chambers. The Judgment can be found here: A (A child) (Female Genital […]
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 […]
On 13th January 2020, Anthony Metzer QC and Adam Gersch acted in a private prosecution involving a man set to appear for trial before a Judge and jury at a North London Crown Court for an offence of ‘Controlling and Coercive Behaviour’ based on his refusal to give a religious divorce (“Get”) to his ex-wife. […]
Anthony Metzer QC, Head of Chambers, and Charlotte Proudman, of the family and immigration teams, co-authored the article “Abuse victims deserve a well-funded justice system – Structural problems that have led to falling numbers of rape prosecutions cannot be solved without sufficient resources”. An extract of this article has been published in The Times online […]
Dr Anton van Dellen has been instructed to represent Alison Lapper for the inquest investigating the death of her son, Parys. The sculpture by the artist Marc Quinn of Ms Lapper pregnant with Parys was displayed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square from 2005 and 2007. At the Pre-Inquest Review at West Sussex Coroner’s […]
Campus rape: breach of care. As reports of rape assaults on campus soar, solicitor Georgina Calvert-Lee and barrister, Charlotte Proudman raise awareness of the public duty of care in this developing area of law in counsel magazine (November 2019 issue).
Dr Anton van Dellen is instructed to represent the partner of Daniel Whitworth in an inquest investigating the linked deaths of four young men in East London. At the Old Bailey, Her Honour Judge Sarah Munro QC sitting as an Assistant Coroner ordered that that there was reason to suspect that omissions of Police officers caused or contributed […]
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