Congratulations to Andrew Colman, winner of the Professional Disciplinary and Regulatory Junior of the Year, and Sarah Przybylska, winner of Crime and Extradition Junior of the Year at the Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2024. The research for Legal 500 Bar awards is based on feedback from 300,000 clients (both lay clients and instructing solicitors), submissions […]
Welcome to the latest edition of the Crime Group Newsletter. Fiona Robertson Editor Foreword It has been a busy year in the criminal world with developments in several areas. Nneka Akudolu KC and Rebecca Malczewski detail the approach to sentencing in cases brought pursuant to the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 following Nneka’s representation of […]
Sallie Bennett-Jenkins KC represented her client in a case involving multiple allegations of occasioning actual bodily harm and strangulation. The allegations arose against a background of acrimonious divorce and financial proceedings. Sallie advised on the instruction of a pathologist and a psychiatrist, both of whose reports were served on the prosecution together with a large […]
On 16 September 2024 at Southwark Crown Court HHJ Rimmer granted permission for Anna Machkevitch to appeal, out of time, her January 2020 conviction. Although arguments of improper motive and bias would have been advanced had the appeal been heard, the SFO offered no evidence, and her conviction was quashed and she was found not […]
On Monday, the House of Lords Statutory Inquiries Committee published its report on recommended reforms to the work of statutory inquiries. The report is published in the context of 18 public inquires taking place in the UK this year alone, and recent significant developments in the Grenfell Tower, Infected Blood, Post Office and Covid-19 Inquiries. […]
