News & Events
News & Events
We are pleased to announce that Martina Murphy has been shortlisted for Employment ‘Junior Counsel of the Year’ at the International Employment Lawyer (IEL) Awards taking place on Wednesday 13th November at The Dorchester, London. The annual International Employment Lawyer Awards recognises the very best private practice and in-house teams from around the globe. Martina Murphy has been shortlisted for ‘Junior Counsel of the Year’ for 2024. This award recognises the advocacy, investigative, and advisory skills of leading independent junior advocates from around the globe. Nominees will have worked on high-profile, cutting-edge disputes, been instructed in sensitive workplace investigations, or acted on complex advisory matters in the past 12 months. To view a full list of nominees, click here. Find…
News 2 Oct, 2024
The final report of the Brook House Inquiry, in which Paul Livingston was Junior Counsel to the Inquiry, was published yesterday, 19th September 2023. The Inquiry, chaired by Kate Eves, was established to investigate the mistreatment of people detained at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre from April to August 2017, following a BBC Panorama investigation which was broadcast in September 2017, showing covert footage recorded over that period. The Inquiry found 19 incidents in which there was credible evidence of acts or omissions that were capable of amounting to mistreatment contrary to Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, including inappropriate use of force, unnecessary infliction of pain, physical violence, threatening and humiliating comments, and inappropriate segregation. Findings…
External Publications 20 Sep, 2023
