Ben Rich represented Isle of Wight Council in the successful prosecution of Jonathan Platt, the parent who took his child to Disney World on holiday in school term time, and ended up in the Supreme Court. The magistrates had thrown the case out on a submission of no case to answer in October 2015, but […]
Tom Day secured the licence for a Cliff Richard concert at Catton Hall in Derbyshire at a hearing before South Derbyshire District Council’s licensing committee. The concert, held in the grounds of the stately home, is part of his 2017 tour of the UK and Ireland. Tom Day was instructed by David Edwards of Harrison […]
On 20 to 22 June 2017, 2 Hare Court and Turnstone Law will be hosting legal clinics at the Health & Safety Expo. David Whittaker, James Buchanan and Julia Faure Walker, together with Simon Joyston-Bechal from Turnstone Law, will answer delegates’ legal questions and deliver presentations on health & safety prosecutions. The Expo is advertised […]
Nicholas Hall represented the family of an elderly man who was killed by his neighbour twenty hours after the police received an email to remove residents from the area. The assailant, who has since been detained in a secure mental health unit, was known to both mental health services and the police prior to the […]
Mark Graffius and Nikita McNeill represented the Financial Controller of the Italian Wine Company who was tried at The Central Criminal Court for the Fraudulent Evasion of Duty and VAT. The Italian Wine Company was a Registered Excise Dealer and Shipper, trading in goods brought into the UK from the European Union under excise duty […]
