Welcome to the Spring 2019 edition of 2 Hare Court’s Private Prosecutions Group newsletter. In this edition: Alison Levitt QC and Hannah Thomas discuss how to take steps that are quite routine for a public prosecutor but pose more difficulties for a private prosecutor, namely obtaining fingerprint evidence at the investigation stage, and obtaining an […]
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.