25th Oct 2019News
Mark Graffius and Merry van Woodenberg represented a man charged with involvement in a conspiracy to defraud various film production equipment companies. The man was alleged to have set up a company and various bank accounts, that were then used as vehicles to assist in a cross-jurisdictional conspiracy involving the large-scale theft of film production […]
17th Oct 2019News
The case stems from an extensive undercover investigation into alleged corruption in football by The Daily Telegraph in 2016, the most high profile casualty of which was Sam Allardyce, the then England manager, who resigned his position. Two football agents, Guiseppe ‘Pino’ Pagliara and Dax Price, and a former assistant manager of Championship side Barnsley […]
4th Oct 2019News
Merry van Woodenberg acted for the first defendant in an ICO prosecution for the unlawful obtaining and disclosure of data, contrary to the Data Protection Act. Merry was instructed in January 2018 to represent an employee of a claims management company, who was alleged to have passed on unlawfully obtained data contained in a ‘lifestyle […]
14th Aug 2019News
Merry van Woodenberg successfully defended a case at Kingston Crown Court, regarding allegations of sexual and physical assaults on a four year old and a five year old. The case was part of the pilot procedure for pre-recorded cross-examination of young and vulnerable witnesses. The children were also the youngest ever to have participated in […]
25th Mar 2019News
Chambers is delighted to announce that Merry van Woodenberg, formerly of Foundry Chambers, has accepted an invitation to join 2 Hare Court. Merry is the fourth tenant to join Chambers in the last few months, the others being Alison Levitt QC, Nneka Akudolu and Hannah Thomas. This of course comes on top of the elevation of Narita […]
