Introduction: Last Wednesday, 16 February 2022, the Supreme Court ruled against Bloomberg LP in a landmark privacy case holding that, as a legitimate starting point, a person under a criminal investigation has a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of information relating to that investigation. Facts: This was a long running claim, which arose as […]
Leon Kazakos QC leading Merry van Woodenberg, instructed by Cameron Snodgrass of Murrays Partnership, represented X – a 16 year old boy with substantial developmental difficulties – at his trial for the murder of Clinton Evbota. X was accused of ‘joint enterprise’ participation in a gang attack by seven youths on an estate in South East London, and was 14 […]
Welcome to the Autumn edition of the Crime Group Newsletter. Leon Kazakos QC Editor Editor’s Note Welcome to the Autumn edition of the 2 Hare Court Crime Group Newsletter. In an effort to distract us all from the pandemic and a second lockdown the contributors to this edition have tried not to focus on the […]
Leon Kazakos QC and Rebecca Erkan-Bax represented an employee of a high street building society who was charged with murder. Michael Hyde became caught up in an incident involving a number of people after his family home was attacked by two armed men in the days before Christmas 2019. One of the men who was […]
On 21 July 2020, the Government published draft legislation in anticipation of the next Finance Bill (which will eventually become Finance Act 2021) and a policy paper to accompany the draft. Among the provisions are proposals to assist HMRC in pursuing promoters and enablers of tax avoidance schemes, including the granting of further and wider […]
