News & Events
News & Events
We are delighted to announce that Nathan Tavares QC, Mark Mullins and Simon Burrows have been authorised to sit as fee paid judges of the Court of Protection. They will deal with both health & welfare and property affairs cases. At the recent Court of Protection Practitioners Association annual conference in Manchester, Vice President of the Court, Mr Justice Hayden, said that the quality of applications for this recruitment exercise was the highest he had seen in any comparable competition. He welcomed the experience that new appointees to the Court would bring. Nathan, appointed QC this year, is a specialist clinical negligence and personal injury practitioner. His particular interests are in acquired brain injury, the Court of Protection and mental health law. Mark…
News 27 Sep, 2018
The Ulaanbaatar Declaration David Russell QC is one of the authors of The Ulaanbaatar Declaration, which was signed by the Global Tax Advisers Platform (“GTAP”) on 12 September 2018. The Declaration sets out key priorities in international taxation, and promotes international cooperation among tax advisers, and optimisation of the national and international taxation framework. GTAP is an international platform that gathers national and international organisations of tax professionals from all around the world. The representatives of CFE Tax Advisers Europe, The Asia-Oceania Tax Consultants’ Association, The West African Union of Tax Institutes, The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, The International Association of Financial Executives Institutes, and The Association of Mediterranean Auditors have all signed, presented and executed the Declaration.…
News 26 Sep, 2018
Oliver Powell was invited by British Marine Insurance Financial and Legal Services to speak at the Southampton Boat Show. His seminar was a high level examination of the corporate offences of failure to prevent the criminal facilitation of tax evasion. In addition to a detailed analysis of the offences of failure to prevent facilitation of UK tax evasion (s.45 CFA 2017) and failure to prevent facilitation of foreign tax evasion (s.46 CFA 2017), the seminar developed a practical case study example and discussed the reasonable prevention procedures that a company should have in place in order to avoid the commission of an offence. The seminar was well attended and included, amongst others, representatives from: MS Amlin, A-Plan Insurance, Nash &…
News 26 Sep, 2018
Limitation period for lodging appeals: Two members of Outer Temple Chambers, Saul Margo and Will Young, acted recently for the successful Appellants in joined appeals in the Court of Appeal. These joined cases contain new guidance regarding extensions of time for lodging appeals to the Employment Appeal Tribunal. In both cases (Bonnie v DWP and Rana v LB Ealing), the Appellants had their claims dismissed in the ET and sought to appeal to the EAT. Similarly, in both instances the ET sent the judgment/reasons to the Appellants’ previous legal representatives, who had in fact come off the record and ceased acting for them. This resulted in the Appellants receiving the judgment/reasons some time later than they would have done, thus…
News 25 Sep, 2018
The London Borough of Enfield v Matrix Deputies Ltd & Anor [2018] EWCOP 22 (Matrix No2) sets down important guidance on the practice to be followed when an application is made to the Court of Protection to call in a deputy security bond where it is said that there has been a loss to the estate of an incapacitated person. It builds on previous guidance from the court in Re Gladys Meek and sets out what evidence the COP will expect to see and the process to be followed. The judgment also looks at the entitlement of COP deputies to raise fees for their role and at what rates clarifying a number of areas of contention first highlighted in the…
News 25 Sep, 2018
On Friday 14th September, Alex Haines gave a one-day workshop to the Staff Council of the United Nations Office in Vienna (“UNOV”). The workshop attendees included, inter alia, employees of the United Nations, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (“UNODC”) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (“IAEA”). The workshop covered international administrative law and the United Nations’ internal justice system including its two-tier judicial system consisting of the Dispute Tribunal (“UNDT”) and Appeals Tribunal (“UNAT”). It also included a discussion on the new UN compensation package and the Global Service Delivery Model for the UN Secretariat. The recent case law discussed included the UNAT cases of Lloret Alcaniz et al. v SG, 2018-UNAT-840 and Mirella et al. v…
News 21 Sep, 2018
Outer Temple Chambers is proud to have been nominated within Professional Discipline in the upcoming Chambers UK Bar Awards 2018, with Fiona Horlick nominated for Junior of the Year 2018. The Awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, 25th of October at The London Hilton on Park Lane and are based on research for the 2019 edition of Chambers Bar. The Awards also reflect notable achievements over the past 12 months including outstanding work and excellence in client service. To instruct Fiona, please contact Graham Woods or Paul Barton, Business Development Directors, Health team.
News 10 Sep, 2018
At Sheffield Crown Court on Friday 14 August, Tim Green appeared for the HSE in the prosecution of Abbey Forge Limited. The health and safety failings led to a £500,000 fine. The case arose from the death of a worker when manipulating very hard steel alloys under a 50 CWT hammer. BBC coverage of the case is available to read here.
News 6 Sep, 2018
John McKendrick QC, instructed by Hannah Taylor of Bevan Brittan, appeared for an NHS Trust in a complex medical treatment case before Mr Justice Keehan. Judgment was handed down on 30 August 2018 after several days of oral evidence and submissions. The parties accepted aspects of the patient’s proposed care plan should be made, however, the judge ruled that CPR continued to be in the patient’s best interests, despite her frail condition. The case has been the subject of a number of media reports such as Daily Mail or ITV.
News 3 Sep, 2018
John and Alex have been invited by the Bar Council to speak at the first English Law Week in Mexico, a joint initiative between the Law Society and Bar Council. On 3 September, John will speak on the regulation of Fintech and his experiences as the Attorney General of Anguilla responsible for the Anguilla Utility Token Act, the first legislation to regulate utility tokens. On 4 September, John will chair two sessions on combating corruption and Alex will speak at the same sessions on corruption in the context of his experience of sanctions and Multilateral Development Banks. They will also take part in several networking opportunities, including at the British Ambassador’s residence. Alex and John both speak fluent Spanish and…
News 31 Aug, 2018
In proceedings brought before the Lloyd’s Enforcement Board, two senior underwriters at a Lloyd’s Managing Agent have each accepted charges of discreditable conduct relating to improper appropriation by them of confidential information of commercial value to their employer. Background Mr Christopher Larkby and Mr David Larkby both worked as senior underwriters in the High Risk team at ERS Syndicate Management Limited (‘ERS’), underwriting on behalf of syndicate 218 until 2017, when they joined another insurance firm (not regulated by Lloyd’s). As persons who worked for a Lloyd’s managing agent, both individuals were and remain within Lloyd’s enforcement jurisdiction in respect of the acts committed during the relevant period. Over a period of a year prior to their respective departures, Messrs…
News 29 Aug, 2018
Outer Temple Chambers is proud to have been shortlisted in the category of ‘Chambers of the Year’ at the 2018/19 STEP Private Client Awards. A winner will be nominated for each category and all winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on the 7th November 2018. We congratulate our barristers in the Private Client team for this great achievement and wish them the best of luck.
News 6 Aug, 2018
