Pret A Manger was fined £800,000 for a health and safety offence, relating to an incident when a member of staff became locked in a small walk-in freezer in a remote kitchen at Victoria Coach Station, following the failure of the door release mechanism. The member of staff was hospitalised with suspected hypothermia having been found […]
Richard Heller considers the conjoined appeals in R (on the application of City of York Council) v AUH and others and R (Birmingham City Council) v BIY and ARA (Sec of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy intervening) (‘the York Case’ and ‘the Birmingham Case’), in which the Court of Appeal held that paragraph […]
2 Hare Court were proud to participate in the recent David Jones (Sky Sports) charity golf day in support of Blood Cancer UK. Pictured is the team, comprising Chris Coltart KC, Richard Heller, and Jack Shah, alongside their team captain, former West Ham and Wales footballer, James Collins. It was a terrific day out in […]
Welcome to the latest edition of the Crime Group Newsletter. Fiona Robertson Editor Foreword Welcome to the summer edition of the 2 Hare Court Crime Group newsletter. With public confidence in the police being challenged over the pandemic, Hannah Thomas looks at breaches of Covid rules and protestors’ rights and Grace Forbes considers the Court […]
Acting on behalf of Oxfordshire Trading Standards, Richard Heller prosecuted a complex matter which resulted in the conviction of the defendant, Lewis McEwan, for conspiring with an unidentified co-conspirator to defraud an elderly man by acquiring the freehold title to his home under an unauthorised reversion scheme, which would have resulted in the complainant transferring […]
