19th Jul 2019News
The Department of Health and Social Care has published its response to the consultation on proposals to reform the regulation of healthcare professionals. The changes are aimed at making the fitness to practise process more efficient and user-friendly as well as ensuring greater consistency in the powers of the various statutory regulatory bodies. The reforms […]
19th Jul 2019News
Chambers are delighted to announce that from 2nd September 2019 Howard Watkinson is to be appointed to the Attorney-General’s A panel and Nikita McNeill the London C panel.
18th Jul 2019News
The recent decision in Johnson [2019] EWHC 1709 (Admin) has thrown private prosecutions into the spotlight as never before and so it is especially timely that the Private Prosecutors’ Association (‘PPA’) has published the first edition of the Code for Private Prosecutors (the Code’). The Code is essential reading for those contemplating bringing any type […]
12th Jul 2019News
Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC secured the acquittal of her client MM, who was accused of multiple counts of historical rape on his natural daughter between the years of 2002 and 2010 when she would have been aged between 8 and 15. The jury unanimously acquitted the defendant in under 2 hours of all counts. Sallie was […]
11th Jul 2019News
Vivienne Tanchel was instructed as leading junior to represent Mr X, one of 10 defendants, said to be the trusted and longstanding book keeper of the main defendant, in a £2million fraud against small businesses. It was alleged that the businesses were sold packages enabling them to switch energy suppliers on the false premise that […]