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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
Awards & Recognition
