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14th Apr 2020
Oliver Newman, Daniel Searle and Ian Cain of Goldsmith Chambers have drafted a briefing note for Civil Litigation Solicitors to assist them in providing their clients with initial advice on how to settle disputes over which party in a commercial contract bears the risks of non-performance as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic. This can […]
8th Apr 2020
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 […]
6th Apr 2020
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 received substantial interest from the public and the media. A link […]
30th Mar 2020
Goldsmith Chambers Immigration Team continues to be deeply concerned about the welfare of all court users in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunals. The team have joined other specialist immigration teams from other chambers in writing to the President of the First-Tier Tribunal (IAC). You can access the letter in full here.
20th Mar 2020
In light of the Government’s announcement that non-essential contact and travel should be avoided, we are taking steps to reduce risks to our Staff, Barristers and Clients, whilst ensuring that Chambers can continue to operate as normal. With effect from 20th March, all staff will be working from home. During this time we will have full […]
20th Mar 2020
Goldsmith Chambers Immigration Team are deeply concerned about the welfare of all court users in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunals. We support the urgent letter which was sent to the Chair of the Bar Council seeking clarification on COVID-19 measures. You can access the letter in full here.
13th Mar 2020
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 […]
13th Mar 2020
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 […]
12th Mar 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 […]
12th Mar 2020
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.