Mark Graffius QC and Sophia Dower secure a Not Guilty verdict in historic murder trial at Chelmsford Crown Court. This was one of the first trials to successfully take place under the new Covid-19 safety measures implemented in the Crown Court. On 26 December 1998, Grant Byrom suffered a fatal stab wound to the heart […]
At the conclusion of a four week trial at the Central Criminal Court, prosecuted by Jonathan Rees QC and Will Martin, the defendants Alex Lanning and Jonathan Camille were convicted, respectively, of the murder and manslaughter of Tashan Daniel. Yesterday, the two men were sentenced. Lanning was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term […]
Chambers is delighted to announce that from 1st September 2020 Alexandra Tampakopoulos is to be appointed to the Attorney General’s Civil Panel C.
Jonathan Laidlaw QC writes, “Chambers is sad to announce the death of William Denny CBE QC who died on 10 August, aged 92. To those of us who were then young in Chambers, Bill was something of a God like figure, with a stellar practice, much of it in Hong Kong. There can have been […]
The poisoning of the former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March 2018 was a truly shocking event. It was another throwback to the Cold War with the nerve agent, Novichok, playing the deadly role assumed by radioactive polonium in the 2006 assassination of Alexander Litvinenko in London. Mr […]
