News & Events
News & Events
We are pleased to announce that Outer Temple members Tom Gibson and Nicholas Hill have been successfully appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. The appointments are effective as of 29th February 2016, for the duration of five years.
News 25 Jan, 2016
Richard Lissack QC and Nicholas Hill successfully defend an international property management company (with over 1,100 sites in the UK) against a prosecution brought by the London Borough of Havering. The case, listed across two weeks at Snaresbrook Crown Court, concluded after two days following cross-examination of the Prosecution’s expert Consultant Engineer, the Prosecution accepting that they no longer had a realistic prospect of securing a conviction. The case was based on an alleged breach of s4 of the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974 following serious injury to a 12 year old boy resulting from his deliberate misuse of a flying escalator installation. The Defence case was founded on three principal arguments: (i) that the prosecution was…
News 10 Sep, 2013
