Chambers are delighted to announce that 2 Hare Court has been shortlisted for Crime Set of the Year in the Legal 500 2019 Awards. We are pleased to have received nominations for 3 members of Chambers: Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC – shortlisted for Crime Silk of the Year Christopher Coltart QC – shortlisted for Crime […]
Welcome to this inaugural edition of 2 Hare Court’s Private Prosecutions Group’s newsletter; we hope that it finds you refreshed after a summer break. In this edition: Oliver Glasgow QC and Lewis MacDonald write about the gathering of evidence with a view to bringing a private prosecution, suggesting that private prosecutors should have greater investigatory […]
Lurking within the Companies Act 2006 are a number of strict liability offences, which are coupled with ‘reverse burden’ statutory defences (ie. those which require a director to prove the defence in question). In the event of prosecutions under these provisions, there are two interesting questions for defence practitioners to consider, namely (a) the extent […]
Christopher Coltart QC has been appointed to the Arbitrators’ Panel of the prestigious Sports Resolutions Ltd, which supplies Tribunal Chairmen to a wide range of sports bodies for the purposes of their disciplinary hearings.
Christopher Coltart QC is instructed to represent Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the centre of the Facebook data harvesting row. The case remains under investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office.