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Chicks Cup Winner

42BR beat-off strong competition from financial institutions and lawyers to claim second prize in the latest charity quiz for our chosen charity, Chicks. Chicks provide free respites breaks for disadvantaged children at their centres in Cornwall, Devon and Derbyshire. The quiz was hosted by Incisive Media in Haymarket, London, and Lawrence Gosling, editor of Investment Week, acted as quiz master. We raised over £1,600 which will be used to help fund week long breaks for kids.

26th Sep 2016

Archer v Titchener: Did Judge Loomis get it right?

After the almost unbearable tension of the criminal hearing to determine whether or not Helen would be found guilty of stabbing Rob, last week saw the family court hearing to determine the living and contact arrangements for Henry and Jack. Four members of the chambers’ family team, who are all addicted to the Archers, have

19th Sep 2016

Francesca Conn secured Human Rights Acts damages of £15,000 for a child and £6,000 for the parent following care proceedings

Francesca Conn secured Human Rights Acts damages of £15,000 for a child and £6,000 for the parent following care proceedings. The local authority was found to have treated her client, the disabled parent, in a hostile and judgmental manner and to have failed to have due regard to its Equality Act 2010 obligations towards him,

9th Sep 2016

Housing Bulletin No 15 – Some Top Tips for Tenancy Fraud Cases

Welcome to this, the fifteenth 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] Some Top Tips for Tenancy Fraud Cases Six years ago, the National Fraud Authority launched its Social Housing Tenancy Fraud Project that

5th Sep 2016

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