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Legal 500 – 2020

Chambers is delighted to announce that a number of members of chambers have been successfully ranked in the Legal 500 2020 and that Chambers is ranked again in Immigration: Immigration Goldsmith Chambers immigration team –  Band 3 – “Goldsmith Chambers provides ‘very organised, competent, and responsive barristers and clerks’ and ‘is very experienced and knowledgeable […]

Samina Iqbal co-authors journal article

Samina Iqbal, of Chambers’ immigration team, has recently co-authored a very comprehensive article for those practising in the areas of immigration and family law. The paper seeks to highlight the problems of specialisation and provides practitioners with the tools needed in both jurisdictions, to address the issues of confidentiality and disclosure in respect of orders made in […]

Training with the Society of British-Bangladeshi Solicitors

Samina Iqbal and Sarah Pinder, of Goldsmith Chambers’ immigration team, were pleased to join the Society of British-Bangladeshi Solicitors on Saturday 14th September 2019 for a full day’s CPD training. Sarah started the morning session with a 3-hour update on Article 8 ECHR covering the recent Supreme Court cases of KO (Nigeria) and Ruppiah and […]

Raj Joshi joins Chambers

Chambers are delighted to announce that Raj Joshi has joined Goldsmith Chambers from 18 Red Lion Court. Raj practices predominantly in crime, and is an excellent addition to our thriving Criminal team.

Banks on Sentence

Harry O’Sullivan of Chambers has been appointed to take over the authorship of the textbook Banks on Sentence. This will involve him writing updates to the text for the next edition and also being the author and general editor for its contents and monthly updater alerts.

Permission granted to appeal to the Supreme Court in defamation case

The Supreme Court has granted permission to appeal Serafin v Malkiewicz.  The issues in the appeal include interpretation and application of the public interest defence under s.4 of the Defamation Act 2013 and  the correct test of whether a trial has been rendered unfair by the conduct of the judge.  Anthony Metzer QC and Dr […]

Dr Charlotte Proudman successfully represents the mother in FGM case

Re X (Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order. No.2) [2019] EWHC 1990 (Fam) Nkumbe Ekaney QC and Dr Charlotte Proudman represented the mother in a case concerning a FGM Protection Order (“FGMPO”). The local authority applied for a travel ban to prohibit the mother’s child from leaving the jurisdiction to visit her father in Egypt due to […]

Head of Chambers, Anthony Metzer QC appointed visiting fellow

De Montford University in Leicester has appointed Anthony Metzer QC, as a visiting fellow of the Centre of Research and Innovation for Sport, Technology and the Law (CRISTAL).  Last November, Anthony  delivered a talk on “International Sport and the law from an athlete’s perspective”at the University’s Sports Law conference  which was co-hosted by the Law School and the […]

 

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