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On Wednesday 4th September, Baroness Walmsley hosted Goldsmith Chambers for drinks and dinner at the House of Lords in place of her husband Lord Thomas to commemorate and celebrate the merger of Goldsmith Chambers with Argent Chambers having taken place 2000 days earlier. Baroness Walmsley spoke very warmly about Chambers and there were words of […]
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.
Francesca Sio, who was 3 years old, died after a diagnosis of cancer was missed. A coroner initially refused to hold an inquest to investigate the death. However, after an expert report was obtained from Dr Sandie Bohin and a Judicial Review was issued in the High Court, it was agreed that an inquest would […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr Anton van Dellen made submissions to the Old Bailey Judge, who was appointed after previous inquests had been quashed, about the scope of the inquests into the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor. His submissions, which were resisted by the Metropolitan Police, were that the non-judicial acts of the […]
On Friday 21st June 2019, Dr Anton van Dellen and Ian Cain presented their joint paper ‘The unfriendly Litigation Friend and maintaining confidentiality’ at the Third International Advocacy Conference at Nottingham Trent University. Representing both authors, Ian Cain attended the conference entitled ‘Advocacy and Vulnerable Witnesses: 20 years on from the Youth Justice and Criminal […]
Following the resumed hearing on 20th March 2019, before the President of the Upper Tribunal, Mr Justice Lane and Upper Tribunal Judge Rimington, the final Decision in Banger has now been reported: Banger (EEA: EFM – Right of Appeal) [2019] UKUT 00194(IAC). Ms Banger was represented pro bono by Anthony Metzer QC and Sanaz Saifolahi. […]
Anthony Metzer QC, Christobel McCoey and Sangeetha Iengar of Goldsmith Chambers attended the Annual Roger Hood Lecture, part of the All Souls Criminology Seminar Series held at the University of Oxford. This year’s lecture was entitled ‘(De)constructing the crimmigrant other: migration, citizenship and penal power’ and was delivered by Professor Katja Franko of the University of […]
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