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Chambers is delighted to announce that Monica Ford and Edward Lloyd-Jones, both formerly of Fourteen, have joined our family team.

Monica is a specialist family practitioner with extensive experience in public law children cases and regularly instructed in public law care proceedings involving non-accidental injury, infant death, fabricated illness, physical, sexual and emotional abuse, Special Guardianship and adoption. Edward was called to the bar in 2012 having previously had a successful career as a solicitor. He

8th Aug 2016

Jude Shepherd delivers a webinar in partnership with Masterclass Training

Jude Shepherd delivers a webinar in partnership with Masterclass Training, looking at the causes of the gender pay gap and the steps being taken to close the gap by introducing mandatory gender pay gap reporting. The new Regulations have a target introduction date of 1 October 2016. Listen to the recording of the webinar to

25th Jul 2016

Housing Bulletin No 14 – Disrepair decision reversed by the Supreme Court Edwards V Kumarasamy [2016] UKSC 40

Welcome to this, the fourteenth bulletin from the Housing Team. We hope that you will find the content of interest: if you wish to receive further updates you can subscribe by replying to [email protected] On 13th July 2016 the Supreme Court handed down judgment in this case where a tenant (Mr Edwards) in a block of

21st Jul 2016

Chambers is delighted to welcome Emma Romer from East Sussex County Council

Emma has very wide experience in all areas of children law and practice including care proceedings (including cases with an international element involving Brussels IIR and the Hague Convention), emergency remedies and adoption law and process (she was legal adviser to the agency decision-maker) including adoptions with a foreign element.

19th Jul 2016

Seminar for Lawyers in Local Government Housing and Regeneration group: Housing and Planning Act 2016

On 29th June 2016, Desmond Kilcoyne and Matthew McDermott were invited by the London Housing and Regeneration group of Lawyers in Local Government (LLG) to conduct a half-day seminar (headed by Alexander McDowall, a lawyer in Legal Services at the London Borough of Camden) on the radical new housing law being introduced by the Housing

5th Jul 2016

Bank's High Court Claim for £9.5 million settles out of court

Arfan Khan successfully defended complex claims in the High Court Chancery Division. The claims were pursued by a bank against the Defendants for £9.5 million plus interest, including possession of land. A legal charge was procured by the bank to secure the alleged indebtedness.

1st Jul 2016

Extreme times, a radical approach – Event

On June 15th 42 Bedford Row together with www.itsalawyerslife.com hosted an exclusive film screening of ‘Jihad’ and panel discussion on the complex and topical subject of radicalisation and the law. It proved a fascinating evening with one guest describing it as ‘mind changing.’ The judiciary, legal profession and media were all well represented and there

20th Jun 2016

Housing Bulletin No 13 – Human Rights and the Private Sector

Welcome to this, the thirteenth bulletin from the Housing Team. We hope that you will find the content of interest: if you wish to receive further updates you can subscribe by replying to [email protected] This bulletin discusses the judgment in the case of McDonald (by her litigation friend Duncan J McDonald) v McDonald & others [2016] UKSC 28.

20th Jun 2016

Stephen Murch has been elected as a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn

42 Bedford Row are delighted to announce that Stephen Murch has been elected as a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn. This follows his recent appointment as the Inn’s Governor of the College of Advocacy. The College is the body of the Inns of Court which is replacing the Advocacy Training Council in co-ordinating the training of

6th Jun 2016