News & Events
News & Events
The High Court has reversed the decision of a circuit judge and assessors and struck out a race discrimination claim against the ambulance and police services. Sir Charles Grey found that the County Court had been wrong to find the claim had a real chance of success on the basis that additional evidence to support it might emerge.
News 17 Jun, 2012
Is giving life-sustaining treatment in the best interests of a person lacking capacity but fully aware of her situation? Mark Mullins recently represented the Health Authority in A local authority v E & others, the first case in which the Court of Protection has had to grapple with this question. In previous cases courts have declared lawful the withdrawal of life sustaining treatment from persons in a PVS or minimally conscious and from the very young and very old terminally ill. The position of an adult lacking capacity but able to express her views has never been dealt with before. Giving judgement in the Court of Protection on Friday 15th June 2012, Mr Justice Peter Jackson described the factors for…
News 17 Jun, 2012
Alan Jenkins instructed to represent army doctor Dr Keilloh at GMC proceedings which commenced 11th June 2012. The doctor has been accused of covering up the death of the Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa, who suffered 93 separate injuries at the hands of British soldiers.
News 11 Jun, 2012
Will Young acted for the Claimant in successfully resisting an appeal by an employer against a finding that it had unfairly dismissed and discriminated against her (in the case of Rojas v Market One Ltd). The Employment Tribunal (before whom Will appeared for the Claimant in 2011) decided that the Claimant’s dismissal was as a result of her inability to work full time from the office, which she could not do due to child care responsibilities. This was held to amount to unfair dismissal and sex discrimination. On appear to the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the finding that the dismissal amounted to direct discrimination was overturned, but the findings that the dismissal was unfair and amounted to indirect discrimination were upheld.
News 5 Jun, 2012
Ben Compton QC represented Virgin Media Plc at the recent inquest into the death of baby Tommy Hollis who was killed when a lamppost support was cut by mistake and fell on his pram during a road work scheme in Chiswick.
News 24 May, 2012
Will Young, instructed by Irwin Mitchell LLP, recently acted pro bono for the families of three British teenagers tragically killed in a coach crash in Thailand in June 2011.
News 23 May, 2012
Richard Hitchcock, James Rickards, David Grant and Keith Bryant all appeared before Vos J in Industrial Acoustics Company Ltd v Crowhurst & Ors, the latest in a growing line of summary judgment applications for rectification of pension deeds and rules all featuring members of Outer Temple Chambers.
News 17 May, 2012
Fiona Horlick recently appeared in the Privy Council representing a man, Raymond Drysdale, convicted of murdering a solicitor in Jamaica. It was an appeal against conviction. Mr Drysdale was charged, together with three other people (one of whom was also appealing), of the murder in which the solicitor had her throat slit in her office in Jamaica. The appeal raised important issues of law including severance, identification and good character. Fiona was instructed by George Brown of Reed Smith, the international law firm. Judgement has been reserved.
News 16 May, 2012
The judgment in Shah v HSBC Private Bank is now out. After three interlocutory appeals in the Court of Appeal in which the Bank largely succeeded, they have now succeeded completely at trial. Richard Lissack QC and Nicholas Medcroft acted as Leading and Junior Counsel for the Bank. The Claimants put their claims for in excess of $300,000,000 on two bases: first, that the Bank was in breach of contract in failing to process their payment instructions; second, that the Bank was in breach of contract in failing to provide them with information as to the facts that had caused it to fail to effect the first and second transactions, documentary evidence of the same, the name of the authority…
News 15 May, 2012
Anthony Haycroft has successfully defended a Preston GP who was a paediatric specialist in the GMC accused of lying and perjury. The GP faced allegations in connection with two patients. The first was a 3 week old baby who died the day after the GP saw the baby in February 2009 of a very rare condition, myocarditis.
News 14 May, 2012
Andrew Short QC, leading Naomi Cunningham, has secured a significant victory in ongoing mass equal pay litigation against Birmingham City Council. The Council argued that a number of claims were defeated because the claimants had agreed to the modified grievance procedure, which required them not only to state their grievance, but to set out the basis for it – and they had failed to set out the basis.
News 1 May, 2012
Ben Bradley, instructed by Anthony Gold to represent the family of the deceased, successfully invited HM Coroner for NW London to make a rule 43 recommendation to the London Ambulance Service (“LAS”). LAS currently automatically cancels ambulances in circumstances where patients are triaged into the lowest category of severity. The coroner will ask LAS to review the manner in which it communicates this cancellation to service-users. At present, service-users could be left with the impression the ambulance is still on its way. The coroner was not critical of LAS but has recommended that their systems be reviewed. The coroner also found that failings on the part of one of the NHS Trusts involved in the care of the deceased, contributed…
News 24 Apr, 2012