Cited cases

• All England Lawn Tennis Club (Championships) Ltd and another v McKay [2019] EWHC 3065 (QB)
• Brown v London Borough of Haringey [2015] EWCA Civ 483
• Re O (committal: legal representation) [2019] EWCA Civ 1721
• King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Council v Bunning [2015] 1 WLR 531
• Chelmsford County Court v Ramet [2014] EWHC 56 (Fam), [2014] 2 FLR 1084
• H v T (Committal Appeal: Notices on Orders) [2018] EWHC 1310 (Fam)

Background

Aung Ko Min was convicted unanimously by a jury of attempted murder after he attacked his estranged’s wife’s new partner with a knife. Mr Min had pleaded guilty to s18 but denied an attempt to kill, and said that only the first stab wound was deliberately inflicted. The victim suffered four stab wounds which caused a pneumothorax and haemothorax.

We are proud to announce that Kate Brunner QC has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Barrister of the Year category at the 2019 Inspirational Women of the Year Awards.

The First 100 Years is on the search for women in law who are the trailblazers of their generation, driving much-needed change in the legal sector to make gender equality a reality, and the awards ceremony, hosted by Legal Week’s Women, Influence and Power the Law UK Conference, will take place in London on 19 November.

We are delighted to announce that Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon has appointed Adam Vaitilingam QC to be a Deputy High Court Judge.

We congratulate Adam on his appointment.

After a seven-week trial in Bristol Crown Court, a jury today cleared Alistair Gibson of conspiracy to commit fraud. Mr Gibson is the former Finance Director of St Margaret’s Hospice in Taunton and had been accused, along with the Hospice’s former CEO, of securing grant payments to the value of £1.2million by submitting falsified invoices.

Edd Hetherington acted as Leading Junior in the defence of Mr Gibson, securing a unanimous not guilty verdict.

Today’s headline that the human rights of children and young people with mental health problems and autism are being abused is a cause for real concern.  Sophie Bennett was a one such young person, who tragically died aged 19 in May 2016 whilst at Lancaster Lodge in Richmond.  An inquest into her death heard evidence that the home had been run in the style of a ‘dictatorship’, with untrained staff, removal of therapy sessions and a ‘bootcamp’ mentality, and concluded that inadequacies in its management and policies had contributed to her death.

We are delighted to have been awarded the Chambers of the Year Award at the Bristol Law Society Awards and Dinner 2019.

We are delighted to have again been ranked as a top-ranked set in Chambers and Partners 2020 directory. We congratulate all our members whose excellence has been recognised.

A highly regarded chambers considered by interviewees to be "a fantastic rival to top London sets."

John-Lee Osborne used fake social media profiles in a deception which led to his conviction for a campaign of rape. Having set up false Instagram, WhatsApp accounts and telephone numbers using an online application, John-Lee Osborne deployed them to contact and threaten his victim in what the judge described as a means of controlling her body and her mind. HHJ Horton said that this case represented a disturbing development in the use of social media, with the internet in his hands becoming a weapon which he used to enable him to create a sex toy that he could control.