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• Category: Events
  • Regulatory Crime Seminar 2019
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  • SEMINAR: Enforcement Notices post Chevron – Case analysis and Implications for the Future
  • Queensbury Legal 2
  • Financial and Trade Sanctions: The New Landscape
  • The Annual Regulatory Crime Seminar
  • The Lammy Review: A Conversation and Drinks Reception
  • 2 Hare Court at the Health & Safety Expo
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• Category: News
  • Gavin Irwin successfully defends company director in £5million VAT evasion
  • Marios Lambis QC becomes first Professional Discipline barrister to be appointed QC
  • Martin Heslop QC’s client aquitted of Murder at Manchester Crown Court
  • James Buchanan successfully defends director of roofing company
  • HM Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Will Martin and Grace Forbes successfully appeal £1m confiscation order
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes New Tenant Madeleine Wolfe
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes New Tenant
  • Gavin Irwin and Sarah Przybylska act in ‘UK’s biggest ever’ banknote counterfeiting case
  • Merry van Woodenberg acts for FCA in first prosecution of market manipulation offences under the Financial Services Act 2012
  • Husband and wife team convicted of human trafficking and controlling prostitution
  • Draft Terms of Reference for Covid 19 Inquiry Finally Published
  • Nikita McNeill appears in Inquest into the death of Corrie McKeague
  • Sophia Dower’s client acquitted in extraordinary case of kidnap by fraud
  • Privacy for suspects under investigation – Bloomberg LP v ZXC
  • Neelam Gomersall acts for deputy headteacher acquitted of assaulting a 10-year-old student
  • Nikita McNeill instructed in Review into the SFO’s conduct of the Unaoil case
  • Marios Lambis Successfully Defends General Practitioner
  • Sarah Przybylska and Tom Day appointed Recorders for the South Eastern Circuit
  • Conspiracy to defraud trial results in conviction
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes New Tenant Richard Heller
  • Hannah Thomas acts for prominent anti-lockdown activist charged with breaching Coronavirus Regulations by protesting during lockdown
  • Congratulations to Marios Lambis, Gudrun Young & Nneka Akudolu on their Queen’s Counsel Appointments
  • Christmas Opening Hours
  • Mark Graffius QC and Grace Forbes instructed in EncroChat Conspiracy to Murder
  • Mark Graffius QC and Richard Davies obtain verdict of Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Christmas Common Murder Case
  • Nneka Akudolu prosecutes defendant convicted in poisoning case
  • Gudrun Young successfully acts for Intensive Care Consultant accused of sexual assault
  • Jack Gilliland acts for social worker before Fitness to Practise Committee at Social Work England
  • Grand Canyon helicopter crash – Gudrun Young represented family of groom at the inquest of the 5 friends who were killed
  • Gudrun Young successfully acts for Dentist accused of sexual assault in Fitness to Practice Hearing before the General Dental Council
  • The 6th edition of Rook & Ward on Sexual Offences Law and Practice has been published. Fiona Robertson co-authored the chapter on DNA evidence
  • A rare Murder verdict and a CPS inquiry ordered by the court
  • Complete acquittal in historic child sexual abuse trial
  • Rebecca Erkan-Bax’s client acquitted of multiple counts of rape, assault by penetration and battery
  • Chambers & Partners UK 2022 Rankings Released
  • Another Fraud case collapses due to expert witnesses and disclosure failings
  • 2 Hare Court are looking forward to exhibiting at the Bar Council’s Pupillage Fair 2021
  • Mark Graffius QC leads Gudrun Young defending a man charged with murder and attempted murder at the Central Criminal Court
  • Martin Hicks QC, Chris Foulkes and Gavin Irwin acted for two former Quindell directors investigated by the SFO and which has now concluded without criminal charges
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC and Howard Watkinson act in $8 billion corruption case
  • Beaconsfield Coroner halts inquest for police to re-open criminal investigation
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 UK 2022
  • Alison Levitt QC Appointed Circuit Judge
  • Alison Levitt QC’s Independent Review report published
  • IICSA report concludes that child sexual abuse has been found in most major UK religions
  • Neelam Gomersall’s client acquitted of s18 wounding with intent and s20 unlawful wounding after alleged street glassing
  • Marios Lambis and Gavin Irwin both shortlisted in Chambers UK Bar Awards 2021
  • Noise Abatement Notice quashed on appeal: Michael Rawlinson appearing
  • Rebecca Erkan-Bax’s client acquitted of rape and attempted rape
  • Nneka Akudolu prosecutes Kadian Nelson for offences of rape and kidnap of a 13 year old girl
  • Tom Day acts for international restaurant group in licensing application
  • Fiona Robertson appointed Treasury Counsel Monitoree
  • Angus Bunyan appears for the SFO in two Deferred Prosecution Agreements approved on 19 July 2021
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Lewis MacDonald, instructed by Howard Kennedy, act in private prosecution for Supreme
  • The Times | Lawyer of the week: Kate Blackwell QC
  • Rob Rinder awarded MBE
  • Daniel Morgan Inquiry
  • Jermaine Baker Public Inquiry commences
  • Narita Bahra QC writes for Counsel Magazine ‘Disclosure: coming to a screen near you’
  • Narita Bahra QC Accepts Master of the Bench Invitation
  • Gavin Irwin’s client acquitted in Salford ‘A-Team’ connected trial
  • Defendant accused of murder – Crown accept guilty plea to manslaughter by reason of loss of control: sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Pret cleared at Bristol Crown Court
  • Alison Levitt QC and Chris Foulkes appointed in Independent Review of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
  • Court of Appeal quashes Post Office convictions in historic judgment
  • Section 51 procedure does not require presence of defendant – R v Umerji [2021] EWCA Crim 598
  • Community Benefit Society, represented by Alexandra Tampakopoulos, has appeal allowed by Court of Appeal against sentence for Health and Safety offence.
  • Martin Heslop QC and Merry van Woodenberg’s client acquitted of murder
  • Homicide convictions upheld and limits of the principle of Overwhelming Supervening Act emphatically restated by the Court of Appeal
  • Peter Lownds’ client acquitted on direction of the judge in major conspiracy to supply cocaine trial
  • Racially aggravated assault of a blind Complainant at the “Magic Mike” show – Sophia Dower acts for client in this acquittal
  • Nneka Akudolu’s client found Not Guilty in multi-handed £3m conspiracy to supply heroin
  • Towuaghantse v GMC [2021] EWHC 681 (Admin) Coroner’s findings, independence of experts and registrant denials: this case is not one to put on the “read later” pile
  • Acquittal for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC in historic manslaughter charge
  • CrPR 36.15 (Reopening determinations in the CACD) and the perils for litigants in person
  • North Yorkshire Police Sergeant acquitted, Michael Rawlinson defending
  • International conspiracies to import and supply drugs, firearms and money laundering – Narita Bahra QC & Hannah Thomas instructed to defend
  • Defending EncroChat
  • Narita Bahra QC and Harry Bentley instructed to defend in a cross cultural relationship Murder
  • Two men convicted of Bis’s murder
  • “Overhauling” sentencing The Police Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes New Tenants
  • Forensic Science – codes of practice and joint statements
  • Narita Bahra QC and Harry Bentley’s positive engagement with the opposition, in a terrorism trial, results in a just outcome.
  • David Whittaker QC defends bank compliance officer against allegation of money laundering
  • Clean bowled – Eynsham Cricket Club’s appeal dismissed by the Court of Appeal
  • Admissibility of EncroChat communications in criminal proceedings
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC acts in landmark EncroChat decision
  • Lancashire Detective Constable cleared of Gross Misconduct at disciplinary hearing, Michael Rawlinson defending
  • When is an expert not an expert?
  • Leon Kazakos QC and Merry van Woodenberg’s client acquitted of murder and manslaughter
  • Sophia Dower successfully appeals sentence in Court of Appeal
  • Gudrun Young acts for Dentist completely exonerated in Fitness to Practice Hearing before the General Dental Council
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC and Howard Watkinson act for SFO in respect of guilty pleas to the winning of multi-billion dollar contracts in the UAE
  • Fiona Robertson appears in Reading terrorism case
  • Eight members of 2 Hare Court appointed to SFO panels of external counsel
  • Oliver Glasgow QC appointed First Senior Treasury Counsel
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Jack Shah
  • Christmas Opening Hours
  • Sophia Dower’s client given suspended sentence in case of Causing Death by Dangerous Driving
  • Beckwith v SRA – Private lives restored?
  • Narita Bahra QC instructed to defend in a Drill Rap Murder
  • Women In Criminal Law Members Notification
  • Gavin Irwin explores the new criminal offences in the National Security and Investment Bill currently before parliament
  • 2 Hare Court Awarded Crime Set of the Year 2020 by Chambers UK
  • David Whittaker QC and Harry Bentley appear in final Operation Leopard trial
  • 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Autumn Newsletter
  • Nneka Akudolu secures unanimous convictions in three consecutive rape trials
  • Mark Graffius QC and Fiona Robertson secure Not Guilty verdict in Lockdown murder
  • Announcement
  • Chambers & Partners UK 2021 Rankings Released
  • Leon Kazakos QC & Rebecca Erkan-Bax’s client acquitted of murder, attempted murder and wounding with intent
  • Gudrun Young successfully represents former Blue Peter presenter and TV celebrity John Leslie
  • Mirchandani – some good news for Private Prosecutors
  • Justice Select Committee Report Published – Safeguards in Private Prosecutions
  • Zubair Ahmad QC secures an acquittal at Leeds Crown Court for a 20 year old female charged with Murder and Conspiracy to Rob
  • Michael Rawlinson successfully defends South Yorkshire Police Constable at gross misconduct hearing
  • 2 Hare Court are looking forward to exhibiting at the Bar Council’s Pupillage Fair 2020
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 UK 2021
  • Narita Bahra QC wins the AWA Awards 2020 Professions Category
  • 2 Hare Court shortlisted in 2 Categories for The 2020 Chambers Bar Awards
  • Boohoo publishes the Levitt QC Independent Review
  • Marios Lambis presents to ARDL ‘The Legality of Virtual Hearings’ – Thursday 24th September at 6pm
  • Narita Bahra QC and Harry Bentley instructed to defend in Decapitation Murder at the Central Criminal Court
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Christopher Gillespie appear at Manchester Arena Inquiry
  • Narita Bahra QC and Harry Bentley secure acquittals for defendant dubbed “The Master Mind” in three multi handed drugs conspiracies involving encrypted telephones.
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Kate Blackwell QC
  • Mark Graffius QC and Sophia Dower secure a Not Guilty verdict in historic murder trial
  • Alexandra Tampakopoulos appointed to Attorney General’s Panel
  • “Chambers is sad to announce the death of William Denny CBE QC”
  • Novichok inquest to examine possible responsibility of Russian state for the death of Dawn Sturgess
  • A new guideline for sentencing offenders with mental disorders, developmental disorders and neurological impairments has been published by the Sentencing Council
  • Iain Daniels writes article for The Stage on Hate Crime Bill
  • Tax Avoidance 2021 – The Finance Bill
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Iain Daniels
  • Gavin Irwin speaks on the Sanctions Regime: 2020 webinar with LexisNexis Practice and Risk Compliance
  • “Paying the penalty – abuse of process and the standard of proof in Finance Act 2007 Penalties”
  • Newsflash from the Private Prosecution Group
  • No strike-off for doctor found to have had a sexually-motivated conversation with someone he believed to be a child
  • 2 Hare Court Criminal Regulatory Newsletter
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Lewis MacDonald, instructed by Ian Ryan of Howard Kennedy, act for client cleared in the Baker McKenzie case at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
  • Judicial Appointments for Michael Rawlinson: Employment Judge and First Tier Regulatory Chamber.
  • Sarah Przybylska and Julia Faure Walker have been appointed Treasury Counsel
  • Narita Bahra Q.C shortlisted for Asian Women of Achievement Award
  • IICSA begins country’s first virtual public inquiry hearings
  • Permission to apply for judicial review granted in challenge to new terrorism law
  • Professional Discipline Group Newsletter – May 2020
  • Student misconduct allegations and the right to a fair hearing – Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC co-writes blog with Sandra Paul of Kingsley Napley
  • Chamber’s announces the death of W. John Jones
  • Gavin Irwin represents Chinese national in application for Account Freezing Orders (‘AFrOs’) by the NCA during the public health emergency
  • Sports Law Group Newsletter Spring Edition
  • Covid-19 News
  • Acquittal of Spanish model in Ministry of Defence money laundering
  • Martin Hicks QC secures suspended sentence for seafood trader who smuggled £53million of endangered eels from UK to the Far East over 2 year period
  • Jonathan Rees QC and Will Martin secure acquittal of boy accused of murder during a drugs robbery
  • Marios Lambis concludes Inquest into detention centre death
  • Michael Rawlinson successfully defends Nottinghamshire Police Constable at gross misconduct hearing
  • Christopher Coltart QC acts for FA in successful appeal in Daniel Sturridge case
  • Grenfell Tower Inquiry hearings resume
  • Narita Bahra QC & Harry Bentley defend in Cardiff murder
  • Professional Discipline Group Newsletter
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Rebecca Erkan-Bax
  • Business Crime Group Newsletter
  • Brendan Kelly QC enjoys success following High Court trial in Northern Ireland
  • Costs in Private Prosecutions: A Landmark Decision
  • GDC and Attempted Murder
  • Jonathan Rees QC and Nneka Akudolu secure the conviction of Muhammad Rodwan following machete attack on a police officer
  • Sports Law Group Newsletter
  • Identifiable “flesh and blood officer” not required to issue self-assessment
  • Defendants sentenced in football bribery trial; prosecuted by Brian O’Neill QC, Julia Faure Walker and Merry van Woodenberg
  • Congratulations to Leon Kazakos & Mark Graffius on their Queen’s Counsel Appointments
  • IICSA publishes report on Children Outside the UK
  • Merry van Woodenberg acts for Compliance Officer acquitted of involvement in Legal Aid Fraud
  • Martin Hicks QC secures early acquittal in Uber Eats Driver Murder Trial
  • Fiona Robertson secures acquittal in joint enterprise rape
  • Nneka Akudolu’s client found not guilty of the rape of ‘unconscious complainant’
  • Brian O’Neill QC, Julia Faure Walker and Merry van Woodenberg secure convictions in football bribery trial at Southwark Crown Court
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division) rules no higher duty of care on public bodies conducting litigation
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC defends in case dismissed from the Central Criminal Court today.
  • Narita Bahra QC and Laura Stephenson defend in international drug conspiracies prosecuted by The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency
  • Christopher Coltart QC acts for Investment Fund Manager in Private Prosecution
  • Joshua Carey in Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Success
  • 2 Hare Court shortlisted in 2 Categories for The Legal 500 UK Awards 2020
  • Nneka Akudolu Defends Client Aquitted in Car Park Gang Rape Trial
  • Narita Bahra QC & Will Martin Instructed To Defend In A Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Prosecution
  • Narita Bahra QC instructed to defend in a triple Murder Trial
  • Craig Ferguson secures the Acquittal of Sprinkler Contractor After a Trial Lasting 5 Weeks
  • Narita Bahra QC successfully defended in £11M Money Laundering Trial
  • Acquittal of Lead Defendant in £25M Money Laundering Excise Fraud at Southwark Crown Court
  • The Delta Arrangement: Disguised Remuneration
  • Business Crime & Financial Services Group Newsletter
  • Nikita McNeill Represented Coroner to Quash Inquest Following Murder Conviction
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures First Ever Extension of a Provisional Statement for a Large Casino
  • Mark Graffius and Merry van Woodenberg Defend in Complex International Film Industry Fraud Case at Southwark Crown Court
  • Gudrun Young Secures Acquittal in Historic Rape Case
  • Brian O’Neill QC, Julia Faure Walker & Merry van Woodenberg Prosecute Football Bribery Trial at Southwark Crown Court
  • A Cautionary Tale for Experts by Narita Bahra QC
  • Private Prosecution Group Newsletter
  • Tom Day secures acquittal of Director of Approved Inspector Company for Fire Safety Order offences
  • Sexual misconduct: it’s worse if you’re a nurse
  • New Notification of Death Regulations: Filling A Lacuna in the Law
  • Alison Levitt QC is announced as Visiting Professor to Goldsmiths
  • Merry van Woodenberg’s client acquitted in ICO prosecution for unlawful obtaining of private data
  • Annual Regulatory Crime Seminar 2019
  • Narita Bahra QC, Criminal Lawyer of the Year 2019
  • Peter Lownds and Grace Forbes Represent Businessman Accused of Million Pound “Pay Day Loan” Fraud
  • Michael Rawlinson secures reinstatement of Police Sergeant at Police Appeals Tribunal hearing
  • £7.3m Money Laundering Confiscation Order for Former Goldman Sachs Trader
  • Leon Kazakos Shortlisted for Crime Junior of the Year in the Chambers UK Bar Awards
  • Gudrun Young Represents Former Blue Peter Star John Leslie
  • Narita Bahra QC Shortlisted for ‘Women in Law Award – 100 Years’ and ‘Criminal Lawyer 2019’ in the Asian Legal Awards
  • Alison Levitt QC Appears as Guest on BBC Radio 4 to Discuss Misconduct in Public Office
  • Merry van Woodenberg Successfully Defends Man Charged with Sexual Offences Against a Four and a Five Year Old
  • Mark Graffius secures Not Guilty verdict in alleged Gangland Attempted Murder
  • Nneka Akudolu Secures Conviction of Accountant and Former Maths Tutor for Serious Sexual Assaults Against Former Students Spanning Period of 23 Years
  • Gudrun Young Leading Sophia Dower Represent “Career Conman” Mark Acklom in Romance Fraud
  • Will Martin Represents The FA as Millwall FC Fined and Ordered to Implement Action Plan Following Racist Chanting by Supporters
  • Changes to Regulation of Healthcare Professionals
  • Howard Watkinson & Nikita McNeill Appointed to Attorney General’s Panel
  • Code for Private Prosecutors Published
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC Secures Acquittal for Client in 17 Count Indictment of Historic Rape
  • Vivienne Tanchel’s Client Acquitted of Conspiracy to Defraud and Money Laundering in Excess of £2million
  • Religion v Regulation – Do Facebook Posts About the “Wicked Act” of Homosexuality Bring the Profession into Disrepute?
  • No Go v Bojo – Divisional Court’s Reasoning for Quashing Issue of Summons Against Boris Johnson
  • Costs Against Private Prosecutor Upheld by Divisional Court, as Will Martin Successfully Represents Interested Parties in Judicial Review Proceedings
  • Murder Convictions in Woolwich Fire case – Julia Faure Walker Prosecutes
  • Tom Day Successfully Appeals Sentence in the Court of Appeal
  • “Inappropriate Protracted and Hostile Questioning” – From the Panel: Beard v General Osteopathic Council [2019] EWHC 1561 (Admin)
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC, Representing Bereaved Daughter and Sister in Inquest into Deaths of 2 Women, Establishes Failings by Police
  • Newsflash: ‘A Just and Fair Culture in Medicine’ Independent Review of Gross Negligence Manslaughter Publishes its Report
  • Gavin Irwin Avoids Imprisonment For Immigration Adviser
  • Last Orders! The Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme and Trading Pending Appeal
  • Fiona Robertson Challenges Murder Convictions Following Disruptions to Jury Deliberations
  • Alison Levitt QC appears on BBC Radio 4’s Law in Action to Discuss Private Prosecutions in the Wake of the Accusations Made Against Boris Johnson MP of the Crime of Misconduct in Public Office
  • Martin Hicks QC Secures Acquittal in ‘Attempt Murder’ Retrial Ordered by Court of Appeal
  • “I’m pretty sure I glanced at something”: Due Diligence in Instructing Experts
  • Tom Day and JMW Solicitors LLP Secure Minimal Confiscation Order in European Cocaine Conspiracy
  • JUSTICE Publishes Report on Prosecuting Sexual Offences
  • Martin Hicks QC and Leon Kazakos Successfully Halt Private Prosecution
  • Marios Lambis Represents GP at Inquest of Six-Year-Old Boy
  • Major Carbon Credit & Diamond Trial Collapses After Narita Bahra QC Exposes Fundamental Disclosure Failings
  • Mark Graffius and Nikita McNeill Appear in Complex MTIC Alchohol Fraud
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Begins Inquest into the Murders of Christine and Lucy Lee
  • Zubair Ahmad QC Represents Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Niece in National Crime Agency Investigation into Breaches of the Syria Sanctions
  • Upper Tribunal Rules Schedule 55 Self-Assessment Penalty Regime is Proportionate
  • CPR31 Disclosure for AWRS Appeals
  • Joshua Carey Obtains Permission to Appeal to the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in £350,000 Damages Claim
  • Gavin Irwin and Fiona Robertson Conclude Six Month, Cross-Border, Fraud and Money Laundering Trial
  • Hannah Thomas Appears in the Divisional Court
  • Newsflash: Inquest Update
  • IICSA Report Published into Church of England Failures
  • Regulatory Crime Spring Newsletter
  • Gang Members Sentenced for Murder of Suffolk Teenager: Oliver Glasgow QC and Sarah Przybylska Prosecute
  • Nikita McNeill Appears in Inquest into the Death of Bristol University Student
  • Michael Rawlinson Acts for The FA in Successful Misconduct Proceedings Brought Against Cardiff City FC Manager Neil Warnock
  • David Whittaker QC and Gudrun Young successfully defend 17 year old boy charged with attempted murder in knife attack
  • Andrew Colman Successfully Defends General Practitioner Facing 39 Allegations
  • Michael Hayton QC Successfully Represents Dr Bawa-Garba
  • Sophia Dower Secures Acquittal of Teacher Accused of Assaulting 12 Year Old Girl in Road Rage Incident
  • Update to the Criminal Practice Directions: 1 April 2019
  • Michael Rawlinson Secures Reinstatement of PC Following Police Appeals Tribunal Hearing
  • Andrew Colman Successfully Defends Vaser Liposelection™ Practitioner Facing 28 Allegations
  • Andrew Hurst Appointed Circuit Judge
  • ‘Causation, Statistics and Survivability’
  • Chambers Welcomes New Tenants
  • 2 Hare Court Receives Certificate of Recognition for Well-being
  • Cantor Fitzgerald Should have Known its Transactions Were Connected with Fraud
  • Martin Hicks QC and Scott Ivill Secure Acquittal in Highly Publicised ‘Exorcism’ Killing Trial
  • The Relevance of Linked Organisations in Sentencing Corporate Defendents
  • Sweeping Changes to UK AML and Sanctions Regimes
  • Narita Bahra QC Marks First 100 Years and Becomes 1st Female Criminal Silk to Begin the “Lethbridge Gloves” Tradition on Silks Day
  • David Whittaker QC Successfully Defends Businessman Charged with Money Laundering
  • Brian O’Neill QC Secures Acquittal of Austrian Financier in Privately Prosecuted Fraud
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes 2 New Tenants
  • Jonathan Rees QC and Will Martin Secure Conviction of 6 Men for ‘Monstrous’ Acid Attack on Toddler
  • Gudrun Young Secures No Case to Answer in Controversial First Prosecution for ‘Transgender Hate Crime’
  • Jonathan Rees QC Secures Life Sentence for Boy Who Violently Murdered 14 Year Old Viktorija Sokolova
  • Private Prosecution Newsletter
  • Julia Faure Walker Appears as Junior Counsel to IICSA’s Children Outside the UK Investigation
  • Chris Gillespie Successfully Defends GP Accused of Improper Sexual Relationship with Former Patient
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Acts for SFO in Petrofac Corruption Plea
  • Michael Rawlinson Successful in Misconduct Defence of Detective Inspector
  • Congratulations to David Whittaker, Zubair Ahmad & Narita Bahra on Their Queen’s Counsel Appointments
  • Reasonable Excuse Revisited
  • Two City Businessmen Sentenced for Operating a “Clever and Sophisticated Fraud on Investors”: Angus Bunyan Prosecutes
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Accepts Master of the Bench Invitation
  • Nikita McNeill Represents Travel Company in Inquest into Death Following Balcony Fall
  • Narita Bahra and Tom Day Secure Acquittals in a Royal Mail Private Prosecution of a Multi Million Pound Fraud
  • Regulatory Crime Winter Newsletter
  • Sarah Przybylska Secures Conviction of Jamie Acourt on Drug Trafficking Charge
  • Litigation Privilege in the Board Room: WH Holding Ltd-v-E20 Stadium LLP [2018] EWCA Civ 2652
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Accepts Master of the Bench Invitation
  • Tax Team Winter Newsletter
  • 2 Hare Court Receives Multiple Nominations in Legal 500 2019 Awards
  • Gudrun Young Successfully Defends Leading Feminist & Anti-Racist Campaigner Linda Bellos OBE in Private Prosecution
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Successfully Defends in Malicious Prosecution Claim
  • Angus Bunyan and Howard Watkinson Obtain 10 Convictions in £8m Vehicle Fraud
  • Sophia Dower Successfully Appeals Against TFL’s Decision to Revoke Uber Driver’s Private Hire Licence
  • Brendan Kelly QC & Vivienne Tanchel Secure Acquittal in North Sea Gas Corruption Conspiracy
  • Costs Order Successfully Secured Against Private Prosecutor for Improperly Commencing Criminal Proceedings
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC in success in Court of Appeal Civil Division
  • Successful Submission of no Case to Answer in Murder for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC
  • Head of White Collar Crime at Mishcon de Reya Joins 2 Hare Court
  • Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley Secure Acquittals in Series of International and National Drugs Conspiracies
  • Chambers & Partners UK 2019 Rankings Released
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 2018
  • Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley Secure Acquittal for Client Charged with Multi-Million Pound Conspiracy to Manufacture, Import, Export and Distribute Anabolic Steroids (Class C drugs)
  • Craig Ferguson Secures the Acquittal of Topcon Construction Ltd
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Leads for the Crown in Important Court of Appeal Decision
  • Tom Day has successfully overturned an order made by the Interim Orders Tribunal of the MPTS
  • Brian O’Neill QC Secures Acquittal in Long Running Civil Private Prosecution
  • Fiona Robertson Successfully Appeals Firearm Sentence
  • 2 Hare Court Members Shortlisted in Chambers Bar Awards 2018
  • Nikita McNeill appears in Article 2 Inquest following A&E death
  • Brendan Kelly QC Secures Acquittal in ‘Pack’ Murder
  • Brian O’Neill QC and Christopher Ware Secure Acquittal in Gangland Murder
  • Jonathan Rees QC & Will Martin Successfully Prosecute Delroy Forrester for Unlawful Killing of his 11 Year Old Great-Niece
  • Double Murderer Convicted
  • Narita Bahra Secures Acquittal for Javon Roach in Jeweller Murder
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Secures Acquittal in Victim Right to Review Case
  • Gudrun Young Successfully Defends GP Charged with 7 Counts of Sexual Assault
  • IICSA: Nikita McNeill Appears in Hearing into the Offending of Former Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball
  • Martin Hicks QC Successfully Defends GP Accused of Defrauding 96 year old French Resistance Heroine
  • Suspended Sentence for Perverting the Course of Justice
  • Tobacco and Personal Use: The Assessment and Penalty
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Secures Acquittal in First Prosecution of a Far Right Organisation Since World War II
  • Gavin Irwin successfully represents Emergency Medicine Registrar at the Inquest of a 33 year old woman who died from a rare form of infection
  • Paul Renteurs Acts for The FA in Regulatory Proceedings Brought Against Ex West Ham Recruitment Director Tony Henry Over Comments Regarding African Players
  • Alex Tampakopoulos Represents the Family of a Challenger 2 Tank Commander, One of Two Crewmen Killed During a Live Firing Shoot at Castlemartin
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures Sympathetic Sentence for 63 yr Old Who Killed Her Father and Buried Him in Her Garden After Lifetime of Abuse
  • Gavin Irwin Averts Closure of School after Discovery of Weapons and £400,000 Cash
  • Narita Bahra appears on BBC Radio 4 to discuss Disclosure Failings
  • Largest ever privately prosecuted fraud
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC achieves settlement for UN Whistleblower after 15 year battle
  • HMRC Crack Down on VAT Evasion Offences
  • Naeem Mian QC represents man charged with encouraging acts of terrorism against Royal Family
  • Belhaj Litigation: UK Apologises over Libyan Dissident Treatment
  • Disclosure failings result in collapse of a multi million pound evasion of excise duty
  • Naeem Mian QC Secures Acquittal of 19 Year Old Boy for Murder
  • Acid Attacker Cleared of Murdering Nurse
  • Former Gurkha Lorry Driver Spared Jail After Fatally Knocking into Lord Taylor of Blackburn
  • Strong Warning Given as Judge Suspends Sentence for Juror Research
  • Andrew Colman Successfully Vindicates Internationally Renowned Consultant Surgeon
  • Christopher Coltart QC Appointed as a Sports Arbitrator with Sport Resolutions Ltd
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Appointed as one of three new Disciplinary Tribunal Chairs by the ICAEW
  • Christopher Coltart QC is instructed to represent Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the centre of the Facebook data harvesting row
  • Brendan Kelly QC Successfully Represents International Rugby Player Paddy Jackson
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Michael Rawlinson
  • Naeem Mian QC Secures Conditional Caution for Youth Charged with Terrorism Offences
  • Laura Stephenson successfully Appeals against the Extradition of a Mother accused of grievous bodily harm in Hungary
  • Tax Spring Newsletter
  • Nikita McNeill appears in the public hearings for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
  • Gavin Irwin Represents Principal Conspirator in £37m ‘Copy-cat Website’ Fraud
  • Narita Bahra’s client cleared of Rape weeks after Sexual Assault Acquittal
  • Brian O’Neill QC and Sarah Przybylska win costs hearing following successful defence of Private Prosecution
  • Tom Day represents national company acquitted of Health & Safety Offence
  • Counterfeit Airbags Prosecution under the Trade Marks Act 1994
  • Inquest finds “Gross Failings” Contributed to Avoidable Death from Constipation
  • Peter Gray QC Successfully Represents Chevron North Sea Ltd in HM Inspector of Health & Safety v Chevron North Sea Ltd.
  • Naeem Mian QC secures acquittal of man charged with planning a Bombing Campaign on the UK Mainland
  • Jim Buchanan Appears for the London Borough of Croydon (LBC) for Breach of Section 2 HSWA
  • Finsbury Park Attacker Darren Osborne Sentenced to Life with a Minimum Term of 43 Years
  • HHJ Perrins slams CPS for wholesale disclosure failings as Narita Bahra and Fiona Robertson’s client walks free
  • Tom Day Appears for ex Council Chairman charged with 12 Fire Safety Breaches Following Rutland Street Fire
  • Crime Team Winter Newsletter
  • Narita Bahra’s client Valentin Krzyzyk cleared of Sexual Assault after Police fail to hand over vital CCTV evidence
  • Terrorism Cases: Where Sanctions Designations Apply in Tandem with Criminal Proceedings
  • Julia Faure Walker and Sarah Przybylska appointed Treasury Counsel Monitorees
  • Liam Allan Rape Trial Collapse
  • Romanian Extradition: Stasis Maintained
  • Sarah Przybylska and Lewis MacDonald prosecute boiler room Fraud targeted at elderly
  • GMC has Dropped its Appeal and JR against a Doctor’s Restoration to the Register
  • Will a gambler change Hong Kong Law?
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Jonathan Kinnear QC
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in Legal 500 UK Awards 2018
  • Dishonesty and the GMC: the first case after Ivey v Genting Casinos
  • Andrew Radcliffe QC Secures Acquittal in Op Amazon After 10 Month Trial
  • Howard Watkinson and Joshua Carey successfully represent HMRC in multi-million pound Appeal
  • 11 Convictions Upheld in Rolf Harris Appeal
  • Narita Bahra appears for Sky News discussing the UK Harvey Weinstein Allegations
  • Discrimination and the GMC – Michalak v GMC [2017] UKSC 71
  • The Proper Approach to Restoration Hearings
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC and Vivienne Tanchel Secure Acquittal of 18 Year Old Boy for Murder
  • 2 Hare Court Receives Record Rankings in Chambers & Partners UK 2018 Guide
  • Gosh! Where has Ghosh gone?
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Will Martin
  • Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering Bill Published
  • Quinn Hawkins instructed in ‘Serial Killer’ Providenciales Murder
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 2017
  • The Lammy Review: A Conversation
  • Deaconal investigation success for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC
  • Tax Newsflash
  • 3 members appear for the Rooney family in biggest ever prosecution of ‘slavery’ offences – Operation Pottery
  • Brendan Kelly QC represented Suzie Best in her application for a Horse Training Licence
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC’s Multi-Millionaire Client Acquitted of Multiple Historic Allegations of Rape
  • Harry Bentley Secures Acquittal for Alleged Fraudulent Headteacher who ‘raided school funds’
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Successfully Opposes Application to Quash Acquittal for 1984 Murder
  • Narita Bahra secures acquittal for Ex-Universal Music Media Mogul
  • Narita Bahra Discusses The NCA Intelligence-Sharing Scheme Blocking Sex Offenders Entering SE Asia on Sky News
  • Narita Bahra & Harry Bentley Represent Client Involved in Bedford Shooting
  • Narita Bahra leading Stephen Donelly acted for a client who was charged with an array of Money Laundering, Fraud, supply of class A drugs and cultivation of class B drugs offences
  • Fiona Robertson’s Playwright Client Acquitted of Groping Young Actress
  • CAS Upholds Life Bans for Top Russian Athletics Officials: Jonathan Laidlaw QC Acts for IAAF
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in Chambers UK 2017 Bar Awards
  • His Honour Judge Julian Nicholas Goose QC Appointed Justice of the High Court
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures Acquittal of Notorious Gangland Murder
  • Train driver cleared of endangering passenger safety on a railway
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes 2 New Tenants
  • Fiona Robertson’s client found not guilty on all historic sex charges
  • Christopher Geering’s Client Acquitted and Awarded Record Costs Against the ACCA
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC secures costs against CPS following a failed prosecution under the Victim Right to Review scheme
  • Stalking Victims Being Put at Risk by Police Failings – Christopher Ware Instructed by HMIC to Advise on Harassment and Stalking Report
  • Fiona Robertson’s client acquitted of all historic rape charges
  • Ben Rich represents Isle of Wight Council in the successful prosecution of term-time holiday dad, Jonathan Platt
  • Tom Day secures licence for Cliff Richard concert
  • Narita Bahra represents the The Sikh Channel at Office of Communications Regulatory Tribunal
  • Nicholas Hall & Tom Day represent family of man murdered by mentally ill neighbour previously deemed as ‘no immediate risk’
  • Mark Graffius and Nikita McNeill defend in £46million wine fraud
  • James Buchanan secures acquittal of excavator driver on charges of manslaughter by gross negligence, perverting the course of justice and Section 2 HSWA.
  • Narita Bahra defends in a £78 Million Money Laundering Conspiracy
  • Tyrone Belger and Lewis MacDonald represent defendant accused of defrauding the Metropolitan Police
  • Tube Bomb Plotter Damon Smith Sentenced to 15 Years
  • London Legal Walk 2017
  • Narita Bahra Secures Acquittal for a Holistic Healer Charged with Sexual Offences
  • GMC v Dr X – Dishonesty Does Not Automatically Require A Sanction
  • Tom Day represents GP following fire that killed pensioner
  • SFO v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd: internal investigations under threat
  • Christopher Ware acts for the FA in Anti-Doping case
  • Narita Bahra Defends Client in Multi Million Pound Drugs Conspiracy
  • Peter Lownds in Successful Sentencing Appeal for ‘Cocaine Pilot’
  • Peter Lownds Represents Senior Banker in $3.5M Banking Corruption Case
  • Jonathan Rees QC prosecutes London Tube bomb accused Damon Smith
  • Narita Bahra acts for Barclays Banker in UK’s biggest Cyber Fraud Operation Kadenza
  • Narita Bahra and Joshua Carey represent Director in European Union Match Funding Conspiracy to Defraud in excess of £1million
  • Christopher Coltart QC acts for the FA in disciplinary proceedings brought against Joey Barton for betting on football matches
  • Successful prosecution of Slovakian people trafficking ring by Sarah Przybylska
  • Queensbury Legal Charity Boxing 2017 – Gallery
  • Nikita McNeill presents case against headteacher dismissed from London school for altering pupils’ exam papers
  • David Whittaker represents building company cleared of charges under Health & Safety Legislation Following a “Work at Height” Death
  • Michael Hayton QC represents Essar Oil Limited following high risk explosion
  • Queensbury Legal 2017
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC assigned Vice-Chair for CBA Mentoring Scheme
  • Businessmen cleared in Nationwide Heroin Conspiracy
  • Deprivation of Liberty – the saga continues
  • Praise for Sallie Bennett–Jenkins QC from Director of Refuge, Sandra Horley CBE
  • Marios Lambis successfully defends doctor accused of fraud
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC secures non custodial sentence for indecent images
  • Chris Gillespie considers the Sentencing Council’s Definitive Guideline on Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty Plea
  • David Whittaker Successfully Defends Partner of TOWIE Star in Drug Prosecution
  • Leon Kazakos Successfully Represents Police Officer
  • Lewis MacDonald presents case against Carrie-Anne Nash over death of 10-year-old
  • Nikita McNeill successfully represents nurse accused of causing or contributing to death of elderly patient
  • Brian O’Neill QC successfully represents Rohan Ince
  • Joshua Carey successful in resisting Permission to Proceed in the High Court
  • When a Mistake is not Misconduct
  • Narita Bahra’s client cleared of a forty six count Indictment containing grooming, rape and sexual assault allegations
  • Successful prosecution of HBoS corruption trial by Brian O’Neill QC and Angus Bunyan
  • Chris Foulkes in largest UK deferred prosecution agreement
  • Joshua Carey appointed to the Attorney-General’s Civil C Panel
  • Orlando Pownall QC represents jailed city worker Ke Xu accused of “deliberately” refusing to surrender seized software
  • Peter Gray QC (Scotland) Joins 2 Hare Court
  • Joshua Carey represents train driver accused of endangering passenger
  • Alex Tampakopoulos Successfully Represents Property Development Company at Newton Hearing
  • Congratulations to Naeem Mian on his Queen’s Counsel Appointment
  • Tom Day Represents Independent Hospital at Inquest into the Death of a 77-year Old Man
  • Narita Bahra instructed in Multi-Million Pound Tax and Duty Evasion Fraud.
  • Serial Killer Stephen Port Sentenced to Life Imprisonment For Murdering Four Men
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC Appears Before the British Horseracing Authority
  • Naeem Mian wins Criminal Lawyer of the Year Award 2016
  • Ben Rich Defends Nurse Accused of Falsifying Temperature Record of Colleague Who Got Ebola
  • Fiona Robertson’s Client Avoids Custody for his Part in Cannabis Ring
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC Appears for the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF)
  • Michael Hayton QC Represents Multi National Chemical Company in Fatality Prosecution
  • Michael Hayton QC elected Leader of the Northern Circuit
  • Tom Day Represents National Private Security Company
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked in Chambers & Partners UK 2017 Guide
  • 2 Hare Court Awarded Professional Discipline Set of the Year 2016 by Chambers UK
  • 2 Hare Court Awarded Crime Set of the Year in Legal 500 UK 2017
  • Zubair Ahmad Called to The Bar of NI
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins & Harry Bentley Begin Trial for PC Semple Murder
  • David Howker QC
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in The Legal 500 UK 2017 Awards
  • Vivienne Tanchel Defends GP in the Inquest of the Death of Ivy Atkin
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Christopher Ware Successfully Defend in a Private Prosecution
  • Knife-Wielding Pensioner acquitted
  • Congratulations to our new tenants following successful pupillages
  • Chris Gillespie Represents Corporate Client at Zane Gbangbola Inquest
  • Brian O’Neill QC and Angus Bunyan Prosecute Bank Corruption Trial at Southwark CC
  • Christopher Ware Represents a Company Director on a Conspiracy Allegation
  • Brian O’Neill QC prosecutes on case of fraud and corruption at HBOS
  • David Whittaker acts for care-home company prosecuted under new regulations following death of patient
  • Narita Bahra Acts for Defendant Involved in £113 Million Money Laundering Cyber Scam
  • David Whittaker, Craig Ferguson & Christopher Gillespie Conduct a Mock Health & Safety Trial
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in Chambers UK Bar Awards
  • Fiona Robertson Secures Acquittal For Client Charged With GBH After Nightclub Brawl
  • Christopher Ware Acts For ACCA Against An Accountant Convicted In £2.6m Fraud
  • David Howker QC 1959-2016
  • Non Custodial Sentence for Nurse Convicted of Fraud
  • Narita Represents Ring Leader in Conspiracy to Supply Firearms
  • Tom Day Secures Licence for Bryan Adams Performance at the Betley Concerts
  • Narita Represents High Profile Solicitor
  • Defendants accused of cheating Her Majesty’s customs of £500,000 avoid immediate custodial sentence
  • Naeem Mian Makes Closing Submissions on Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures case
  • Naeem Mian and Robert Dacre Secure Acquittal in Terrorism Trial
  • Jonathan Rees QC Prosecutes Optometrist Honey Rose found Guilty of Manslaughter by Gross Negligence
  • Commercial Scale Cannabis Factory Bust
  • Tom Day represents a GP in relation to the death of a young woman who suffered from anorexia nervosa
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Craig Ferguson represent first company to be sentenced for Corporate Manslaughter since the new Definitive Guideline came into force
  • Narita secures acquittal for client charged with Money Laundering in excess of £500,000
  • Success for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins in a disclosure battle with CPS in Victims Right to Review case together with an apology from the CPS for her client
  • Christopher Geering Successfully Represents Doctor Charged with Sexually Assaulting Colleague
  • Scott Ivill’s Client Cleared of 11 Separate Allegations including alleged Acts and/or Omissions that Contributed Towards a Patient’s Death
  • Rights of the Victim v the Defendant: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?
  • Jonathan Rees QC Prosecutes Attacker Found Guilty of Attempted Murder after ISIS-inspired Leytonstone Tube Attack.
  • Richard Huckle Given 22 Life Sentences
  • Angus Bunyan Prosecutes Defence Firm Directors Who Bribed US Businessman to Land a £5m Military Supply Deal
  • Brian O’Neill QC prosecutes ‘Britain’s worst ever paedophile’
  • Pre-Trial Disclosure Issues in Claim Subjected to Closed Material Procedure Direction
  • Brian O’Neill QC Prosecutes Two Teenagers for Knife Murder
  • Chris Gillespie successfully challenges production order for medical records
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC secures rehearing before British Horseracing Authority
  • Michael Hayton QC successfully represented Premier League footballer in his appeal against a curfew order
  • Oliver Glasgow QC & Sarah Przybylska make closing submissions on behalf of the Jersey Law Officers’ Department at the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry
  • Martin Heslop QC secures acquittals for client with allegations of historic rape and sexual violence
  • David Howker QC represents mentally ill ‘Road Rage’ man accused of murder
  • Marios Lambis defends doctor convicted of prolonged fraud against his employing NHS hospital
  • Craig Ferguson defends doctor cleared of manslaughter by gross negligence
  • Orlando Pownall QC and David Whittaker client acquitted of insider dealing
  • Special Immigration Appeals Commission finds refusal of British citizenship unfair
  • Verdicts in the Hillsborough Inquest
  • Fiona Robertson secures appeal against sentence 
  • Prosecution of man for murder of elderly neighbour
  • Narita Appears in Historic Child Grooming Case
  • Personal Assistant to James Bond producer acquitted of Fraud and Theft
  • Fiona Robertson’s Client Acquitted on Appeal of Rape
  • Transgender carer found guilty of murdering her MS-Suffering father
  • Martin Heslop QC secures acquittal of 20 year old in gang related South London stabbing
  • 2 Hare Court are pleased to announce the arrival of Mark Graffius
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC represents trainer before British Horseracing Authority
  • Killer of unborn child is jailed for life
  • Orlando Pownall QC and Gudrun Young defend in Adam Johnson trial
  • Christopher Ware acts for the FA against three players for breaching FA conduct rules
  • Vivienne Tanchel’s client acquitted in LIBOR broker trial
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC is listed as one of Britain’s 500 most influential individuals
  • Orlando Pownall QC and David Whittaker commence Operation Tabernula
  • Case of R v Michael Misick & 8 Others
  • Congratulations to Oliver Glasgow on his QC appointment
  • Leon Kazakos represents the first defendant in the case of Sebastiano Magnanini
  • Jonathan Rees QC secures convictions in child destruction case
  • Marios Lambis secures an acquittal for a doctor
  • Further finding of unacceptable professional conduct in Trojan Horse case
  • Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley Secure an Acquittal in the UK Revenge Attack Against the Followers of those who Burnt the Guru Granth Sahib in India
  • Brendan Kelly QC secures acquittal for a solicitor charged with Perverting the Course of Justice
  • Orlando Pownall QC and Jonathan Laidlaw QC successfully defend in Cairns Trial
  • Findings of misconduct in first Birmingham Schools Trojan Horse case
  • Oliver Glasgow appointed Senior Treasury Counsel
  • 2 Hare Court is an “exceptionally good set” that is home to “advocates of outstanding quality”
  • Stephen Brassington wins Chambers UK 2015 Professional Discipline award
  • Tom Day represents the FA over Arsenal’s breach of football agents regulations
  • Should Cartel Activity be a Criminal Offence in Hong Kong?
  • “Trojan Horse” Cases: 2 Hare Court Team Commence the First NCTL Hearings
  • Orlando Pownall QC & Jonathan Laidlaw QC Defend in Cairns Trial
  • 2 Hare Court are pleased to announce the arrival of Michael Hayton QC
  • Tesco Cash for Crash Insurance Fraud Conspiracy
  • 2 Hare Court nominated in 3 categories for the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2015
  • 2 Hare Court ranked top 5 for quasi-criminal Barrister rankings in the Legal 500 2015
  • Orlando Pownall QC and Zubair Ahmad successfully defend murder suspect at the Central Criminal Court
  • Orlando Pownall QC Represents Former Cricket Captain Accused of Perjury & Perverting the Course of Justice
  • Narita Bahra acts for client in Aylesbury Child Sex Ring Trial
  • Operation Cotton – Allegation of Conspiracy to Defraud
  • 2 Hare Court are shortlisted for ‘Chambers of the Year’ – Legal Awards 2015
  • Trevor Gibbon Fatally Stabs Neighbour in Two-Year Noise Row Revenge
  • Stage 1 Large Casino Licence Granted for Aspers in Southampton Royal Pier Development
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures Acquittals in Alleged Multi-Million Pound Class A Drug Smuggling Conspiracy
  • New GDC PCC & ISG Guidance
  • Teenager Charged with Acts of Terrorism and ‘Terror Grooming’
  • Christopher Geering successfully appeals the GMC’s decision to erase a doctor from the register
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    • SFC fine EFG Bank AG
    • Call for consistency across Coronial areas
    • Brexit Select Committee Publishes Sanctions Report
    • Publication of The Fourth Annual Chief Coroner’s Report for 2016 to 2017
    • What is a “Criminal Cause or Matter” and why does it matter?
    • As a $31m Crypto-Currency Heist is Revealed, is there a Wave of Crypto-Crime Litigation on the Horizon?
    • Nutanix – an Erosion of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination?
    • Bishop’s Review of Hillsborough Families’ Experiences Calls for Change Including Publicly Funded Legal Representation for Bereaved Families at Inquests
    • Hong Kong: Asia’s FinTech Hub
    • Regulatory Crime Newsletter
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    • Financial Sanctions: A Minefield for Business
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• Category: Newsflash
  • Hillingdon Underground Station killers sentenced at Old Bailey
  • Now who is lacking insight?
  • Professional Standards Authority v HCPC and Wood [2019] EWHC 2819 (Admin) – Charging motivation and lies in investigation
  • Professional Discipline Summer Newsletter
  • Innocent Agents – Liable for Unpaid Duty but not Penalties?
  • Combatting a Culture of Adjournments?
  • Court of Appeal’s “Very Regrettable” Forced Hand Following Indictment Errors in Historic Sex Trial
  • R v Tas [2018] EWCA Crim 2603: manslaughter and joint enterprise post-Jogee
  • Litigation Privilege Restored by Court of Appeal in ENRC v SFO
  • No Presumption of Erasure: Bawa-Garba v GMC [2018] EWCA Civ 1879
  • Civil Standard for Suicides: R (Maughan) v HM Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2018] EWHC 1955 (Admin) (Leggatt LJ, Nicol J)
  • Newsflash: Sentencing Guidelines for Manslaughter Introduced
  • The Challenges of Challenging the Coroner: R (Parkinson) v HM Senior Coroner for Kent, Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust & Sameer Hijazi [2018] EWHC 1501 (Admin)
  • The Relevance of Retirement? General Optical Council v Clarke [2018] EWCA Civ 1463
  • Sentencing company Directors
  • The Duty of Candour: “its importance cannot be overstated”
  • Defending Directors: Hidden Gems in the Companies Act 2006
  • When is a “Reasonable Excuse” Reasonable?
  • Fresh OFSI Guidance for Importers and Exporters & Significant Iran Sanctions Developments
  • USA Rachets up Russia Sanctions – Will the UK follow?
  • Soft Drinks – Hard Times
  • A Money Laundering Directive Too Far?
  • FCA Enforcement Policy – Consultation Unveiled
  • Lack of integrity: A Useful Shorthand
  • When is an Expert not an Expert?

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Training & Knowledge

• Government Rejects Treasury Committee's Recommendation That A Single Law Enforcement Agency Tackle Economic Crime
• The Online Safety Bill
• The Economic Crime Act 2022…A Headache For The Kleptocrats?...
• The rejected defence: a comprehensive overview Sawati v General Medical Council [2022] EWHC 283 (Admin)
• How many misconduct charges does it take to make serious misconduct? Ahmedsowida v GMC [2021] EWHC 3466 (Admin)
• Freedom of expression and the IOT: White v GMC [2021] EWHC 3286 (Admin)
• Article 2 and children in care: R (Boyce) v HM Senior Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool [2022] EWHC 107 (Admin) (21 January 2022)
• Directing the jury: R (Ginn) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner London [2022] EWHC 28 (Admin)
• “He’s checking his list; he’s checking it twice.…”
• Greenwashing – a Minute to Midnight?
• Government Responds to Coroner Service Inquiry Report: what changes to the inquest process can we expect?
• Creeping unfairness and remote hearings at the General Dental Council
• Complainant Bad Character in Disciplinary Proceedings
• An end to non-professional professional misconduct?
• Joy Dove v HM Assistant Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool [2021] EWHC 2511 (Admin)
• Maintaining High Professional Standards: Procedural fairness and categorisation
• Testosterone Guinea Pigs and lex mitior - Salazar v USADA
• The Pandora Papers – Leaks, Loopholes and Lethargy
• From the ODT to OMG: Reaction to and an analysis of the recent takeover of Newcastle United FC
• R v Morahan [2021] EWHC 1603 (Admin) - Article 2 in Inquests: Revisited, Restated and Clearly Explained
• The Building Safety Bill: A Sea Change
• The Building Safety Bill and Fire Safety
• The Health and Safety Executive, Workplace Safety and our Return to the “Old” Normal
• Work Injuries and Ill-Health: Notable Statistics and Trends
• Private Prosecutions and the Need for Compelling Reasons Not to Issue a Summons
• Summonses & Settlements: A Road Map Through the Thicket
• [Dr] No risk of dissipation - Les Ambassadeurs Club Ltd v Yu
• New Sentencing Guidelines for unauthorised use of a trade mark by individuals and organisations
• Christopher Coltart QC considers the legal rulings made in the course of The FA v Daniel Sturridge
• Technology & Strategic Export Controls
• Court of Appeal warns advocates to take care where life sentences and determinate sentences are imposed at the same time – Narita Bahra QC & Stacy Stroud
• Cryptocurrency – As the CPS prepares for a surge in fraud, the FCA begins to regulate
• Gavin Irwin and Merry van Woodenberg explore recent developments in the field of financial and trade sanctions
• Deceptively simple - or simply deceptive? The dangers of over-complicating misconduct allegations – and over-simplifying reasons
• Denials, insight and sanction – the effect of denials on sanction
• Assessing credibility and the limits of demeanour – Khan v GMC [2021] EWHC 374 (Admin)
• Review or rehearing? Sastry & Okpara v GMC and the difference between s. 40 and s. 40A
• Factual findings made by the criminal court: Achina v General Pharmaceutical Council [2021] EWHC 415 (Admin)
• An expert free for all: Bux v GMC [2021] EWHC 762 (Admin)
• Are work related Covid 19 deaths going unreported?
• Sanctions for supporter disorder loom over the big six in the wake of the doomed European Super League project.
• The Court of Appeal restates a robust approach to secondary parties in homicide cases.
• ‘Big Tech Beware’
• SANCTIONS FOR RACIST ABUSE - Brian O'Neill QC and Paul Renteurs consider whether there is a role for the criminal law in stamping out racial abuse on the field of play.
• Fraud during the pandemic: might the government amend its Online Safety Bill?
• Cycling in turmoil?
• ‘We are what we do’: NatWest in the dock
• Costs – further implications in private prosecutions
• The competing rights of women in sport
• Insolvencies, Pensions and Prosecutions
• Remote hearings and dishonesty
• Conditional Discharges in regulatory proceedings
• When does inappropriate behaviour in the workplace amount to harassment?
• Interfering with the Tribunal’s discretion?
• Medical notes: a presumption of accuracy?
• The Identification Principle in the 21st Century - Chris Gillespie looks at the Law Commission's remit in its review of corporate criminal liability.
• Does Sport have a problem with Human Trafficking?
• Regulating the fast fashion industry: what does the future hold?
• The increased risks of work-related stress
• The Fatal Incident
• Developments in the Cannabis Regulatory Field
• 2020: The Year in Review
• Brexit Means Brexit? The Private Prosecution of Foreign Defendants in the Post Covid and Post Brexit World
• Private Prosecutions and the Public Interest
• Recent developments in costs
• Ivey and legal certainty in rate-rigging prosecutions
• Paul Renteurs considers whether new US anti-doping legislation is likely to lead to similar measures in the UK or elsewhere.
• R (on the application of Maughan) v. Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46
• DPA Update: Airline Services Limited
• Gavin Irwin reviews the recent surge in enforcement activity at the Financial Conduct Authority
• The Risks of Social Media in Sport
• POCA: A new future for the defendant's "benefit"
• Police officers and the use of force - are we really all missing the point?: R (Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Officer for Police Conduct [2020] EWCA Civ 1301
• A non-sexually motivated sexual assault?: GMC v Haris [2020] EWHC 2518 (Admin)
• The vexed question of Article 2: R (Peter Skelton and Elizabeth Skelton) v. The Senior Coroner for West Sussex and Others [2020] EWHC 2813 Admin
• A note of caution for sports agents, introducers and intermediaries: beware the implied “effective cause” term
• COVID-19 & Custody Time Limits: An Update
• R v Broughton Clarifying Causation in Gross Negligence Manslaughter
• Vigilante justice: is evidence obtained by ‘paedophile hunter’ groups admissible in criminal proceedings?
• Consent and fertility
• The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill
• The 2020 Disclosure Guidelines
• The Sentencing Code – Have we finally solved the Sentencing Jigsaw?
• Recent Proceeds of Crime Developments
• The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime and UK’s recent adoption of Magnitsky-type sanctions
• High Court gives timely reminder that demeanour is not everything: R (Dutta) v General Medical Council [2020] EWHC 1974 (Admin)
• UWOs and Serious Crime...Not Merely A Threat
• 2 Hare Court Sports Law Group: Athletics Round-Up
• 2 Hare Court Private Prosecution Newsflash
• 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Summer Newsletter
• HBOS: The final chapter?
• Sports' Books & Films: OUR TOP 10
• Reduction of mandatory suspensions for doping breaches: the strange case of Dr Johnson and the FA
• “New balls please”: Joe Marler takes the dark arts of rugby a step too far
• Doping and Arbitration in the time of Covid
• The importance of giving reasons
• The poison pen letter
• Safeguarding and extending time limits
• Replacing a Warning:
• When is strike-off all but automatic?
• Dishonesty re-visited
• What is a rare and exceptional circumstance?
• Why has there been a decline in fraud prosecutions?
• The Court of Appeal upholds the first Unexplained Wealth Order
• I’m frozen! The rise of the Magistrates’ Court freezing order
• Significant Judgment on Legal Advice Privilege Delivered by Court of Appeal in Civil Aviation Authority v R (on the application of Jet2.com Ltd) [2020] EWCA Civ 35
• Billions: Airbus and the future of DPA’s
• Anonymity Before Charge: Important Changes
• Football and Racism
• The strict test of the reasonable precautions defence where a prohibited substance is administered unintentionally
• WRU v Robert Howley – preserving the integrity of the game
• Breaches & Bungs
• To Infinity and beyond – the Upper Tribunal confirms that an underlying supply in order to claim input tax and that the principles in Teleos and Kittel are not the same.
• Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC") issue statement regarding disclosure and transparency
• The New SRA Standards and Regulations: a StaR is Born
• Corporate Transparency and Register Reform
• Investigating complex crime whilst restraining assets: ‘reasonable time’ v ‘practical realities’
• Corporate Intelligence: Strategic friend or foe?
• SFO Shuts Down Investigation into Libor Rigging
• Article 6 and compulsory production orders: Volaw Trust and Corporate Services Ltd and its Directors and others v The Office of the Comptroller of Taxes and another (Jersey)
• Serious Fraud Office v Serco Geografix Limited [2019] 7 WLUK 45
• No Go v Bojo
• Re Somaia and the Recovery of Costs in Enforcement Proceedings in the High Court
• Increasing Regulation of Private Prosecutions
• Investigatory Powers in Private Prosecutions: Hurdles and Opportunities
• Thakrar and the Ramifications for Private Prosecutors
• Unprecedented: Adverse Inferences in Regulatory Proceedings
• Court of Appeal Takes a Swipe at “Culture of Adjournment” Approach in Regulatory Proceedings
• A Tale of Two Leaks
• Ensuring the Reliability of Expert Witnesses in Criminal Cases
• SRA Developments in 2019
• Lacking Integrity - The Waters Re-Muddied in Adetoye v The Solicitors Regulation Authority
• Sastry v General Medical Council [2019] EWHC 390 (Admin)
• Blakely v GMC [2019] EWHC 905: Deny, Deny, Deny (But Try to Show Insight)
• Case Commentary: Maguire [2019] EWHC 1232 (Admin);
• R (Maughan) v Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2019] EWCA Civ 809:
• The Sentencing Council’s impact assessment shows an increase in fines imposed on individuals and organisations of all sizes following the introduction the Definitive Guideline on Sentencing on Health and Safety Offences, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety & Hygiene Offences
• Faltec Europe Ltd v Health and Safety Executive [2019] EWCA Crim 520
• Government Consultation on Legal Aid for Families at Inquests
• Guidance from the Court of Appeal in Sentencing Linked Organisations for Health & Safety Cases: R -v- NPS London Ltd [2019] EWCA Crim 228
• Andrew Left v Securities & Futures Commission & Market Misconduct Tribunal
• EL KAROUT and NMC, [2019] EWHC 28 (Admin)
• The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism v DPP
• Jurisdiction: Substantial Measures and Relevant Events
• The Man Who Wasn’t There: Private Prosecutions, Extradition and Interpol
• The Impact of Tactical Decisions on Parallel Proceedings
• Fingerprints and Forfeiture Without the Powers of the State
• Do I Have to Disclose Historic Convictions?
• Judging by Appearances
• Case Commentary: R v WINTERTON [2018] EWCA Crim 2435
• New Sentencing Guidelines for Manslaughter Offences Now in Force
• Challenging the Coroner: R (Parkinson) v HM Senior Coroner for Kent, Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust & Sameer Hijazi [2018] EWHC 1501 (Admin)
• Birmingham Pub Bombings - Coroner’s Decision on Scope Only Reviewable on Public Law Grounds
• What Can we Learn from the HSE Annual Statistics Report?
• Food Labelling in the Wake of the Death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse
• DOTAS: Houdini’s Escape?
• Karoulla t/a Brockley’s Rock: Revenue Battered on Disclosure
• The Bar Council 2018 Law Reform Essay Competition: Not a Silver Bullet… but a Bullet Nonetheless
• Cold Turkey? The Dangers of Withdrawal in the Tax Tribunal
• PML: Beware Agreements to Settle an Appeal
• Final Closing Speech
• Bolton Reaffirmed – Again
• Mental Health and “Exceptional Circumstances”
• Intentionally Misleading but not Dishonest
• No More ‘Manna Found on the Desert Floor’ for Insiders: The s. 271(3) Defence Revisited
• Extraterritorial Reach of Section 2 Notices
• Transparency and Overseas Ownership of UK Property The Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill
• Raychaudhuri v GMC: Ivey rules?
• Challenge To First Unexplained Wealth Order Fails In High Court
• Defending Private Prosecutions: Lessons To Be Learned
• Mixed & Ulterior Motives
• Disclosure In Private Prosecutions
• Who is the Private Prosecutor?
• Restraint, Confiscation and Compensation in Private Prosecutions
• Private Investigations
• Frozen Assets, Third Party Rights and Disclosure
• Achieving Sea-Change: Criminal Disclosure Failures
• The Duty to Report Foreign Misconduct Findings
• Without Notice, Without Merit: how far would you go for your client?
• Dr G Arunachalam v GMC [2018] EWHC 758 (Admin): Can a Doctor Escape Erasure for Repeated Sexual Misconduct?
• R (Lewin) v Financial Reporting Council and others [2018] EWHC 446: When can a Panel Criticise Those Outside the Profession?
• “If it’s not Written Down, it Didn’t Happen”
• New Guidance issued after Coroner’s ‘cab rank’ policy on burial quashed by the High Court in R (Adath Yisroel Burial Society) v Senior Coroner for Inner North London [2018]
• It Takes One to Quango- Sick to Death of Regulation in the Healthcare Sector?
• Reasonable Excuse for Non-Compliance with Self-Assessment (Perrin v HMRC)
• Hong Kong Newsflash: Trade Sanctions and Export Licensing
• Special Police Services and the Tractor Boys
• Financial Fair Play: Still All Bark and no Bite?
• Australian Ball-Tampering: Mob Justice or a Fair Cop?
• Consent and Society's Evolving Values Cannot Outweigh Public Protection
• The Golden Thread Survives Under the Modern Slavery Act
• Sentencing Guideline: Offensive Weapons and Bladed Articles
• Overarching Principles: Domestic Abuse
• Sentencing Guideline: Terrorism Offences
• An Update on the Enforcement Function of the Securities and Futures Commission
• Major Review of Meat Processing in the UK Launched by the FSA
• Enforcement Notices Post Chevron
• An Analysis of the Sentencing Process in HSE v Martin Baker Aircraft Ltd
• Impact of a death on fines for Health and Safety Offences [Whirlpool UK Appliances Ltd v R (Upon the prosecution of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Health and Safety) [2017] EWCA Crim 2186]
• Regulation 29(2)(A) VAT Rules 1995 ... The True Ambit of Discretion?
• I-AHHHH 35: There's Trouble Ahead
• Public Interest Immunity and the Tax Tribunal
• Disclosure and Fairness in Tax Appeals
• Remorse, Insight and Continued Denial – the Difficulty of Moving on after Sanction. Yusuff v General Medical Council [2018] EWHC 13 (Admin)
• PSA v NMC and X [2018] EWHC 70 (Admin)
• R (Clinton) v General Medical Council [2017] EWHC 3304 (Admin)
• Bye-bye Bijl
• Racial Discrimination by a Regulator: O’Connor v Bar Standards Board, 2017
• The Agreement in the Fury Case and the Vexed Question of the Burden and Standard of Proof for Athletes
• Nitrous Oxide - No Laughing Matter
• The Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) and Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Guidebook for Advocates on the Use of Statistical Evidence in Court
• Section 73 of SOCPA - What Happens When Terms Are Not Met?
• ‘Greater Threats to Society’ - The New Draft Guidelines for Terrorism Offences
• Driving Offences Which Cause Serious Injury or Death
• Self-defence and the Householder – Disproportionate Force May be Unreasonable Even in Defence of the Home
• HMICFRS Report Criticises Response to Modern Day Slavery
• Suspension or erasure? High Court rules in professional misconduct case (General Medical Council v Stone)
• Cross-examining expert witnesses; A Masterclass
• Inquests and Public Inquiries: Differences in Scope
• A view on the Sentencing Council’s Draft Guidelines for the Offence of Manslaughter in the Health & Safety Context
• Reasonable foreseeability after R v Rose
• “Exercising Restraint?”
• Newcastle United Football Club and Others v HMRC: A Backwards Step in Relation to Search Warrants?
• The Right to Silence is Not Yet Silent
• The SFO Survives the Latest Political Reshuffle
• Financial Sanctions: A Minefield for Business
• GMC v Theodoropoulos [2017]EWHC 1984(Admin)
• The Impact of an Interim Order on Sanction
• General Medical Council v The Queen (on the application of Dr Iheanyi Chidi Nwachuku) [2017] EWHC 2085 (Admin)
• General Medical Council v Jagjivan & PSA [2017] EWHC 1247 (Admin)
• Doherty v NMC [2017] EWCA Civ 1344
• Differentiating Dishonesty
• Legislative Overhaul for the NMC: Consolidation and Expansion
• The Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme: Trading pending appeal
• Is Dishonesty the Best Policy?
• R (on the application of Hely-Hutchinson) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2017] EWCA Civ 1075
• Comply or Fail
• A Question of Jurisdiction or Questionable Jurisdiction?
• Coming Soon, A New Data Protection Act for the United Kingdom
• Doli Incapax and Historic Sexual Offending
• Positive developments in third party funding of arbitrations
• Competition matters exclusively within the jurisdiction of the Competition Tribunal
• Coutts Hong Kong fined by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority
• Thefaut v Johnston [2017] EWHC 497:
• Lack of integrity in disciplinary proceedings: two recent conflicting authorities
• General Medical Council v Chopra [2017] EWHC 819 (Admin)
• A Scottish twist to Enemuwe
• When is “misconduct” a sanction?
• Craig v Farriers’ Registration Council [2017] EWHC 707 (Admin)
• The regulation of private lives
• Day v Health Education England [2017] EWCA Civ 329
• General Medical Council v Banerjee: ‘Lesson in not leaving it too late’
• General Optical Council v Clarke [2017] EWHC 521 (Admin): Retirement reduces risk to the public
• Representation in section 2 CJA 1987 interviews
• Conclusion of the Hong Kong anti-money laundering consultation confirms commitment to extending enforcement 
• The New Guideline on Guilty Pleas: A Potential Source of Conflict Between Client and Adviser? 
• The HSE announces it is to Consult on Fee for Intervention Scheme Dispute Process
• The Tunisia Inquests
• Health & Safety Sentencing Guidelines - One Year on
• Down on the Farm
• Identification by DNA on moveable objects
• The Policing and Crime Act 2017
• R v Johnson: Smuggling into Prison
• When Politicians Meddle...
• The Draft 2017 Money Laundering Regulations
• FCA v. Macris: Who is identified in FCA investigation notices?
• The Cyber Threat to UK Business
• Deferred Prosecution Agreements - A Review
• Costs in Private Prosecutions
• What constitutes cheat? The Ivey Case
• The End of the ‘Directing Mind’ - Corporate Liability for Economic Crime
• Driving to Distraction
• Hong Kong’s FCA Hand Shake
• Article 4 of the Bill of Rights – slavery and servitude
• ‘America First’ and the potential implications for Hong Kong and the wider world
• HKSAR v Luk Kin Peter Joseph and another – an analysis
• Judicial interventions during a trial – the Dayaram appeal
• No Wrong Turn in Hong Kong – an analysis of the Chan Kam Shing decision
• Will Hong Kong Revisit the offence of misconduct in public office by legislation in 2017?
• Unpicking Newton Hearings in Health and Safety Prosecutions
• Judgment of the High Court clarifies the extent of the SFC’s duty of disclosure
• Orlando Pownall QC represents jailed city worker Ke Xu accused of "deliberately" refusing to surrender seized software worth millions of pounds
• Defending Private Prosecutions
• Proving Propensity via Allegations of Bad Character
• Checklist for Out of Time Appeals on Jogee Grounds
• Confiscation Update - Piercing the Corporate Veil
• The Independent Review of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Handling of Non-Recent Sexual Offence Investigations Alleged Against Persons of Public Prominence
• The Rights of the Victim v the Defendant: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?
• Rethinking the Enforcement Function of the SFC
• The ‘Fraud Exception’ in Summary Judgment Applications: Zimmer, Universal and Arrow ECS Norway
• Private Prosecutions
• HKSAR v Deborah Annells: Prolific Offending and Regulatory Shortcomings
• Turning Financiers into Launderers: What do They Need to Know
• Insider Dealing - A Tightening of the Noose
• Successfully Resisting an Interim Order Extension
• R (SSP Health Ltd) v Care Quality Commission
• Post-Montgomery Consent Guidance for Surgeons – Information Must be Tailored to the Needs of the Individual Patient
• Responding to a Tragedy
• Squier v GMC
• Hindmarch v NMC
• Data Protection and Regulation
•  Control of Premises, Section 4 HSWA
• Credit For Guilty Plea: An Update
• Setting Fines in Uncertain Times: The Corporate Identity Crisis
• Alton Towers and the Application of the Health and Safety Sentencing Guidelines
• R v Johnson and Others - Joint Enterprise After Jogee
• Strengthening Tax Avoidance Sanctions and Deterrents
• Are Deferred Prosecution Agreements Company Friends or Foe?
• Political Corruption in the Turks & Caicos Islands and Legal Professional Privilege in Office
• New Anti-VAT Fraud Measures: Joint and Several Liability Revisited
• Business Needs to up its Game as Cyber-Attacks Are Here to Stay
• Developments in Deferred Prosecution Agreements
• Do Tom Hayes’ confiscation proceedings reveal a softening approach towards defendants by the Courts?
• PSA v GMC and Igwilo [2016] EWHC 524 (Admin)
• A New Approach to Expert Evidence?
• R (on the application of Sheila Adam) v the General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 3378: separating the ‘managerial’ from the ‘clinical’
• Death in State Detention?
• Changes to Dental Regulation: what does the future hold?
• O v NMC [2015] EWHC 2949
• Changes at the GMC: What you need to know
• The GMC's New Sanctions Guidance: more detail but no improvement
• Changes to the Criminal Procedure Rules
• Condemnation – The Harsh Reality
• The CMA in 2016: sights set by senior lawyer
• EU Commission's Action Plan on Terrorist Financing: a further step up in the Labyrinth
• Information Commissioner seeks to allay business fears on data transfers to the US
• An update on 'R v R'
• Corporate Prosecutions
• Principle Trumps the “Reality of the Matter” in Confiscation Appeal
• Money Laundering & Exchange Controls
• Is this the end of policy driven decisions?
• Sentencing for Robbery
• Disclosure in Document Heavy Cases & Abuse of Process
• On 21 December 2015, the Court of Appeal upheld Tom Hayes’ conviction, but reduced his sentence from 14 to 11 years
• Deferred Prosecution Agreements
• The Unlawful Acquisition of Cultural Property in Europe and its Restitution
• Behind the headlines: Seeking the truth behind sex grooming cases
• Leveson’s illiberal legacy?
• The New Criminal Procedure Rules: amendments of substance or form?
• Prosecution bad character argument leaves an unpleasant smell
• Sentencing Council Guidelines for Offences of Theft
• Feeling Trapped? Shall I stay or shall I go now?
• They Think It's All Over…It Is Now. Or is it? Terminating Rulings In The Crown Court
• Religion, Tolerance & Freedom - What Private Views Can A Teacher Express?
• Will Proposed Pharmacy Law Changes Help The Medicine Go Down?
• New Guidance From The GDC - Insight, Candour And A Whole Lot More
• New Evidence On Appeal - A More Relaxed Approach?
• Dishonesty After Kirschner: Is the Ghosh Test on its way out?
• The Fair And Effective Markets Review: Recommendations For Further Legislative And Regulatory Change
• Disclosure Failure: The Court Of Appeal Make It Plain That Compliance With CPR Is Critical
• Paying For The Privilege?
• The Truth And Nothing But The Truth – The CMA And Online Reviews
• The Offside Trap: FIFA Scandal Underlines Importance of New EU Money Laundering Directive
• Practice: Obtaining And Using An Intermediary
• Character: The Good, The Bad And The Somewhere In-between
• In The Hands Of The Jury
• Operation Elveden: A Sting In The Tail?
• What Is The British Bill Of Rights And Will There Be One?
• The Impact Of The Recent Case Of Manning On The Page Count Battle
• Confiscation Regime Toughened Up
• Confiscation Regime - Case Update
• Exceptional Inquest Funding Left To Incoming Government
• Death At Work: Christopher Gillespie Reflects On The Lessons Of A Recent Case
• How Safe A Haven Is The United Kingdom?
• The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015
• The Court Of Appeal Threatens More Loss Of Time Orders For Hopeless Appeals
• Judge Alone Trials: Time For Change?
• Proposed Reforms To Pre-Charge Police Bail
• Say You Are Sorry, And Mean It - The Role Of Apologies In The New GMC Indicative Sanctions Guidance
• Female Genital Mutilation: The First Prosecution And The Way Ahead
• R v National College For Teaching And Leadership (2014) EWHC 4351 (admin)
• The Morecambe Bay Report
• The Use Of Court Judgments In Professional Disciplinary Proceedings: R v General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 299 (Admin)
• A Question Of Motive?
• Penny Ann Lavis v Nursing & Midwifery Council (2014) EWHC 4083 (Admin)
• Supreme Court Decision In Eastenders / First Stop Wholesale v HMRC
• Phillip Ivey v Genting Casinos UK Limited
• R v Evans & Others
• POCA Update
• Life In The City: Another Day, Another Scandal
• European Brand Trading (EBT) v Commissioners of HRMC (2014) UK UT0026 (TCC)
• Developments In The Investigation And Prosecution Of Cartel Offences
• Determined deterrence: What next?
• Confiscation orders: A lesson for prosecutors
• A bitter pill to swallow: The GSK bribery investigation
• Widening the scope of corporate criminal liability: A new offence of failure to report economic crime
• Trial by jury, time to think again?
• Regulating foreign exchange markets: The financial stability board's latest report
• Wasted costs orders against prosecuting bodies: Some good news for privately paying defendants
• Criminal sanctions for market abuse to be expanded
• The proceeds of crime act 2002: Is it fit for purpose?
• Regulation regulation regulation: The new gold standard?
• The FCA investigates additional benchmarks
• Court of appeal rules that financial ombudsman service awards are binding on consumers
• Further arrests by SFO in LIBOR manipulation investigation
• SFO seeks a further £19m on top of £32m budget to fund its operations
• Date confirmed for the introduction of deferred prosecution agreements
• The financial ombudsman service: Growing in presence and not to be overlooked
• Prosecuting bankers under the banking reform act 2013: Political puff or criminal clout?

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  • Sophia Dower’s client given suspended sentence in case of Causing Death by Dangerous Driving
  • Beckwith v SRA – Private lives restored?
  • Narita Bahra QC instructed to defend in a Drill Rap Murder
  • Women In Criminal Law Members Notification
  • Gavin Irwin explores the new criminal offences in the National Security and Investment Bill currently before parliament
  • 2 Hare Court Awarded Crime Set of the Year 2020 by Chambers UK
  • David Whittaker QC and Harry Bentley appear in final Operation Leopard trial
  • 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Autumn Newsletter
  • Nneka Akudolu secures unanimous convictions in three consecutive rape trials
  • Mark Graffius QC and Fiona Robertson secure Not Guilty verdict in Lockdown murder
  • Announcement
  • Chambers & Partners UK 2021 Rankings Released
  • Leon Kazakos QC & Rebecca Erkan-Bax’s client acquitted of murder, attempted murder and wounding with intent
  • Gudrun Young successfully represents former Blue Peter presenter and TV celebrity John Leslie
  • Mirchandani – some good news for Private Prosecutors
  • Justice Select Committee Report Published – Safeguards in Private Prosecutions
  • Zubair Ahmad QC secures an acquittal at Leeds Crown Court for a 20 year old female charged with Murder and Conspiracy to Rob
  • Michael Rawlinson successfully defends South Yorkshire Police Constable at gross misconduct hearing
  • 2 Hare Court are looking forward to exhibiting at the Bar Council’s Pupillage Fair 2020
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 UK 2021
  • Narita Bahra QC wins the AWA Awards 2020 Professions Category
  • 2 Hare Court shortlisted in 2 Categories for The 2020 Chambers Bar Awards
  • Boohoo publishes the Levitt QC Independent Review
  • Marios Lambis presents to ARDL ‘The Legality of Virtual Hearings’ – Thursday 24th September at 6pm
  • Narita Bahra QC and Harry Bentley instructed to defend in Decapitation Murder at the Central Criminal Court
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Christopher Gillespie appear at Manchester Arena Inquiry
  • Narita Bahra QC and Harry Bentley secure acquittals for defendant dubbed “The Master Mind” in three multi handed drugs conspiracies involving encrypted telephones.
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Kate Blackwell QC
  • Mark Graffius QC and Sophia Dower secure a Not Guilty verdict in historic murder trial
  • Alexandra Tampakopoulos appointed to Attorney General’s Panel
  • “Chambers is sad to announce the death of William Denny CBE QC”
  • Novichok inquest to examine possible responsibility of Russian state for the death of Dawn Sturgess
  • A new guideline for sentencing offenders with mental disorders, developmental disorders and neurological impairments has been published by the Sentencing Council
  • Iain Daniels writes article for The Stage on Hate Crime Bill
  • Tax Avoidance 2021 – The Finance Bill
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Iain Daniels
  • Gavin Irwin speaks on the Sanctions Regime: 2020 webinar with LexisNexis Practice and Risk Compliance
  • “Paying the penalty – abuse of process and the standard of proof in Finance Act 2007 Penalties”
  • Newsflash from the Private Prosecution Group
  • No strike-off for doctor found to have had a sexually-motivated conversation with someone he believed to be a child
  • 2 Hare Court Criminal Regulatory Newsletter
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Lewis MacDonald, instructed by Ian Ryan of Howard Kennedy, act for client cleared in the Baker McKenzie case at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
  • Judicial Appointments for Michael Rawlinson: Employment Judge and First Tier Regulatory Chamber.
  • Sarah Przybylska and Julia Faure Walker have been appointed Treasury Counsel
  • Narita Bahra Q.C shortlisted for Asian Women of Achievement Award
  • IICSA begins country’s first virtual public inquiry hearings
  • Permission to apply for judicial review granted in challenge to new terrorism law
  • Professional Discipline Group Newsletter – May 2020
  • Student misconduct allegations and the right to a fair hearing – Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC co-writes blog with Sandra Paul of Kingsley Napley
  • Chamber’s announces the death of W. John Jones
  • Gavin Irwin represents Chinese national in application for Account Freezing Orders (‘AFrOs’) by the NCA during the public health emergency
  • Sports Law Group Newsletter Spring Edition
  • Covid-19 News
  • Acquittal of Spanish model in Ministry of Defence money laundering
  • Martin Hicks QC secures suspended sentence for seafood trader who smuggled £53million of endangered eels from UK to the Far East over 2 year period
  • Jonathan Rees QC and Will Martin secure acquittal of boy accused of murder during a drugs robbery
  • Marios Lambis concludes Inquest into detention centre death
  • Michael Rawlinson successfully defends Nottinghamshire Police Constable at gross misconduct hearing
  • Christopher Coltart QC acts for FA in successful appeal in Daniel Sturridge case
  • Grenfell Tower Inquiry hearings resume
  • Narita Bahra QC & Harry Bentley defend in Cardiff murder
  • Professional Discipline Group Newsletter
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Rebecca Erkan-Bax
  • Business Crime Group Newsletter
  • Brendan Kelly QC enjoys success following High Court trial in Northern Ireland
  • Costs in Private Prosecutions: A Landmark Decision
  • GDC and Attempted Murder
  • Jonathan Rees QC and Nneka Akudolu secure the conviction of Muhammad Rodwan following machete attack on a police officer
  • Sports Law Group Newsletter
  • Identifiable “flesh and blood officer” not required to issue self-assessment
  • Defendants sentenced in football bribery trial; prosecuted by Brian O’Neill QC, Julia Faure Walker and Merry van Woodenberg
  • Congratulations to Leon Kazakos & Mark Graffius on their Queen’s Counsel Appointments
  • IICSA publishes report on Children Outside the UK
  • Merry van Woodenberg acts for Compliance Officer acquitted of involvement in Legal Aid Fraud
  • Martin Hicks QC secures early acquittal in Uber Eats Driver Murder Trial
  • Fiona Robertson secures acquittal in joint enterprise rape
  • Nneka Akudolu’s client found not guilty of the rape of ‘unconscious complainant’
  • Brian O’Neill QC, Julia Faure Walker and Merry van Woodenberg secure convictions in football bribery trial at Southwark Crown Court
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division) rules no higher duty of care on public bodies conducting litigation
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC defends in case dismissed from the Central Criminal Court today.
  • Narita Bahra QC and Laura Stephenson defend in international drug conspiracies prosecuted by The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency
  • Christopher Coltart QC acts for Investment Fund Manager in Private Prosecution
  • Joshua Carey in Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Success
  • 2 Hare Court shortlisted in 2 Categories for The Legal 500 UK Awards 2020
  • Nneka Akudolu Defends Client Aquitted in Car Park Gang Rape Trial
  • Narita Bahra QC & Will Martin Instructed To Defend In A Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Prosecution
  • Narita Bahra QC instructed to defend in a triple Murder Trial
  • Craig Ferguson secures the Acquittal of Sprinkler Contractor After a Trial Lasting 5 Weeks
  • Narita Bahra QC successfully defended in £11M Money Laundering Trial
  • Acquittal of Lead Defendant in £25M Money Laundering Excise Fraud at Southwark Crown Court
  • The Delta Arrangement: Disguised Remuneration
  • Business Crime & Financial Services Group Newsletter
  • Nikita McNeill Represented Coroner to Quash Inquest Following Murder Conviction
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures First Ever Extension of a Provisional Statement for a Large Casino
  • Mark Graffius and Merry van Woodenberg Defend in Complex International Film Industry Fraud Case at Southwark Crown Court
  • Gudrun Young Secures Acquittal in Historic Rape Case
  • Brian O’Neill QC, Julia Faure Walker & Merry van Woodenberg Prosecute Football Bribery Trial at Southwark Crown Court
  • A Cautionary Tale for Experts by Narita Bahra QC
  • Private Prosecution Group Newsletter
  • Tom Day secures acquittal of Director of Approved Inspector Company for Fire Safety Order offences
  • Sexual misconduct: it’s worse if you’re a nurse
  • New Notification of Death Regulations: Filling A Lacuna in the Law
  • Alison Levitt QC is announced as Visiting Professor to Goldsmiths
  • Merry van Woodenberg’s client acquitted in ICO prosecution for unlawful obtaining of private data
  • Annual Regulatory Crime Seminar 2019
  • Narita Bahra QC, Criminal Lawyer of the Year 2019
  • Peter Lownds and Grace Forbes Represent Businessman Accused of Million Pound “Pay Day Loan” Fraud
  • Michael Rawlinson secures reinstatement of Police Sergeant at Police Appeals Tribunal hearing
  • £7.3m Money Laundering Confiscation Order for Former Goldman Sachs Trader
  • Leon Kazakos Shortlisted for Crime Junior of the Year in the Chambers UK Bar Awards
  • Gudrun Young Represents Former Blue Peter Star John Leslie
  • Narita Bahra QC Shortlisted for ‘Women in Law Award – 100 Years’ and ‘Criminal Lawyer 2019’ in the Asian Legal Awards
  • Alison Levitt QC Appears as Guest on BBC Radio 4 to Discuss Misconduct in Public Office
  • Merry van Woodenberg Successfully Defends Man Charged with Sexual Offences Against a Four and a Five Year Old
  • Mark Graffius secures Not Guilty verdict in alleged Gangland Attempted Murder
  • Nneka Akudolu Secures Conviction of Accountant and Former Maths Tutor for Serious Sexual Assaults Against Former Students Spanning Period of 23 Years
  • Gudrun Young Leading Sophia Dower Represent “Career Conman” Mark Acklom in Romance Fraud
  • Will Martin Represents The FA as Millwall FC Fined and Ordered to Implement Action Plan Following Racist Chanting by Supporters
  • Changes to Regulation of Healthcare Professionals
  • Howard Watkinson & Nikita McNeill Appointed to Attorney General’s Panel
  • Code for Private Prosecutors Published
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC Secures Acquittal for Client in 17 Count Indictment of Historic Rape
  • Vivienne Tanchel’s Client Acquitted of Conspiracy to Defraud and Money Laundering in Excess of £2million
  • Religion v Regulation – Do Facebook Posts About the “Wicked Act” of Homosexuality Bring the Profession into Disrepute?
  • No Go v Bojo – Divisional Court’s Reasoning for Quashing Issue of Summons Against Boris Johnson
  • Costs Against Private Prosecutor Upheld by Divisional Court, as Will Martin Successfully Represents Interested Parties in Judicial Review Proceedings
  • Murder Convictions in Woolwich Fire case – Julia Faure Walker Prosecutes
  • Tom Day Successfully Appeals Sentence in the Court of Appeal
  • “Inappropriate Protracted and Hostile Questioning” – From the Panel: Beard v General Osteopathic Council [2019] EWHC 1561 (Admin)
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC, Representing Bereaved Daughter and Sister in Inquest into Deaths of 2 Women, Establishes Failings by Police
  • Newsflash: ‘A Just and Fair Culture in Medicine’ Independent Review of Gross Negligence Manslaughter Publishes its Report
  • Gavin Irwin Avoids Imprisonment For Immigration Adviser
  • Last Orders! The Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme and Trading Pending Appeal
  • Fiona Robertson Challenges Murder Convictions Following Disruptions to Jury Deliberations
  • Alison Levitt QC appears on BBC Radio 4’s Law in Action to Discuss Private Prosecutions in the Wake of the Accusations Made Against Boris Johnson MP of the Crime of Misconduct in Public Office
  • Martin Hicks QC Secures Acquittal in ‘Attempt Murder’ Retrial Ordered by Court of Appeal
  • “I’m pretty sure I glanced at something”: Due Diligence in Instructing Experts
  • Tom Day and JMW Solicitors LLP Secure Minimal Confiscation Order in European Cocaine Conspiracy
  • JUSTICE Publishes Report on Prosecuting Sexual Offences
  • Martin Hicks QC and Leon Kazakos Successfully Halt Private Prosecution
  • Marios Lambis Represents GP at Inquest of Six-Year-Old Boy
  • Major Carbon Credit & Diamond Trial Collapses After Narita Bahra QC Exposes Fundamental Disclosure Failings
  • Mark Graffius and Nikita McNeill Appear in Complex MTIC Alchohol Fraud
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Begins Inquest into the Murders of Christine and Lucy Lee
  • Zubair Ahmad QC Represents Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Niece in National Crime Agency Investigation into Breaches of the Syria Sanctions
  • Upper Tribunal Rules Schedule 55 Self-Assessment Penalty Regime is Proportionate
  • CPR31 Disclosure for AWRS Appeals
  • Joshua Carey Obtains Permission to Appeal to the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in £350,000 Damages Claim
  • Gavin Irwin and Fiona Robertson Conclude Six Month, Cross-Border, Fraud and Money Laundering Trial
  • Hannah Thomas Appears in the Divisional Court
  • Newsflash: Inquest Update
  • IICSA Report Published into Church of England Failures
  • Regulatory Crime Spring Newsletter
  • Gang Members Sentenced for Murder of Suffolk Teenager: Oliver Glasgow QC and Sarah Przybylska Prosecute
  • Nikita McNeill Appears in Inquest into the Death of Bristol University Student
  • Michael Rawlinson Acts for The FA in Successful Misconduct Proceedings Brought Against Cardiff City FC Manager Neil Warnock
  • David Whittaker QC and Gudrun Young successfully defend 17 year old boy charged with attempted murder in knife attack
  • Andrew Colman Successfully Defends General Practitioner Facing 39 Allegations
  • Michael Hayton QC Successfully Represents Dr Bawa-Garba
  • Sophia Dower Secures Acquittal of Teacher Accused of Assaulting 12 Year Old Girl in Road Rage Incident
  • Update to the Criminal Practice Directions: 1 April 2019
  • Michael Rawlinson Secures Reinstatement of PC Following Police Appeals Tribunal Hearing
  • Andrew Colman Successfully Defends Vaser Liposelection™ Practitioner Facing 28 Allegations
  • Andrew Hurst Appointed Circuit Judge
  • ‘Causation, Statistics and Survivability’
  • Chambers Welcomes New Tenants
  • 2 Hare Court Receives Certificate of Recognition for Well-being
  • Cantor Fitzgerald Should have Known its Transactions Were Connected with Fraud
  • Martin Hicks QC and Scott Ivill Secure Acquittal in Highly Publicised ‘Exorcism’ Killing Trial
  • The Relevance of Linked Organisations in Sentencing Corporate Defendents
  • Sweeping Changes to UK AML and Sanctions Regimes
  • Narita Bahra QC Marks First 100 Years and Becomes 1st Female Criminal Silk to Begin the “Lethbridge Gloves” Tradition on Silks Day
  • David Whittaker QC Successfully Defends Businessman Charged with Money Laundering
  • Brian O’Neill QC Secures Acquittal of Austrian Financier in Privately Prosecuted Fraud
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes 2 New Tenants
  • Jonathan Rees QC and Will Martin Secure Conviction of 6 Men for ‘Monstrous’ Acid Attack on Toddler
  • Gudrun Young Secures No Case to Answer in Controversial First Prosecution for ‘Transgender Hate Crime’
  • Jonathan Rees QC Secures Life Sentence for Boy Who Violently Murdered 14 Year Old Viktorija Sokolova
  • Private Prosecution Newsletter
  • Julia Faure Walker Appears as Junior Counsel to IICSA’s Children Outside the UK Investigation
  • Chris Gillespie Successfully Defends GP Accused of Improper Sexual Relationship with Former Patient
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Acts for SFO in Petrofac Corruption Plea
  • Michael Rawlinson Successful in Misconduct Defence of Detective Inspector
  • Congratulations to David Whittaker, Zubair Ahmad & Narita Bahra on Their Queen’s Counsel Appointments
  • Reasonable Excuse Revisited
  • Two City Businessmen Sentenced for Operating a “Clever and Sophisticated Fraud on Investors”: Angus Bunyan Prosecutes
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Accepts Master of the Bench Invitation
  • Nikita McNeill Represents Travel Company in Inquest into Death Following Balcony Fall
  • Narita Bahra and Tom Day Secure Acquittals in a Royal Mail Private Prosecution of a Multi Million Pound Fraud
  • Regulatory Crime Winter Newsletter
  • Sarah Przybylska Secures Conviction of Jamie Acourt on Drug Trafficking Charge
  • Litigation Privilege in the Board Room: WH Holding Ltd-v-E20 Stadium LLP [2018] EWCA Civ 2652
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Accepts Master of the Bench Invitation
  • Tax Team Winter Newsletter
  • 2 Hare Court Receives Multiple Nominations in Legal 500 2019 Awards
  • Gudrun Young Successfully Defends Leading Feminist & Anti-Racist Campaigner Linda Bellos OBE in Private Prosecution
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Successfully Defends in Malicious Prosecution Claim
  • Angus Bunyan and Howard Watkinson Obtain 10 Convictions in £8m Vehicle Fraud
  • Sophia Dower Successfully Appeals Against TFL’s Decision to Revoke Uber Driver’s Private Hire Licence
  • Brendan Kelly QC & Vivienne Tanchel Secure Acquittal in North Sea Gas Corruption Conspiracy
  • Costs Order Successfully Secured Against Private Prosecutor for Improperly Commencing Criminal Proceedings
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC in success in Court of Appeal Civil Division
  • Successful Submission of no Case to Answer in Murder for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC
  • Head of White Collar Crime at Mishcon de Reya Joins 2 Hare Court
  • Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley Secure Acquittals in Series of International and National Drugs Conspiracies
  • Chambers & Partners UK 2019 Rankings Released
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 2018
  • Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley Secure Acquittal for Client Charged with Multi-Million Pound Conspiracy to Manufacture, Import, Export and Distribute Anabolic Steroids (Class C drugs)
  • Craig Ferguson Secures the Acquittal of Topcon Construction Ltd
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Leads for the Crown in Important Court of Appeal Decision
  • Tom Day has successfully overturned an order made by the Interim Orders Tribunal of the MPTS
  • Brian O’Neill QC Secures Acquittal in Long Running Civil Private Prosecution
  • Fiona Robertson Successfully Appeals Firearm Sentence
  • 2 Hare Court Members Shortlisted in Chambers Bar Awards 2018
  • Nikita McNeill appears in Article 2 Inquest following A&E death
  • Brendan Kelly QC Secures Acquittal in ‘Pack’ Murder
  • Brian O’Neill QC and Christopher Ware Secure Acquittal in Gangland Murder
  • Jonathan Rees QC & Will Martin Successfully Prosecute Delroy Forrester for Unlawful Killing of his 11 Year Old Great-Niece
  • Double Murderer Convicted
  • Narita Bahra Secures Acquittal for Javon Roach in Jeweller Murder
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Secures Acquittal in Victim Right to Review Case
  • Gudrun Young Successfully Defends GP Charged with 7 Counts of Sexual Assault
  • IICSA: Nikita McNeill Appears in Hearing into the Offending of Former Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball
  • Martin Hicks QC Successfully Defends GP Accused of Defrauding 96 year old French Resistance Heroine
  • Suspended Sentence for Perverting the Course of Justice
  • Tobacco and Personal Use: The Assessment and Penalty
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Secures Acquittal in First Prosecution of a Far Right Organisation Since World War II
  • Gavin Irwin successfully represents Emergency Medicine Registrar at the Inquest of a 33 year old woman who died from a rare form of infection
  • Paul Renteurs Acts for The FA in Regulatory Proceedings Brought Against Ex West Ham Recruitment Director Tony Henry Over Comments Regarding African Players
  • Alex Tampakopoulos Represents the Family of a Challenger 2 Tank Commander, One of Two Crewmen Killed During a Live Firing Shoot at Castlemartin
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures Sympathetic Sentence for 63 yr Old Who Killed Her Father and Buried Him in Her Garden After Lifetime of Abuse
  • Gavin Irwin Averts Closure of School after Discovery of Weapons and £400,000 Cash
  • Narita Bahra appears on BBC Radio 4 to discuss Disclosure Failings
  • Largest ever privately prosecuted fraud
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC achieves settlement for UN Whistleblower after 15 year battle
  • HMRC Crack Down on VAT Evasion Offences
  • Naeem Mian QC represents man charged with encouraging acts of terrorism against Royal Family
  • Belhaj Litigation: UK Apologises over Libyan Dissident Treatment
  • Disclosure failings result in collapse of a multi million pound evasion of excise duty
  • Naeem Mian QC Secures Acquittal of 19 Year Old Boy for Murder
  • Acid Attacker Cleared of Murdering Nurse
  • Former Gurkha Lorry Driver Spared Jail After Fatally Knocking into Lord Taylor of Blackburn
  • Strong Warning Given as Judge Suspends Sentence for Juror Research
  • Andrew Colman Successfully Vindicates Internationally Renowned Consultant Surgeon
  • Christopher Coltart QC Appointed as a Sports Arbitrator with Sport Resolutions Ltd
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Appointed as one of three new Disciplinary Tribunal Chairs by the ICAEW
  • Christopher Coltart QC is instructed to represent Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the centre of the Facebook data harvesting row
  • Brendan Kelly QC Successfully Represents International Rugby Player Paddy Jackson
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Michael Rawlinson
  • Naeem Mian QC Secures Conditional Caution for Youth Charged with Terrorism Offences
  • Laura Stephenson successfully Appeals against the Extradition of a Mother accused of grievous bodily harm in Hungary
  • Tax Spring Newsletter
  • Nikita McNeill appears in the public hearings for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
  • Gavin Irwin Represents Principal Conspirator in £37m ‘Copy-cat Website’ Fraud
  • Narita Bahra’s client cleared of Rape weeks after Sexual Assault Acquittal
  • Brian O’Neill QC and Sarah Przybylska win costs hearing following successful defence of Private Prosecution
  • Tom Day represents national company acquitted of Health & Safety Offence
  • Counterfeit Airbags Prosecution under the Trade Marks Act 1994
  • Inquest finds “Gross Failings” Contributed to Avoidable Death from Constipation
  • Peter Gray QC Successfully Represents Chevron North Sea Ltd in HM Inspector of Health & Safety v Chevron North Sea Ltd.
  • Naeem Mian QC secures acquittal of man charged with planning a Bombing Campaign on the UK Mainland
  • Jim Buchanan Appears for the London Borough of Croydon (LBC) for Breach of Section 2 HSWA
  • Finsbury Park Attacker Darren Osborne Sentenced to Life with a Minimum Term of 43 Years
  • HHJ Perrins slams CPS for wholesale disclosure failings as Narita Bahra and Fiona Robertson’s client walks free
  • Tom Day Appears for ex Council Chairman charged with 12 Fire Safety Breaches Following Rutland Street Fire
  • Crime Team Winter Newsletter
  • Narita Bahra’s client Valentin Krzyzyk cleared of Sexual Assault after Police fail to hand over vital CCTV evidence
  • Terrorism Cases: Where Sanctions Designations Apply in Tandem with Criminal Proceedings
  • Julia Faure Walker and Sarah Przybylska appointed Treasury Counsel Monitorees
  • Liam Allan Rape Trial Collapse
  • Romanian Extradition: Stasis Maintained
  • Sarah Przybylska and Lewis MacDonald prosecute boiler room Fraud targeted at elderly
  • GMC has Dropped its Appeal and JR against a Doctor’s Restoration to the Register
  • Will a gambler change Hong Kong Law?
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Jonathan Kinnear QC
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in Legal 500 UK Awards 2018
  • Dishonesty and the GMC: the first case after Ivey v Genting Casinos
  • Andrew Radcliffe QC Secures Acquittal in Op Amazon After 10 Month Trial
  • Howard Watkinson and Joshua Carey successfully represent HMRC in multi-million pound Appeal
  • 11 Convictions Upheld in Rolf Harris Appeal
  • Narita Bahra appears for Sky News discussing the UK Harvey Weinstein Allegations
  • Discrimination and the GMC – Michalak v GMC [2017] UKSC 71
  • The Proper Approach to Restoration Hearings
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC and Vivienne Tanchel Secure Acquittal of 18 Year Old Boy for Murder
  • 2 Hare Court Receives Record Rankings in Chambers & Partners UK 2018 Guide
  • Gosh! Where has Ghosh gone?
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Will Martin
  • Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering Bill Published
  • Quinn Hawkins instructed in ‘Serial Killer’ Providenciales Murder
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 2017
  • The Lammy Review: A Conversation
  • Deaconal investigation success for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC
  • Tax Newsflash
  • 3 members appear for the Rooney family in biggest ever prosecution of ‘slavery’ offences – Operation Pottery
  • Brendan Kelly QC represented Suzie Best in her application for a Horse Training Licence
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC’s Multi-Millionaire Client Acquitted of Multiple Historic Allegations of Rape
  • Harry Bentley Secures Acquittal for Alleged Fraudulent Headteacher who ‘raided school funds’
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Successfully Opposes Application to Quash Acquittal for 1984 Murder
  • Narita Bahra secures acquittal for Ex-Universal Music Media Mogul
  • Narita Bahra Discusses The NCA Intelligence-Sharing Scheme Blocking Sex Offenders Entering SE Asia on Sky News
  • Narita Bahra & Harry Bentley Represent Client Involved in Bedford Shooting
  • Narita Bahra leading Stephen Donelly acted for a client who was charged with an array of Money Laundering, Fraud, supply of class A drugs and cultivation of class B drugs offences
  • Fiona Robertson’s Playwright Client Acquitted of Groping Young Actress
  • CAS Upholds Life Bans for Top Russian Athletics Officials: Jonathan Laidlaw QC Acts for IAAF
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in Chambers UK 2017 Bar Awards
  • His Honour Judge Julian Nicholas Goose QC Appointed Justice of the High Court
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures Acquittal of Notorious Gangland Murder
  • Train driver cleared of endangering passenger safety on a railway
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes 2 New Tenants
  • Fiona Robertson’s client found not guilty on all historic sex charges
  • Christopher Geering’s Client Acquitted and Awarded Record Costs Against the ACCA
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC secures costs against CPS following a failed prosecution under the Victim Right to Review scheme
  • Stalking Victims Being Put at Risk by Police Failings – Christopher Ware Instructed by HMIC to Advise on Harassment and Stalking Report
  • Fiona Robertson’s client acquitted of all historic rape charges
  • Ben Rich represents Isle of Wight Council in the successful prosecution of term-time holiday dad, Jonathan Platt
  • Tom Day secures licence for Cliff Richard concert
  • Narita Bahra represents the The Sikh Channel at Office of Communications Regulatory Tribunal
  • Nicholas Hall & Tom Day represent family of man murdered by mentally ill neighbour previously deemed as ‘no immediate risk’
  • Mark Graffius and Nikita McNeill defend in £46million wine fraud
  • James Buchanan secures acquittal of excavator driver on charges of manslaughter by gross negligence, perverting the course of justice and Section 2 HSWA.
  • Narita Bahra defends in a £78 Million Money Laundering Conspiracy
  • Tyrone Belger and Lewis MacDonald represent defendant accused of defrauding the Metropolitan Police
  • Tube Bomb Plotter Damon Smith Sentenced to 15 Years
  • London Legal Walk 2017
  • Narita Bahra Secures Acquittal for a Holistic Healer Charged with Sexual Offences
  • GMC v Dr X – Dishonesty Does Not Automatically Require A Sanction
  • Tom Day represents GP following fire that killed pensioner
  • SFO v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd: internal investigations under threat
  • Christopher Ware acts for the FA in Anti-Doping case
  • Narita Bahra Defends Client in Multi Million Pound Drugs Conspiracy
  • Peter Lownds in Successful Sentencing Appeal for ‘Cocaine Pilot’
  • Peter Lownds Represents Senior Banker in $3.5M Banking Corruption Case
  • Jonathan Rees QC prosecutes London Tube bomb accused Damon Smith
  • Narita Bahra acts for Barclays Banker in UK’s biggest Cyber Fraud Operation Kadenza
  • Narita Bahra and Joshua Carey represent Director in European Union Match Funding Conspiracy to Defraud in excess of £1million
  • Christopher Coltart QC acts for the FA in disciplinary proceedings brought against Joey Barton for betting on football matches
  • Successful prosecution of Slovakian people trafficking ring by Sarah Przybylska
  • Queensbury Legal Charity Boxing 2017 – Gallery
  • Nikita McNeill presents case against headteacher dismissed from London school for altering pupils’ exam papers
  • David Whittaker represents building company cleared of charges under Health & Safety Legislation Following a “Work at Height” Death
  • Michael Hayton QC represents Essar Oil Limited following high risk explosion
  • Queensbury Legal 2017
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC assigned Vice-Chair for CBA Mentoring Scheme
  • Businessmen cleared in Nationwide Heroin Conspiracy
  • Deprivation of Liberty – the saga continues
  • Praise for Sallie Bennett–Jenkins QC from Director of Refuge, Sandra Horley CBE
  • Marios Lambis successfully defends doctor accused of fraud
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC secures non custodial sentence for indecent images
  • Chris Gillespie considers the Sentencing Council’s Definitive Guideline on Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty Plea
  • David Whittaker Successfully Defends Partner of TOWIE Star in Drug Prosecution
  • Leon Kazakos Successfully Represents Police Officer
  • Lewis MacDonald presents case against Carrie-Anne Nash over death of 10-year-old
  • Nikita McNeill successfully represents nurse accused of causing or contributing to death of elderly patient
  • Brian O’Neill QC successfully represents Rohan Ince
  • Joshua Carey successful in resisting Permission to Proceed in the High Court
  • When a Mistake is not Misconduct
  • Narita Bahra’s client cleared of a forty six count Indictment containing grooming, rape and sexual assault allegations
  • Successful prosecution of HBoS corruption trial by Brian O’Neill QC and Angus Bunyan
  • Chris Foulkes in largest UK deferred prosecution agreement
  • Joshua Carey appointed to the Attorney-General’s Civil C Panel
  • Orlando Pownall QC represents jailed city worker Ke Xu accused of “deliberately” refusing to surrender seized software
  • Peter Gray QC (Scotland) Joins 2 Hare Court
  • Joshua Carey represents train driver accused of endangering passenger
  • Alex Tampakopoulos Successfully Represents Property Development Company at Newton Hearing
  • Congratulations to Naeem Mian on his Queen’s Counsel Appointment
  • Tom Day Represents Independent Hospital at Inquest into the Death of a 77-year Old Man
  • Narita Bahra instructed in Multi-Million Pound Tax and Duty Evasion Fraud.
  • Serial Killer Stephen Port Sentenced to Life Imprisonment For Murdering Four Men
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC Appears Before the British Horseracing Authority
  • Naeem Mian wins Criminal Lawyer of the Year Award 2016
  • Ben Rich Defends Nurse Accused of Falsifying Temperature Record of Colleague Who Got Ebola
  • Fiona Robertson’s Client Avoids Custody for his Part in Cannabis Ring
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC Appears for the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF)
  • Michael Hayton QC Represents Multi National Chemical Company in Fatality Prosecution
  • Michael Hayton QC elected Leader of the Northern Circuit
  • Tom Day Represents National Private Security Company
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked in Chambers & Partners UK 2017 Guide
  • 2 Hare Court Awarded Professional Discipline Set of the Year 2016 by Chambers UK
  • 2 Hare Court Awarded Crime Set of the Year in Legal 500 UK 2017
  • Zubair Ahmad Called to The Bar of NI
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins & Harry Bentley Begin Trial for PC Semple Murder
  • David Howker QC
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in The Legal 500 UK 2017 Awards
  • Vivienne Tanchel Defends GP in the Inquest of the Death of Ivy Atkin
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Christopher Ware Successfully Defend in a Private Prosecution
  • Knife-Wielding Pensioner acquitted
  • Congratulations to our new tenants following successful pupillages
  • Chris Gillespie Represents Corporate Client at Zane Gbangbola Inquest
  • Brian O’Neill QC and Angus Bunyan Prosecute Bank Corruption Trial at Southwark CC
  • Christopher Ware Represents a Company Director on a Conspiracy Allegation
  • Brian O’Neill QC prosecutes on case of fraud and corruption at HBOS
  • David Whittaker acts for care-home company prosecuted under new regulations following death of patient
  • Narita Bahra Acts for Defendant Involved in £113 Million Money Laundering Cyber Scam
  • David Whittaker, Craig Ferguson & Christopher Gillespie Conduct a Mock Health & Safety Trial
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in Chambers UK Bar Awards
  • Fiona Robertson Secures Acquittal For Client Charged With GBH After Nightclub Brawl
  • Christopher Ware Acts For ACCA Against An Accountant Convicted In £2.6m Fraud
  • David Howker QC 1959-2016
  • Non Custodial Sentence for Nurse Convicted of Fraud
  • Narita Represents Ring Leader in Conspiracy to Supply Firearms
  • Tom Day Secures Licence for Bryan Adams Performance at the Betley Concerts
  • Narita Represents High Profile Solicitor
  • Defendants accused of cheating Her Majesty’s customs of £500,000 avoid immediate custodial sentence
  • Naeem Mian Makes Closing Submissions on Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures case
  • Naeem Mian and Robert Dacre Secure Acquittal in Terrorism Trial
  • Jonathan Rees QC Prosecutes Optometrist Honey Rose found Guilty of Manslaughter by Gross Negligence
  • Commercial Scale Cannabis Factory Bust
  • Tom Day represents a GP in relation to the death of a young woman who suffered from anorexia nervosa
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Craig Ferguson represent first company to be sentenced for Corporate Manslaughter since the new Definitive Guideline came into force
  • Narita secures acquittal for client charged with Money Laundering in excess of £500,000
  • Success for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins in a disclosure battle with CPS in Victims Right to Review case together with an apology from the CPS for her client
  • Christopher Geering Successfully Represents Doctor Charged with Sexually Assaulting Colleague
  • Scott Ivill’s Client Cleared of 11 Separate Allegations including alleged Acts and/or Omissions that Contributed Towards a Patient’s Death
  • Rights of the Victim v the Defendant: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?
  • Jonathan Rees QC Prosecutes Attacker Found Guilty of Attempted Murder after ISIS-inspired Leytonstone Tube Attack.
  • Richard Huckle Given 22 Life Sentences
  • Angus Bunyan Prosecutes Defence Firm Directors Who Bribed US Businessman to Land a £5m Military Supply Deal
  • Brian O’Neill QC prosecutes ‘Britain’s worst ever paedophile’
  • Pre-Trial Disclosure Issues in Claim Subjected to Closed Material Procedure Direction
  • Brian O’Neill QC Prosecutes Two Teenagers for Knife Murder
  • Chris Gillespie successfully challenges production order for medical records
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC secures rehearing before British Horseracing Authority
  • Michael Hayton QC successfully represented Premier League footballer in his appeal against a curfew order
  • Oliver Glasgow QC & Sarah Przybylska make closing submissions on behalf of the Jersey Law Officers’ Department at the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry
  • Martin Heslop QC secures acquittals for client with allegations of historic rape and sexual violence
  • David Howker QC represents mentally ill ‘Road Rage’ man accused of murder
  • Marios Lambis defends doctor convicted of prolonged fraud against his employing NHS hospital
  • Craig Ferguson defends doctor cleared of manslaughter by gross negligence
  • Orlando Pownall QC and David Whittaker client acquitted of insider dealing
  • Special Immigration Appeals Commission finds refusal of British citizenship unfair
  • Verdicts in the Hillsborough Inquest
  • Fiona Robertson secures appeal against sentence 
  • Prosecution of man for murder of elderly neighbour
  • Narita Appears in Historic Child Grooming Case
  • Personal Assistant to James Bond producer acquitted of Fraud and Theft
  • Fiona Robertson’s Client Acquitted on Appeal of Rape
  • Transgender carer found guilty of murdering her MS-Suffering father
  • Martin Heslop QC secures acquittal of 20 year old in gang related South London stabbing
  • 2 Hare Court are pleased to announce the arrival of Mark Graffius
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC represents trainer before British Horseracing Authority
  • Killer of unborn child is jailed for life
  • Orlando Pownall QC and Gudrun Young defend in Adam Johnson trial
  • Christopher Ware acts for the FA against three players for breaching FA conduct rules
  • Vivienne Tanchel’s client acquitted in LIBOR broker trial
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC is listed as one of Britain’s 500 most influential individuals
  • Orlando Pownall QC and David Whittaker commence Operation Tabernula
  • Case of R v Michael Misick & 8 Others
  • Congratulations to Oliver Glasgow on his QC appointment
  • Leon Kazakos represents the first defendant in the case of Sebastiano Magnanini
  • Jonathan Rees QC secures convictions in child destruction case
  • Marios Lambis secures an acquittal for a doctor
  • Further finding of unacceptable professional conduct in Trojan Horse case
  • Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley Secure an Acquittal in the UK Revenge Attack Against the Followers of those who Burnt the Guru Granth Sahib in India
  • Brendan Kelly QC secures acquittal for a solicitor charged with Perverting the Course of Justice
  • Orlando Pownall QC and Jonathan Laidlaw QC successfully defend in Cairns Trial
  • Findings of misconduct in first Birmingham Schools Trojan Horse case
  • Oliver Glasgow appointed Senior Treasury Counsel
  • 2 Hare Court is an “exceptionally good set” that is home to “advocates of outstanding quality”
  • Stephen Brassington wins Chambers UK 2015 Professional Discipline award
  • Tom Day represents the FA over Arsenal’s breach of football agents regulations
  • Should Cartel Activity be a Criminal Offence in Hong Kong?
  • “Trojan Horse” Cases: 2 Hare Court Team Commence the First NCTL Hearings
  • Orlando Pownall QC & Jonathan Laidlaw QC Defend in Cairns Trial
  • 2 Hare Court are pleased to announce the arrival of Michael Hayton QC
  • Tesco Cash for Crash Insurance Fraud Conspiracy
  • 2 Hare Court nominated in 3 categories for the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2015
  • 2 Hare Court ranked top 5 for quasi-criminal Barrister rankings in the Legal 500 2015
  • Orlando Pownall QC and Zubair Ahmad successfully defend murder suspect at the Central Criminal Court
  • Orlando Pownall QC Represents Former Cricket Captain Accused of Perjury & Perverting the Course of Justice
  • Narita Bahra acts for client in Aylesbury Child Sex Ring Trial
  • Operation Cotton – Allegation of Conspiracy to Defraud
  • 2 Hare Court are shortlisted for ‘Chambers of the Year’ – Legal Awards 2015
  • Trevor Gibbon Fatally Stabs Neighbour in Two-Year Noise Row Revenge
  • Stage 1 Large Casino Licence Granted for Aspers in Southampton Royal Pier Development
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures Acquittals in Alleged Multi-Million Pound Class A Drug Smuggling Conspiracy
  • New GDC PCC & ISG Guidance
  • Teenager Charged with Acts of Terrorism and ‘Terror Grooming’
  • Christopher Geering successfully appeals the GMC’s decision to erase a doctor from the register
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    • SFC fine EFG Bank AG
    • Call for consistency across Coronial areas
    • Brexit Select Committee Publishes Sanctions Report
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    • What is a “Criminal Cause or Matter” and why does it matter?
    • As a $31m Crypto-Currency Heist is Revealed, is there a Wave of Crypto-Crime Litigation on the Horizon?
    • Nutanix – an Erosion of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination?
    • Bishop’s Review of Hillsborough Families’ Experiences Calls for Change Including Publicly Funded Legal Representation for Bereaved Families at Inquests
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• Category: Newsflash
  • Hillingdon Underground Station killers sentenced at Old Bailey
  • Now who is lacking insight?
  • Professional Standards Authority v HCPC and Wood [2019] EWHC 2819 (Admin) – Charging motivation and lies in investigation
  • Professional Discipline Summer Newsletter
  • Innocent Agents – Liable for Unpaid Duty but not Penalties?
  • Combatting a Culture of Adjournments?
  • Court of Appeal’s “Very Regrettable” Forced Hand Following Indictment Errors in Historic Sex Trial
  • R v Tas [2018] EWCA Crim 2603: manslaughter and joint enterprise post-Jogee
  • Litigation Privilege Restored by Court of Appeal in ENRC v SFO
  • No Presumption of Erasure: Bawa-Garba v GMC [2018] EWCA Civ 1879
  • Civil Standard for Suicides: R (Maughan) v HM Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2018] EWHC 1955 (Admin) (Leggatt LJ, Nicol J)
  • Newsflash: Sentencing Guidelines for Manslaughter Introduced
  • The Challenges of Challenging the Coroner: R (Parkinson) v HM Senior Coroner for Kent, Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust & Sameer Hijazi [2018] EWHC 1501 (Admin)
  • The Relevance of Retirement? General Optical Council v Clarke [2018] EWCA Civ 1463
  • Sentencing company Directors
  • The Duty of Candour: “its importance cannot be overstated”
  • Defending Directors: Hidden Gems in the Companies Act 2006
  • When is a “Reasonable Excuse” Reasonable?
  • Fresh OFSI Guidance for Importers and Exporters & Significant Iran Sanctions Developments
  • USA Rachets up Russia Sanctions – Will the UK follow?
  • Soft Drinks – Hard Times
  • A Money Laundering Directive Too Far?
  • FCA Enforcement Policy – Consultation Unveiled
  • Lack of integrity: A Useful Shorthand
  • When is an Expert not an Expert?

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Training & Knowledge

• Government Rejects Treasury Committee's Recommendation That A Single Law Enforcement Agency Tackle Economic Crime
• The Online Safety Bill
• The Economic Crime Act 2022…A Headache For The Kleptocrats?...
• The rejected defence: a comprehensive overview Sawati v General Medical Council [2022] EWHC 283 (Admin)
• How many misconduct charges does it take to make serious misconduct? Ahmedsowida v GMC [2021] EWHC 3466 (Admin)
• Freedom of expression and the IOT: White v GMC [2021] EWHC 3286 (Admin)
• Article 2 and children in care: R (Boyce) v HM Senior Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool [2022] EWHC 107 (Admin) (21 January 2022)
• Directing the jury: R (Ginn) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner London [2022] EWHC 28 (Admin)
• “He’s checking his list; he’s checking it twice.…”
• Greenwashing – a Minute to Midnight?
• Government Responds to Coroner Service Inquiry Report: what changes to the inquest process can we expect?
• Creeping unfairness and remote hearings at the General Dental Council
• Complainant Bad Character in Disciplinary Proceedings
• An end to non-professional professional misconduct?
• Joy Dove v HM Assistant Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool [2021] EWHC 2511 (Admin)
• Maintaining High Professional Standards: Procedural fairness and categorisation
• Testosterone Guinea Pigs and lex mitior - Salazar v USADA
• The Pandora Papers – Leaks, Loopholes and Lethargy
• From the ODT to OMG: Reaction to and an analysis of the recent takeover of Newcastle United FC
• R v Morahan [2021] EWHC 1603 (Admin) - Article 2 in Inquests: Revisited, Restated and Clearly Explained
• The Building Safety Bill: A Sea Change
• The Building Safety Bill and Fire Safety
• The Health and Safety Executive, Workplace Safety and our Return to the “Old” Normal
• Work Injuries and Ill-Health: Notable Statistics and Trends
• Private Prosecutions and the Need for Compelling Reasons Not to Issue a Summons
• Summonses & Settlements: A Road Map Through the Thicket
• [Dr] No risk of dissipation - Les Ambassadeurs Club Ltd v Yu
• New Sentencing Guidelines for unauthorised use of a trade mark by individuals and organisations
• Christopher Coltart QC considers the legal rulings made in the course of The FA v Daniel Sturridge
• Technology & Strategic Export Controls
• Court of Appeal warns advocates to take care where life sentences and determinate sentences are imposed at the same time – Narita Bahra QC & Stacy Stroud
• Cryptocurrency – As the CPS prepares for a surge in fraud, the FCA begins to regulate
• Gavin Irwin and Merry van Woodenberg explore recent developments in the field of financial and trade sanctions
• Deceptively simple - or simply deceptive? The dangers of over-complicating misconduct allegations – and over-simplifying reasons
• Denials, insight and sanction – the effect of denials on sanction
• Assessing credibility and the limits of demeanour – Khan v GMC [2021] EWHC 374 (Admin)
• Review or rehearing? Sastry & Okpara v GMC and the difference between s. 40 and s. 40A
• Factual findings made by the criminal court: Achina v General Pharmaceutical Council [2021] EWHC 415 (Admin)
• An expert free for all: Bux v GMC [2021] EWHC 762 (Admin)
• Are work related Covid 19 deaths going unreported?
• Sanctions for supporter disorder loom over the big six in the wake of the doomed European Super League project.
• The Court of Appeal restates a robust approach to secondary parties in homicide cases.
• ‘Big Tech Beware’
• SANCTIONS FOR RACIST ABUSE - Brian O'Neill QC and Paul Renteurs consider whether there is a role for the criminal law in stamping out racial abuse on the field of play.
• Fraud during the pandemic: might the government amend its Online Safety Bill?
• Cycling in turmoil?
• ‘We are what we do’: NatWest in the dock
• Costs – further implications in private prosecutions
• The competing rights of women in sport
• Insolvencies, Pensions and Prosecutions
• Remote hearings and dishonesty
• Conditional Discharges in regulatory proceedings
• When does inappropriate behaviour in the workplace amount to harassment?
• Interfering with the Tribunal’s discretion?
• Medical notes: a presumption of accuracy?
• The Identification Principle in the 21st Century - Chris Gillespie looks at the Law Commission's remit in its review of corporate criminal liability.
• Does Sport have a problem with Human Trafficking?
• Regulating the fast fashion industry: what does the future hold?
• The increased risks of work-related stress
• The Fatal Incident
• Developments in the Cannabis Regulatory Field
• 2020: The Year in Review
• Brexit Means Brexit? The Private Prosecution of Foreign Defendants in the Post Covid and Post Brexit World
• Private Prosecutions and the Public Interest
• Recent developments in costs
• Ivey and legal certainty in rate-rigging prosecutions
• Paul Renteurs considers whether new US anti-doping legislation is likely to lead to similar measures in the UK or elsewhere.
• R (on the application of Maughan) v. Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46
• DPA Update: Airline Services Limited
• Gavin Irwin reviews the recent surge in enforcement activity at the Financial Conduct Authority
• The Risks of Social Media in Sport
• POCA: A new future for the defendant's "benefit"
• Police officers and the use of force - are we really all missing the point?: R (Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Officer for Police Conduct [2020] EWCA Civ 1301
• A non-sexually motivated sexual assault?: GMC v Haris [2020] EWHC 2518 (Admin)
• The vexed question of Article 2: R (Peter Skelton and Elizabeth Skelton) v. The Senior Coroner for West Sussex and Others [2020] EWHC 2813 Admin
• A note of caution for sports agents, introducers and intermediaries: beware the implied “effective cause” term
• COVID-19 & Custody Time Limits: An Update
• R v Broughton Clarifying Causation in Gross Negligence Manslaughter
• Vigilante justice: is evidence obtained by ‘paedophile hunter’ groups admissible in criminal proceedings?
• Consent and fertility
• The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill
• The 2020 Disclosure Guidelines
• The Sentencing Code – Have we finally solved the Sentencing Jigsaw?
• Recent Proceeds of Crime Developments
• The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime and UK’s recent adoption of Magnitsky-type sanctions
• High Court gives timely reminder that demeanour is not everything: R (Dutta) v General Medical Council [2020] EWHC 1974 (Admin)
• UWOs and Serious Crime...Not Merely A Threat
• 2 Hare Court Sports Law Group: Athletics Round-Up
• 2 Hare Court Private Prosecution Newsflash
• 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Summer Newsletter
• HBOS: The final chapter?
• Sports' Books & Films: OUR TOP 10
• Reduction of mandatory suspensions for doping breaches: the strange case of Dr Johnson and the FA
• “New balls please”: Joe Marler takes the dark arts of rugby a step too far
• Doping and Arbitration in the time of Covid
• The importance of giving reasons
• The poison pen letter
• Safeguarding and extending time limits
• Replacing a Warning:
• When is strike-off all but automatic?
• Dishonesty re-visited
• What is a rare and exceptional circumstance?
• Why has there been a decline in fraud prosecutions?
• The Court of Appeal upholds the first Unexplained Wealth Order
• I’m frozen! The rise of the Magistrates’ Court freezing order
• Significant Judgment on Legal Advice Privilege Delivered by Court of Appeal in Civil Aviation Authority v R (on the application of Jet2.com Ltd) [2020] EWCA Civ 35
• Billions: Airbus and the future of DPA’s
• Anonymity Before Charge: Important Changes
• Football and Racism
• The strict test of the reasonable precautions defence where a prohibited substance is administered unintentionally
• WRU v Robert Howley – preserving the integrity of the game
• Breaches & Bungs
• To Infinity and beyond – the Upper Tribunal confirms that an underlying supply in order to claim input tax and that the principles in Teleos and Kittel are not the same.
• Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC") issue statement regarding disclosure and transparency
• The New SRA Standards and Regulations: a StaR is Born
• Corporate Transparency and Register Reform
• Investigating complex crime whilst restraining assets: ‘reasonable time’ v ‘practical realities’
• Corporate Intelligence: Strategic friend or foe?
• SFO Shuts Down Investigation into Libor Rigging
• Article 6 and compulsory production orders: Volaw Trust and Corporate Services Ltd and its Directors and others v The Office of the Comptroller of Taxes and another (Jersey)
• Serious Fraud Office v Serco Geografix Limited [2019] 7 WLUK 45
• No Go v Bojo
• Re Somaia and the Recovery of Costs in Enforcement Proceedings in the High Court
• Increasing Regulation of Private Prosecutions
• Investigatory Powers in Private Prosecutions: Hurdles and Opportunities
• Thakrar and the Ramifications for Private Prosecutors
• Unprecedented: Adverse Inferences in Regulatory Proceedings
• Court of Appeal Takes a Swipe at “Culture of Adjournment” Approach in Regulatory Proceedings
• A Tale of Two Leaks
• Ensuring the Reliability of Expert Witnesses in Criminal Cases
• SRA Developments in 2019
• Lacking Integrity - The Waters Re-Muddied in Adetoye v The Solicitors Regulation Authority
• Sastry v General Medical Council [2019] EWHC 390 (Admin)
• Blakely v GMC [2019] EWHC 905: Deny, Deny, Deny (But Try to Show Insight)
• Case Commentary: Maguire [2019] EWHC 1232 (Admin);
• R (Maughan) v Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2019] EWCA Civ 809:
• The Sentencing Council’s impact assessment shows an increase in fines imposed on individuals and organisations of all sizes following the introduction the Definitive Guideline on Sentencing on Health and Safety Offences, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety & Hygiene Offences
• Faltec Europe Ltd v Health and Safety Executive [2019] EWCA Crim 520
• Government Consultation on Legal Aid for Families at Inquests
• Guidance from the Court of Appeal in Sentencing Linked Organisations for Health & Safety Cases: R -v- NPS London Ltd [2019] EWCA Crim 228
• Andrew Left v Securities & Futures Commission & Market Misconduct Tribunal
• EL KAROUT and NMC, [2019] EWHC 28 (Admin)
• The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism v DPP
• Jurisdiction: Substantial Measures and Relevant Events
• The Man Who Wasn’t There: Private Prosecutions, Extradition and Interpol
• The Impact of Tactical Decisions on Parallel Proceedings
• Fingerprints and Forfeiture Without the Powers of the State
• Do I Have to Disclose Historic Convictions?
• Judging by Appearances
• Case Commentary: R v WINTERTON [2018] EWCA Crim 2435
• New Sentencing Guidelines for Manslaughter Offences Now in Force
• Challenging the Coroner: R (Parkinson) v HM Senior Coroner for Kent, Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust & Sameer Hijazi [2018] EWHC 1501 (Admin)
• Birmingham Pub Bombings - Coroner’s Decision on Scope Only Reviewable on Public Law Grounds
• What Can we Learn from the HSE Annual Statistics Report?
• Food Labelling in the Wake of the Death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse
• DOTAS: Houdini’s Escape?
• Karoulla t/a Brockley’s Rock: Revenue Battered on Disclosure
• The Bar Council 2018 Law Reform Essay Competition: Not a Silver Bullet… but a Bullet Nonetheless
• Cold Turkey? The Dangers of Withdrawal in the Tax Tribunal
• PML: Beware Agreements to Settle an Appeal
• Final Closing Speech
• Bolton Reaffirmed – Again
• Mental Health and “Exceptional Circumstances”
• Intentionally Misleading but not Dishonest
• No More ‘Manna Found on the Desert Floor’ for Insiders: The s. 271(3) Defence Revisited
• Extraterritorial Reach of Section 2 Notices
• Transparency and Overseas Ownership of UK Property The Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill
• Raychaudhuri v GMC: Ivey rules?
• Challenge To First Unexplained Wealth Order Fails In High Court
• Defending Private Prosecutions: Lessons To Be Learned
• Mixed & Ulterior Motives
• Disclosure In Private Prosecutions
• Who is the Private Prosecutor?
• Restraint, Confiscation and Compensation in Private Prosecutions
• Private Investigations
• Frozen Assets, Third Party Rights and Disclosure
• Achieving Sea-Change: Criminal Disclosure Failures
• The Duty to Report Foreign Misconduct Findings
• Without Notice, Without Merit: how far would you go for your client?
• Dr G Arunachalam v GMC [2018] EWHC 758 (Admin): Can a Doctor Escape Erasure for Repeated Sexual Misconduct?
• R (Lewin) v Financial Reporting Council and others [2018] EWHC 446: When can a Panel Criticise Those Outside the Profession?
• “If it’s not Written Down, it Didn’t Happen”
• New Guidance issued after Coroner’s ‘cab rank’ policy on burial quashed by the High Court in R (Adath Yisroel Burial Society) v Senior Coroner for Inner North London [2018]
• It Takes One to Quango- Sick to Death of Regulation in the Healthcare Sector?
• Reasonable Excuse for Non-Compliance with Self-Assessment (Perrin v HMRC)
• Hong Kong Newsflash: Trade Sanctions and Export Licensing
• Special Police Services and the Tractor Boys
• Financial Fair Play: Still All Bark and no Bite?
• Australian Ball-Tampering: Mob Justice or a Fair Cop?
• Consent and Society's Evolving Values Cannot Outweigh Public Protection
• The Golden Thread Survives Under the Modern Slavery Act
• Sentencing Guideline: Offensive Weapons and Bladed Articles
• Overarching Principles: Domestic Abuse
• Sentencing Guideline: Terrorism Offences
• An Update on the Enforcement Function of the Securities and Futures Commission
• Major Review of Meat Processing in the UK Launched by the FSA
• Enforcement Notices Post Chevron
• An Analysis of the Sentencing Process in HSE v Martin Baker Aircraft Ltd
• Impact of a death on fines for Health and Safety Offences [Whirlpool UK Appliances Ltd v R (Upon the prosecution of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Health and Safety) [2017] EWCA Crim 2186]
• Regulation 29(2)(A) VAT Rules 1995 ... The True Ambit of Discretion?
• I-AHHHH 35: There's Trouble Ahead
• Public Interest Immunity and the Tax Tribunal
• Disclosure and Fairness in Tax Appeals
• Remorse, Insight and Continued Denial – the Difficulty of Moving on after Sanction. Yusuff v General Medical Council [2018] EWHC 13 (Admin)
• PSA v NMC and X [2018] EWHC 70 (Admin)
• R (Clinton) v General Medical Council [2017] EWHC 3304 (Admin)
• Bye-bye Bijl
• Racial Discrimination by a Regulator: O’Connor v Bar Standards Board, 2017
• The Agreement in the Fury Case and the Vexed Question of the Burden and Standard of Proof for Athletes
• Nitrous Oxide - No Laughing Matter
• The Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) and Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Guidebook for Advocates on the Use of Statistical Evidence in Court
• Section 73 of SOCPA - What Happens When Terms Are Not Met?
• ‘Greater Threats to Society’ - The New Draft Guidelines for Terrorism Offences
• Driving Offences Which Cause Serious Injury or Death
• Self-defence and the Householder – Disproportionate Force May be Unreasonable Even in Defence of the Home
• HMICFRS Report Criticises Response to Modern Day Slavery
• Suspension or erasure? High Court rules in professional misconduct case (General Medical Council v Stone)
• Cross-examining expert witnesses; A Masterclass
• Inquests and Public Inquiries: Differences in Scope
• A view on the Sentencing Council’s Draft Guidelines for the Offence of Manslaughter in the Health & Safety Context
• Reasonable foreseeability after R v Rose
• “Exercising Restraint?”
• Newcastle United Football Club and Others v HMRC: A Backwards Step in Relation to Search Warrants?
• The Right to Silence is Not Yet Silent
• The SFO Survives the Latest Political Reshuffle
• Financial Sanctions: A Minefield for Business
• GMC v Theodoropoulos [2017]EWHC 1984(Admin)
• The Impact of an Interim Order on Sanction
• General Medical Council v The Queen (on the application of Dr Iheanyi Chidi Nwachuku) [2017] EWHC 2085 (Admin)
• General Medical Council v Jagjivan & PSA [2017] EWHC 1247 (Admin)
• Doherty v NMC [2017] EWCA Civ 1344
• Differentiating Dishonesty
• Legislative Overhaul for the NMC: Consolidation and Expansion
• The Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme: Trading pending appeal
• Is Dishonesty the Best Policy?
• R (on the application of Hely-Hutchinson) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2017] EWCA Civ 1075
• Comply or Fail
• A Question of Jurisdiction or Questionable Jurisdiction?
• Coming Soon, A New Data Protection Act for the United Kingdom
• Doli Incapax and Historic Sexual Offending
• Positive developments in third party funding of arbitrations
• Competition matters exclusively within the jurisdiction of the Competition Tribunal
• Coutts Hong Kong fined by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority
• Thefaut v Johnston [2017] EWHC 497:
• Lack of integrity in disciplinary proceedings: two recent conflicting authorities
• General Medical Council v Chopra [2017] EWHC 819 (Admin)
• A Scottish twist to Enemuwe
• When is “misconduct” a sanction?
• Craig v Farriers’ Registration Council [2017] EWHC 707 (Admin)
• The regulation of private lives
• Day v Health Education England [2017] EWCA Civ 329
• General Medical Council v Banerjee: ‘Lesson in not leaving it too late’
• General Optical Council v Clarke [2017] EWHC 521 (Admin): Retirement reduces risk to the public
• Representation in section 2 CJA 1987 interviews
• Conclusion of the Hong Kong anti-money laundering consultation confirms commitment to extending enforcement 
• The New Guideline on Guilty Pleas: A Potential Source of Conflict Between Client and Adviser? 
• The HSE announces it is to Consult on Fee for Intervention Scheme Dispute Process
• The Tunisia Inquests
• Health & Safety Sentencing Guidelines - One Year on
• Down on the Farm
• Identification by DNA on moveable objects
• The Policing and Crime Act 2017
• R v Johnson: Smuggling into Prison
• When Politicians Meddle...
• The Draft 2017 Money Laundering Regulations
• FCA v. Macris: Who is identified in FCA investigation notices?
• The Cyber Threat to UK Business
• Deferred Prosecution Agreements - A Review
• Costs in Private Prosecutions
• What constitutes cheat? The Ivey Case
• The End of the ‘Directing Mind’ - Corporate Liability for Economic Crime
• Driving to Distraction
• Hong Kong’s FCA Hand Shake
• Article 4 of the Bill of Rights – slavery and servitude
• ‘America First’ and the potential implications for Hong Kong and the wider world
• HKSAR v Luk Kin Peter Joseph and another – an analysis
• Judicial interventions during a trial – the Dayaram appeal
• No Wrong Turn in Hong Kong – an analysis of the Chan Kam Shing decision
• Will Hong Kong Revisit the offence of misconduct in public office by legislation in 2017?
• Unpicking Newton Hearings in Health and Safety Prosecutions
• Judgment of the High Court clarifies the extent of the SFC’s duty of disclosure
• Orlando Pownall QC represents jailed city worker Ke Xu accused of "deliberately" refusing to surrender seized software worth millions of pounds
• Defending Private Prosecutions
• Proving Propensity via Allegations of Bad Character
• Checklist for Out of Time Appeals on Jogee Grounds
• Confiscation Update - Piercing the Corporate Veil
• The Independent Review of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Handling of Non-Recent Sexual Offence Investigations Alleged Against Persons of Public Prominence
• The Rights of the Victim v the Defendant: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?
• Rethinking the Enforcement Function of the SFC
• The ‘Fraud Exception’ in Summary Judgment Applications: Zimmer, Universal and Arrow ECS Norway
• Private Prosecutions
• HKSAR v Deborah Annells: Prolific Offending and Regulatory Shortcomings
• Turning Financiers into Launderers: What do They Need to Know
• Insider Dealing - A Tightening of the Noose
• Successfully Resisting an Interim Order Extension
• R (SSP Health Ltd) v Care Quality Commission
• Post-Montgomery Consent Guidance for Surgeons – Information Must be Tailored to the Needs of the Individual Patient
• Responding to a Tragedy
• Squier v GMC
• Hindmarch v NMC
• Data Protection and Regulation
•  Control of Premises, Section 4 HSWA
• Credit For Guilty Plea: An Update
• Setting Fines in Uncertain Times: The Corporate Identity Crisis
• Alton Towers and the Application of the Health and Safety Sentencing Guidelines
• R v Johnson and Others - Joint Enterprise After Jogee
• Strengthening Tax Avoidance Sanctions and Deterrents
• Are Deferred Prosecution Agreements Company Friends or Foe?
• Political Corruption in the Turks & Caicos Islands and Legal Professional Privilege in Office
• New Anti-VAT Fraud Measures: Joint and Several Liability Revisited
• Business Needs to up its Game as Cyber-Attacks Are Here to Stay
• Developments in Deferred Prosecution Agreements
• Do Tom Hayes’ confiscation proceedings reveal a softening approach towards defendants by the Courts?
• PSA v GMC and Igwilo [2016] EWHC 524 (Admin)
• A New Approach to Expert Evidence?
• R (on the application of Sheila Adam) v the General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 3378: separating the ‘managerial’ from the ‘clinical’
• Death in State Detention?
• Changes to Dental Regulation: what does the future hold?
• O v NMC [2015] EWHC 2949
• Changes at the GMC: What you need to know
• The GMC's New Sanctions Guidance: more detail but no improvement
• Changes to the Criminal Procedure Rules
• Condemnation – The Harsh Reality
• The CMA in 2016: sights set by senior lawyer
• EU Commission's Action Plan on Terrorist Financing: a further step up in the Labyrinth
• Information Commissioner seeks to allay business fears on data transfers to the US
• An update on 'R v R'
• Corporate Prosecutions
• Principle Trumps the “Reality of the Matter” in Confiscation Appeal
• Money Laundering & Exchange Controls
• Is this the end of policy driven decisions?
• Sentencing for Robbery
• Disclosure in Document Heavy Cases & Abuse of Process
• On 21 December 2015, the Court of Appeal upheld Tom Hayes’ conviction, but reduced his sentence from 14 to 11 years
• Deferred Prosecution Agreements
• The Unlawful Acquisition of Cultural Property in Europe and its Restitution
• Behind the headlines: Seeking the truth behind sex grooming cases
• Leveson’s illiberal legacy?
• The New Criminal Procedure Rules: amendments of substance or form?
• Prosecution bad character argument leaves an unpleasant smell
• Sentencing Council Guidelines for Offences of Theft
• Feeling Trapped? Shall I stay or shall I go now?
• They Think It's All Over…It Is Now. Or is it? Terminating Rulings In The Crown Court
• Religion, Tolerance & Freedom - What Private Views Can A Teacher Express?
• Will Proposed Pharmacy Law Changes Help The Medicine Go Down?
• New Guidance From The GDC - Insight, Candour And A Whole Lot More
• New Evidence On Appeal - A More Relaxed Approach?
• Dishonesty After Kirschner: Is the Ghosh Test on its way out?
• The Fair And Effective Markets Review: Recommendations For Further Legislative And Regulatory Change
• Disclosure Failure: The Court Of Appeal Make It Plain That Compliance With CPR Is Critical
• Paying For The Privilege?
• The Truth And Nothing But The Truth – The CMA And Online Reviews
• The Offside Trap: FIFA Scandal Underlines Importance of New EU Money Laundering Directive
• Practice: Obtaining And Using An Intermediary
• Character: The Good, The Bad And The Somewhere In-between
• In The Hands Of The Jury
• Operation Elveden: A Sting In The Tail?
• What Is The British Bill Of Rights And Will There Be One?
• The Impact Of The Recent Case Of Manning On The Page Count Battle
• Confiscation Regime Toughened Up
• Confiscation Regime - Case Update
• Exceptional Inquest Funding Left To Incoming Government
• Death At Work: Christopher Gillespie Reflects On The Lessons Of A Recent Case
• How Safe A Haven Is The United Kingdom?
• The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015
• The Court Of Appeal Threatens More Loss Of Time Orders For Hopeless Appeals
• Judge Alone Trials: Time For Change?
• Proposed Reforms To Pre-Charge Police Bail
• Say You Are Sorry, And Mean It - The Role Of Apologies In The New GMC Indicative Sanctions Guidance
• Female Genital Mutilation: The First Prosecution And The Way Ahead
• R v National College For Teaching And Leadership (2014) EWHC 4351 (admin)
• The Morecambe Bay Report
• The Use Of Court Judgments In Professional Disciplinary Proceedings: R v General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 299 (Admin)
• A Question Of Motive?
• Penny Ann Lavis v Nursing & Midwifery Council (2014) EWHC 4083 (Admin)
• Supreme Court Decision In Eastenders / First Stop Wholesale v HMRC
• Phillip Ivey v Genting Casinos UK Limited
• R v Evans & Others
• POCA Update
• Life In The City: Another Day, Another Scandal
• European Brand Trading (EBT) v Commissioners of HRMC (2014) UK UT0026 (TCC)
• Developments In The Investigation And Prosecution Of Cartel Offences
• Determined deterrence: What next?
• Confiscation orders: A lesson for prosecutors
• A bitter pill to swallow: The GSK bribery investigation
• Widening the scope of corporate criminal liability: A new offence of failure to report economic crime
• Trial by jury, time to think again?
• Regulating foreign exchange markets: The financial stability board's latest report
• Wasted costs orders against prosecuting bodies: Some good news for privately paying defendants
• Criminal sanctions for market abuse to be expanded
• The proceeds of crime act 2002: Is it fit for purpose?
• Regulation regulation regulation: The new gold standard?
• The FCA investigates additional benchmarks
• Court of appeal rules that financial ombudsman service awards are binding on consumers
• Further arrests by SFO in LIBOR manipulation investigation
• SFO seeks a further £19m on top of £32m budget to fund its operations
• Date confirmed for the introduction of deferred prosecution agreements
• The financial ombudsman service: Growing in presence and not to be overlooked
• Prosecuting bankers under the banking reform act 2013: Political puff or criminal clout?

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• Government Rejects Treasury Committee's Recommendation That A Single Law Enforcement Agency Tackle Economic Crime
• The Online Safety Bill
• The Economic Crime Act 2022…A Headache For The Kleptocrats?...
• The rejected defence: a comprehensive overview Sawati v General Medical Council [2022] EWHC 283 (Admin)
• How many misconduct charges does it take to make serious misconduct? Ahmedsowida v GMC [2021] EWHC 3466 (Admin)
• Freedom of expression and the IOT: White v GMC [2021] EWHC 3286 (Admin)
• Article 2 and children in care: R (Boyce) v HM Senior Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool [2022] EWHC 107 (Admin) (21 January 2022)
• Directing the jury: R (Ginn) v HM Senior Coroner for Inner London [2022] EWHC 28 (Admin)
• “He’s checking his list; he’s checking it twice.…”
• Greenwashing – a Minute to Midnight?
• Government Responds to Coroner Service Inquiry Report: what changes to the inquest process can we expect?
• Creeping unfairness and remote hearings at the General Dental Council
• Complainant Bad Character in Disciplinary Proceedings
• An end to non-professional professional misconduct?
• Joy Dove v HM Assistant Coroner for Teesside and Hartlepool [2021] EWHC 2511 (Admin)
• Maintaining High Professional Standards: Procedural fairness and categorisation
• Testosterone Guinea Pigs and lex mitior - Salazar v USADA
• The Pandora Papers – Leaks, Loopholes and Lethargy
• From the ODT to OMG: Reaction to and an analysis of the recent takeover of Newcastle United FC
• R v Morahan [2021] EWHC 1603 (Admin) - Article 2 in Inquests: Revisited, Restated and Clearly Explained
• The Building Safety Bill: A Sea Change
• The Building Safety Bill and Fire Safety
• The Health and Safety Executive, Workplace Safety and our Return to the “Old” Normal
• Work Injuries and Ill-Health: Notable Statistics and Trends
• Private Prosecutions and the Need for Compelling Reasons Not to Issue a Summons
• Summonses & Settlements: A Road Map Through the Thicket
• [Dr] No risk of dissipation - Les Ambassadeurs Club Ltd v Yu
• New Sentencing Guidelines for unauthorised use of a trade mark by individuals and organisations
• Christopher Coltart QC considers the legal rulings made in the course of The FA v Daniel Sturridge
• Technology & Strategic Export Controls
• Court of Appeal warns advocates to take care where life sentences and determinate sentences are imposed at the same time – Narita Bahra QC & Stacy Stroud
• Cryptocurrency – As the CPS prepares for a surge in fraud, the FCA begins to regulate
• Gavin Irwin and Merry van Woodenberg explore recent developments in the field of financial and trade sanctions
• Deceptively simple - or simply deceptive? The dangers of over-complicating misconduct allegations – and over-simplifying reasons
• Denials, insight and sanction – the effect of denials on sanction
• Assessing credibility and the limits of demeanour – Khan v GMC [2021] EWHC 374 (Admin)
• Review or rehearing? Sastry & Okpara v GMC and the difference between s. 40 and s. 40A
• Factual findings made by the criminal court: Achina v General Pharmaceutical Council [2021] EWHC 415 (Admin)
• An expert free for all: Bux v GMC [2021] EWHC 762 (Admin)
• Are work related Covid 19 deaths going unreported?
• Sanctions for supporter disorder loom over the big six in the wake of the doomed European Super League project.
• The Court of Appeal restates a robust approach to secondary parties in homicide cases.
• ‘Big Tech Beware’
• SANCTIONS FOR RACIST ABUSE - Brian O'Neill QC and Paul Renteurs consider whether there is a role for the criminal law in stamping out racial abuse on the field of play.
• Fraud during the pandemic: might the government amend its Online Safety Bill?
• Cycling in turmoil?
• ‘We are what we do’: NatWest in the dock
• Costs – further implications in private prosecutions
• The competing rights of women in sport
• Insolvencies, Pensions and Prosecutions
• Remote hearings and dishonesty
• Conditional Discharges in regulatory proceedings
• When does inappropriate behaviour in the workplace amount to harassment?
• Interfering with the Tribunal’s discretion?
• Medical notes: a presumption of accuracy?
• The Identification Principle in the 21st Century - Chris Gillespie looks at the Law Commission's remit in its review of corporate criminal liability.
• Does Sport have a problem with Human Trafficking?
• Regulating the fast fashion industry: what does the future hold?
• The increased risks of work-related stress
• The Fatal Incident
• Developments in the Cannabis Regulatory Field
• 2020: The Year in Review
• Brexit Means Brexit? The Private Prosecution of Foreign Defendants in the Post Covid and Post Brexit World
• Private Prosecutions and the Public Interest
• Recent developments in costs
• Ivey and legal certainty in rate-rigging prosecutions
• Paul Renteurs considers whether new US anti-doping legislation is likely to lead to similar measures in the UK or elsewhere.
• R (on the application of Maughan) v. Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46
• DPA Update: Airline Services Limited
• Gavin Irwin reviews the recent surge in enforcement activity at the Financial Conduct Authority
• The Risks of Social Media in Sport
• POCA: A new future for the defendant's "benefit"
• Police officers and the use of force - are we really all missing the point?: R (Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Officer for Police Conduct [2020] EWCA Civ 1301
• A non-sexually motivated sexual assault?: GMC v Haris [2020] EWHC 2518 (Admin)
• The vexed question of Article 2: R (Peter Skelton and Elizabeth Skelton) v. The Senior Coroner for West Sussex and Others [2020] EWHC 2813 Admin
• A note of caution for sports agents, introducers and intermediaries: beware the implied “effective cause” term
• COVID-19 & Custody Time Limits: An Update
• R v Broughton Clarifying Causation in Gross Negligence Manslaughter
• Vigilante justice: is evidence obtained by ‘paedophile hunter’ groups admissible in criminal proceedings?
• Consent and fertility
• The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill
• The 2020 Disclosure Guidelines
• The Sentencing Code – Have we finally solved the Sentencing Jigsaw?
• Recent Proceeds of Crime Developments
• The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime and UK’s recent adoption of Magnitsky-type sanctions
• High Court gives timely reminder that demeanour is not everything: R (Dutta) v General Medical Council [2020] EWHC 1974 (Admin)
• UWOs and Serious Crime...Not Merely A Threat
• 2 Hare Court Sports Law Group: Athletics Round-Up
• 2 Hare Court Private Prosecution Newsflash
• 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Summer Newsletter
• HBOS: The final chapter?
• Sports' Books & Films: OUR TOP 10
• Reduction of mandatory suspensions for doping breaches: the strange case of Dr Johnson and the FA
• “New balls please”: Joe Marler takes the dark arts of rugby a step too far
• Doping and Arbitration in the time of Covid
• The importance of giving reasons
• The poison pen letter
• Safeguarding and extending time limits
• Replacing a Warning:
• When is strike-off all but automatic?
• Dishonesty re-visited
• What is a rare and exceptional circumstance?
• Why has there been a decline in fraud prosecutions?
• The Court of Appeal upholds the first Unexplained Wealth Order
• I’m frozen! The rise of the Magistrates’ Court freezing order
• Significant Judgment on Legal Advice Privilege Delivered by Court of Appeal in Civil Aviation Authority v R (on the application of Jet2.com Ltd) [2020] EWCA Civ 35
• Billions: Airbus and the future of DPA’s
• Anonymity Before Charge: Important Changes
• Football and Racism
• The strict test of the reasonable precautions defence where a prohibited substance is administered unintentionally
• WRU v Robert Howley – preserving the integrity of the game
• Breaches & Bungs
• To Infinity and beyond – the Upper Tribunal confirms that an underlying supply in order to claim input tax and that the principles in Teleos and Kittel are not the same.
• Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC") issue statement regarding disclosure and transparency
• The New SRA Standards and Regulations: a StaR is Born
• Corporate Transparency and Register Reform
• Investigating complex crime whilst restraining assets: ‘reasonable time’ v ‘practical realities’
• Corporate Intelligence: Strategic friend or foe?
• SFO Shuts Down Investigation into Libor Rigging
• Article 6 and compulsory production orders: Volaw Trust and Corporate Services Ltd and its Directors and others v The Office of the Comptroller of Taxes and another (Jersey)
• Serious Fraud Office v Serco Geografix Limited [2019] 7 WLUK 45
• No Go v Bojo
• Re Somaia and the Recovery of Costs in Enforcement Proceedings in the High Court
• Increasing Regulation of Private Prosecutions
• Investigatory Powers in Private Prosecutions: Hurdles and Opportunities
• Thakrar and the Ramifications for Private Prosecutors
• Unprecedented: Adverse Inferences in Regulatory Proceedings
• Court of Appeal Takes a Swipe at “Culture of Adjournment” Approach in Regulatory Proceedings
• A Tale of Two Leaks
• Ensuring the Reliability of Expert Witnesses in Criminal Cases
• SRA Developments in 2019
• Lacking Integrity - The Waters Re-Muddied in Adetoye v The Solicitors Regulation Authority
• Sastry v General Medical Council [2019] EWHC 390 (Admin)
• Blakely v GMC [2019] EWHC 905: Deny, Deny, Deny (But Try to Show Insight)
• Case Commentary: Maguire [2019] EWHC 1232 (Admin);
• R (Maughan) v Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2019] EWCA Civ 809:
• The Sentencing Council’s impact assessment shows an increase in fines imposed on individuals and organisations of all sizes following the introduction the Definitive Guideline on Sentencing on Health and Safety Offences, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety & Hygiene Offences
• Faltec Europe Ltd v Health and Safety Executive [2019] EWCA Crim 520
• Government Consultation on Legal Aid for Families at Inquests
• Guidance from the Court of Appeal in Sentencing Linked Organisations for Health & Safety Cases: R -v- NPS London Ltd [2019] EWCA Crim 228
• Andrew Left v Securities & Futures Commission & Market Misconduct Tribunal
• EL KAROUT and NMC, [2019] EWHC 28 (Admin)
• The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism v DPP
• Jurisdiction: Substantial Measures and Relevant Events
• The Man Who Wasn’t There: Private Prosecutions, Extradition and Interpol
• The Impact of Tactical Decisions on Parallel Proceedings
• Fingerprints and Forfeiture Without the Powers of the State
• Do I Have to Disclose Historic Convictions?
• Judging by Appearances
• Case Commentary: R v WINTERTON [2018] EWCA Crim 2435
• New Sentencing Guidelines for Manslaughter Offences Now in Force
• Challenging the Coroner: R (Parkinson) v HM Senior Coroner for Kent, Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust & Sameer Hijazi [2018] EWHC 1501 (Admin)
• Birmingham Pub Bombings - Coroner’s Decision on Scope Only Reviewable on Public Law Grounds
• What Can we Learn from the HSE Annual Statistics Report?
• Food Labelling in the Wake of the Death of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse
• DOTAS: Houdini’s Escape?
• Karoulla t/a Brockley’s Rock: Revenue Battered on Disclosure
• The Bar Council 2018 Law Reform Essay Competition: Not a Silver Bullet… but a Bullet Nonetheless
• Cold Turkey? The Dangers of Withdrawal in the Tax Tribunal
• PML: Beware Agreements to Settle an Appeal
• Final Closing Speech
• Bolton Reaffirmed – Again
• Mental Health and “Exceptional Circumstances”
• Intentionally Misleading but not Dishonest
• No More ‘Manna Found on the Desert Floor’ for Insiders: The s. 271(3) Defence Revisited
• Extraterritorial Reach of Section 2 Notices
• Transparency and Overseas Ownership of UK Property The Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill
• Raychaudhuri v GMC: Ivey rules?
• Challenge To First Unexplained Wealth Order Fails In High Court
• Defending Private Prosecutions: Lessons To Be Learned
• Mixed & Ulterior Motives
• Disclosure In Private Prosecutions
• Who is the Private Prosecutor?
• Restraint, Confiscation and Compensation in Private Prosecutions
• Private Investigations
• Frozen Assets, Third Party Rights and Disclosure
• Achieving Sea-Change: Criminal Disclosure Failures
• The Duty to Report Foreign Misconduct Findings
• Without Notice, Without Merit: how far would you go for your client?
• Dr G Arunachalam v GMC [2018] EWHC 758 (Admin): Can a Doctor Escape Erasure for Repeated Sexual Misconduct?
• R (Lewin) v Financial Reporting Council and others [2018] EWHC 446: When can a Panel Criticise Those Outside the Profession?
• “If it’s not Written Down, it Didn’t Happen”
• New Guidance issued after Coroner’s ‘cab rank’ policy on burial quashed by the High Court in R (Adath Yisroel Burial Society) v Senior Coroner for Inner North London [2018]
• It Takes One to Quango- Sick to Death of Regulation in the Healthcare Sector?
• Reasonable Excuse for Non-Compliance with Self-Assessment (Perrin v HMRC)
• Hong Kong Newsflash: Trade Sanctions and Export Licensing
• Special Police Services and the Tractor Boys
• Financial Fair Play: Still All Bark and no Bite?
• Australian Ball-Tampering: Mob Justice or a Fair Cop?
• Consent and Society's Evolving Values Cannot Outweigh Public Protection
• The Golden Thread Survives Under the Modern Slavery Act
• Sentencing Guideline: Offensive Weapons and Bladed Articles
• Overarching Principles: Domestic Abuse
• Sentencing Guideline: Terrorism Offences
• An Update on the Enforcement Function of the Securities and Futures Commission
• Major Review of Meat Processing in the UK Launched by the FSA
• Enforcement Notices Post Chevron
• An Analysis of the Sentencing Process in HSE v Martin Baker Aircraft Ltd
• Impact of a death on fines for Health and Safety Offences [Whirlpool UK Appliances Ltd v R (Upon the prosecution of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Health and Safety) [2017] EWCA Crim 2186]
• Regulation 29(2)(A) VAT Rules 1995 ... The True Ambit of Discretion?
• I-AHHHH 35: There's Trouble Ahead
• Public Interest Immunity and the Tax Tribunal
• Disclosure and Fairness in Tax Appeals
• Remorse, Insight and Continued Denial – the Difficulty of Moving on after Sanction. Yusuff v General Medical Council [2018] EWHC 13 (Admin)
• PSA v NMC and X [2018] EWHC 70 (Admin)
• R (Clinton) v General Medical Council [2017] EWHC 3304 (Admin)
• Bye-bye Bijl
• Racial Discrimination by a Regulator: O’Connor v Bar Standards Board, 2017
• The Agreement in the Fury Case and the Vexed Question of the Burden and Standard of Proof for Athletes
• Nitrous Oxide - No Laughing Matter
• The Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) and Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Guidebook for Advocates on the Use of Statistical Evidence in Court
• Section 73 of SOCPA - What Happens When Terms Are Not Met?
• ‘Greater Threats to Society’ - The New Draft Guidelines for Terrorism Offences
• Driving Offences Which Cause Serious Injury or Death
• Self-defence and the Householder – Disproportionate Force May be Unreasonable Even in Defence of the Home
• HMICFRS Report Criticises Response to Modern Day Slavery
• Suspension or erasure? High Court rules in professional misconduct case (General Medical Council v Stone)
• Cross-examining expert witnesses; A Masterclass
• Inquests and Public Inquiries: Differences in Scope
• A view on the Sentencing Council’s Draft Guidelines for the Offence of Manslaughter in the Health & Safety Context
• Reasonable foreseeability after R v Rose
• “Exercising Restraint?”
• Newcastle United Football Club and Others v HMRC: A Backwards Step in Relation to Search Warrants?
• The Right to Silence is Not Yet Silent
• The SFO Survives the Latest Political Reshuffle
• Financial Sanctions: A Minefield for Business
• GMC v Theodoropoulos [2017]EWHC 1984(Admin)
• The Impact of an Interim Order on Sanction
• General Medical Council v The Queen (on the application of Dr Iheanyi Chidi Nwachuku) [2017] EWHC 2085 (Admin)
• General Medical Council v Jagjivan & PSA [2017] EWHC 1247 (Admin)
• Doherty v NMC [2017] EWCA Civ 1344
• Differentiating Dishonesty
• Legislative Overhaul for the NMC: Consolidation and Expansion
• The Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme: Trading pending appeal
• Is Dishonesty the Best Policy?
• R (on the application of Hely-Hutchinson) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2017] EWCA Civ 1075
• Comply or Fail
• A Question of Jurisdiction or Questionable Jurisdiction?
• Coming Soon, A New Data Protection Act for the United Kingdom
• Doli Incapax and Historic Sexual Offending
• Positive developments in third party funding of arbitrations
• Competition matters exclusively within the jurisdiction of the Competition Tribunal
• Coutts Hong Kong fined by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority
• Thefaut v Johnston [2017] EWHC 497:
• Lack of integrity in disciplinary proceedings: two recent conflicting authorities
• General Medical Council v Chopra [2017] EWHC 819 (Admin)
• A Scottish twist to Enemuwe
• When is “misconduct” a sanction?
• Craig v Farriers’ Registration Council [2017] EWHC 707 (Admin)
• The regulation of private lives
• Day v Health Education England [2017] EWCA Civ 329
• General Medical Council v Banerjee: ‘Lesson in not leaving it too late’
• General Optical Council v Clarke [2017] EWHC 521 (Admin): Retirement reduces risk to the public
• Representation in section 2 CJA 1987 interviews
• Conclusion of the Hong Kong anti-money laundering consultation confirms commitment to extending enforcement 
• The New Guideline on Guilty Pleas: A Potential Source of Conflict Between Client and Adviser? 
• The HSE announces it is to Consult on Fee for Intervention Scheme Dispute Process
• The Tunisia Inquests
• Health & Safety Sentencing Guidelines - One Year on
• Down on the Farm
• Identification by DNA on moveable objects
• The Policing and Crime Act 2017
• R v Johnson: Smuggling into Prison
• When Politicians Meddle...
• The Draft 2017 Money Laundering Regulations
• FCA v. Macris: Who is identified in FCA investigation notices?
• The Cyber Threat to UK Business
• Deferred Prosecution Agreements - A Review
• Costs in Private Prosecutions
• What constitutes cheat? The Ivey Case
• The End of the ‘Directing Mind’ - Corporate Liability for Economic Crime
• Driving to Distraction
• Hong Kong’s FCA Hand Shake
• Article 4 of the Bill of Rights – slavery and servitude
• ‘America First’ and the potential implications for Hong Kong and the wider world
• HKSAR v Luk Kin Peter Joseph and another – an analysis
• Judicial interventions during a trial – the Dayaram appeal
• No Wrong Turn in Hong Kong – an analysis of the Chan Kam Shing decision
• Will Hong Kong Revisit the offence of misconduct in public office by legislation in 2017?
• Unpicking Newton Hearings in Health and Safety Prosecutions
• Judgment of the High Court clarifies the extent of the SFC’s duty of disclosure
• Orlando Pownall QC represents jailed city worker Ke Xu accused of "deliberately" refusing to surrender seized software worth millions of pounds
• Defending Private Prosecutions
• Proving Propensity via Allegations of Bad Character
• Checklist for Out of Time Appeals on Jogee Grounds
• Confiscation Update - Piercing the Corporate Veil
• The Independent Review of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Handling of Non-Recent Sexual Offence Investigations Alleged Against Persons of Public Prominence
• The Rights of the Victim v the Defendant: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?
• Rethinking the Enforcement Function of the SFC
• The ‘Fraud Exception’ in Summary Judgment Applications: Zimmer, Universal and Arrow ECS Norway
• Private Prosecutions
• HKSAR v Deborah Annells: Prolific Offending and Regulatory Shortcomings
• Turning Financiers into Launderers: What do They Need to Know
• Insider Dealing - A Tightening of the Noose
• Successfully Resisting an Interim Order Extension
• R (SSP Health Ltd) v Care Quality Commission
• Post-Montgomery Consent Guidance for Surgeons – Information Must be Tailored to the Needs of the Individual Patient
• Responding to a Tragedy
• Squier v GMC
• Hindmarch v NMC
• Data Protection and Regulation
•  Control of Premises, Section 4 HSWA
• Credit For Guilty Plea: An Update
• Setting Fines in Uncertain Times: The Corporate Identity Crisis
• Alton Towers and the Application of the Health and Safety Sentencing Guidelines
• R v Johnson and Others - Joint Enterprise After Jogee
• Strengthening Tax Avoidance Sanctions and Deterrents
• Are Deferred Prosecution Agreements Company Friends or Foe?
• Political Corruption in the Turks & Caicos Islands and Legal Professional Privilege in Office
• New Anti-VAT Fraud Measures: Joint and Several Liability Revisited
• Business Needs to up its Game as Cyber-Attacks Are Here to Stay
• Developments in Deferred Prosecution Agreements
• Do Tom Hayes’ confiscation proceedings reveal a softening approach towards defendants by the Courts?
• PSA v GMC and Igwilo [2016] EWHC 524 (Admin)
• A New Approach to Expert Evidence?
• R (on the application of Sheila Adam) v the General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 3378: separating the ‘managerial’ from the ‘clinical’
• Death in State Detention?
• Changes to Dental Regulation: what does the future hold?
• O v NMC [2015] EWHC 2949
• Changes at the GMC: What you need to know
• The GMC's New Sanctions Guidance: more detail but no improvement
• Changes to the Criminal Procedure Rules
• Condemnation – The Harsh Reality
• The CMA in 2016: sights set by senior lawyer
• EU Commission's Action Plan on Terrorist Financing: a further step up in the Labyrinth
• Information Commissioner seeks to allay business fears on data transfers to the US
• An update on 'R v R'
• Corporate Prosecutions
• Principle Trumps the “Reality of the Matter” in Confiscation Appeal
• Money Laundering & Exchange Controls
• Is this the end of policy driven decisions?
• Sentencing for Robbery
• Disclosure in Document Heavy Cases & Abuse of Process
• On 21 December 2015, the Court of Appeal upheld Tom Hayes’ conviction, but reduced his sentence from 14 to 11 years
• Deferred Prosecution Agreements
• The Unlawful Acquisition of Cultural Property in Europe and its Restitution
• Behind the headlines: Seeking the truth behind sex grooming cases
• Leveson’s illiberal legacy?
• The New Criminal Procedure Rules: amendments of substance or form?
• Prosecution bad character argument leaves an unpleasant smell
• Sentencing Council Guidelines for Offences of Theft
• Feeling Trapped? Shall I stay or shall I go now?
• They Think It's All Over…It Is Now. Or is it? Terminating Rulings In The Crown Court
• Religion, Tolerance & Freedom - What Private Views Can A Teacher Express?
• Will Proposed Pharmacy Law Changes Help The Medicine Go Down?
• New Guidance From The GDC - Insight, Candour And A Whole Lot More
• New Evidence On Appeal - A More Relaxed Approach?
• Dishonesty After Kirschner: Is the Ghosh Test on its way out?
• The Fair And Effective Markets Review: Recommendations For Further Legislative And Regulatory Change
• Disclosure Failure: The Court Of Appeal Make It Plain That Compliance With CPR Is Critical
• Paying For The Privilege?
• The Truth And Nothing But The Truth – The CMA And Online Reviews
• The Offside Trap: FIFA Scandal Underlines Importance of New EU Money Laundering Directive
• Practice: Obtaining And Using An Intermediary
• Character: The Good, The Bad And The Somewhere In-between
• In The Hands Of The Jury
• Operation Elveden: A Sting In The Tail?
• What Is The British Bill Of Rights And Will There Be One?
• The Impact Of The Recent Case Of Manning On The Page Count Battle
• Confiscation Regime Toughened Up
• Confiscation Regime - Case Update
• Exceptional Inquest Funding Left To Incoming Government
• Death At Work: Christopher Gillespie Reflects On The Lessons Of A Recent Case
• How Safe A Haven Is The United Kingdom?
• The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2015
• The Court Of Appeal Threatens More Loss Of Time Orders For Hopeless Appeals
• Judge Alone Trials: Time For Change?
• Proposed Reforms To Pre-Charge Police Bail
• Say You Are Sorry, And Mean It - The Role Of Apologies In The New GMC Indicative Sanctions Guidance
• Female Genital Mutilation: The First Prosecution And The Way Ahead
• R v National College For Teaching And Leadership (2014) EWHC 4351 (admin)
• The Morecambe Bay Report
• The Use Of Court Judgments In Professional Disciplinary Proceedings: R v General Medical Council [2015] EWHC 299 (Admin)
• A Question Of Motive?
• Penny Ann Lavis v Nursing & Midwifery Council (2014) EWHC 4083 (Admin)
• Supreme Court Decision In Eastenders / First Stop Wholesale v HMRC
• Phillip Ivey v Genting Casinos UK Limited
• R v Evans & Others
• POCA Update
• Life In The City: Another Day, Another Scandal
• European Brand Trading (EBT) v Commissioners of HRMC (2014) UK UT0026 (TCC)
• Developments In The Investigation And Prosecution Of Cartel Offences
• Determined deterrence: What next?
• Confiscation orders: A lesson for prosecutors
• A bitter pill to swallow: The GSK bribery investigation
• Widening the scope of corporate criminal liability: A new offence of failure to report economic crime
• Trial by jury, time to think again?
• Regulating foreign exchange markets: The financial stability board's latest report
• Wasted costs orders against prosecuting bodies: Some good news for privately paying defendants
• Criminal sanctions for market abuse to be expanded
• The proceeds of crime act 2002: Is it fit for purpose?
• Regulation regulation regulation: The new gold standard?
• The FCA investigates additional benchmarks
• Court of appeal rules that financial ombudsman service awards are binding on consumers
• Further arrests by SFO in LIBOR manipulation investigation
• SFO seeks a further £19m on top of £32m budget to fund its operations
• Date confirmed for the introduction of deferred prosecution agreements
• The financial ombudsman service: Growing in presence and not to be overlooked
• Prosecuting bankers under the banking reform act 2013: Political puff or criminal clout?

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  • Gavin Irwin successfully defends company director in £5million VAT evasion
  • Marios Lambis QC becomes first Professional Discipline barrister to be appointed QC
  • Martin Heslop QC’s client aquitted of Murder at Manchester Crown Court
  • James Buchanan successfully defends director of roofing company
  • HM Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Will Martin and Grace Forbes successfully appeal £1m confiscation order
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes New Tenant Madeleine Wolfe
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes New Tenant
  • Gavin Irwin and Sarah Przybylska act in ‘UK’s biggest ever’ banknote counterfeiting case
  • Merry van Woodenberg acts for FCA in first prosecution of market manipulation offences under the Financial Services Act 2012
  • Husband and wife team convicted of human trafficking and controlling prostitution
  • Draft Terms of Reference for Covid 19 Inquiry Finally Published
  • Nikita McNeill appears in Inquest into the death of Corrie McKeague
  • Sophia Dower’s client acquitted in extraordinary case of kidnap by fraud
  • Privacy for suspects under investigation – Bloomberg LP v ZXC
  • Neelam Gomersall acts for deputy headteacher acquitted of assaulting a 10-year-old student
  • Nikita McNeill instructed in Review into the SFO’s conduct of the Unaoil case
  • Marios Lambis Successfully Defends General Practitioner
  • Sarah Przybylska and Tom Day appointed Recorders for the South Eastern Circuit
  • Conspiracy to defraud trial results in conviction
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes New Tenant Richard Heller
  • Hannah Thomas acts for prominent anti-lockdown activist charged with breaching Coronavirus Regulations by protesting during lockdown
  • Congratulations to Marios Lambis, Gudrun Young & Nneka Akudolu on their Queen’s Counsel Appointments
  • Christmas Opening Hours
  • Mark Graffius QC and Grace Forbes instructed in EncroChat Conspiracy to Murder
  • Mark Graffius QC and Richard Davies obtain verdict of Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Christmas Common Murder Case
  • Nneka Akudolu prosecutes defendant convicted in poisoning case
  • Gudrun Young successfully acts for Intensive Care Consultant accused of sexual assault
  • Jack Gilliland acts for social worker before Fitness to Practise Committee at Social Work England
  • Grand Canyon helicopter crash – Gudrun Young represented family of groom at the inquest of the 5 friends who were killed
  • Gudrun Young successfully acts for Dentist accused of sexual assault in Fitness to Practice Hearing before the General Dental Council
  • The 6th edition of Rook & Ward on Sexual Offences Law and Practice has been published. Fiona Robertson co-authored the chapter on DNA evidence
  • A rare Murder verdict and a CPS inquiry ordered by the court
  • Complete acquittal in historic child sexual abuse trial
  • Rebecca Erkan-Bax’s client acquitted of multiple counts of rape, assault by penetration and battery
  • Chambers & Partners UK 2022 Rankings Released
  • Another Fraud case collapses due to expert witnesses and disclosure failings
  • 2 Hare Court are looking forward to exhibiting at the Bar Council’s Pupillage Fair 2021
  • Mark Graffius QC leads Gudrun Young defending a man charged with murder and attempted murder at the Central Criminal Court
  • Martin Hicks QC, Chris Foulkes and Gavin Irwin acted for two former Quindell directors investigated by the SFO and which has now concluded without criminal charges
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC and Howard Watkinson act in $8 billion corruption case
  • Beaconsfield Coroner halts inquest for police to re-open criminal investigation
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 UK 2022
  • Alison Levitt QC Appointed Circuit Judge
  • Alison Levitt QC’s Independent Review report published
  • IICSA report concludes that child sexual abuse has been found in most major UK religions
  • Neelam Gomersall’s client acquitted of s18 wounding with intent and s20 unlawful wounding after alleged street glassing
  • Marios Lambis and Gavin Irwin both shortlisted in Chambers UK Bar Awards 2021
  • Noise Abatement Notice quashed on appeal: Michael Rawlinson appearing
  • Rebecca Erkan-Bax’s client acquitted of rape and attempted rape
  • Nneka Akudolu prosecutes Kadian Nelson for offences of rape and kidnap of a 13 year old girl
  • Tom Day acts for international restaurant group in licensing application
  • Fiona Robertson appointed Treasury Counsel Monitoree
  • Angus Bunyan appears for the SFO in two Deferred Prosecution Agreements approved on 19 July 2021
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Lewis MacDonald, instructed by Howard Kennedy, act in private prosecution for Supreme
  • The Times | Lawyer of the week: Kate Blackwell QC
  • Rob Rinder awarded MBE
  • Daniel Morgan Inquiry
  • Jermaine Baker Public Inquiry commences
  • Narita Bahra QC writes for Counsel Magazine ‘Disclosure: coming to a screen near you’
  • Narita Bahra QC Accepts Master of the Bench Invitation
  • Gavin Irwin’s client acquitted in Salford ‘A-Team’ connected trial
  • Defendant accused of murder – Crown accept guilty plea to manslaughter by reason of loss of control: sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Pret cleared at Bristol Crown Court
  • Alison Levitt QC and Chris Foulkes appointed in Independent Review of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
  • Court of Appeal quashes Post Office convictions in historic judgment
  • Section 51 procedure does not require presence of defendant – R v Umerji [2021] EWCA Crim 598
  • Community Benefit Society, represented by Alexandra Tampakopoulos, has appeal allowed by Court of Appeal against sentence for Health and Safety offence.
  • Martin Heslop QC and Merry van Woodenberg’s client acquitted of murder
  • Homicide convictions upheld and limits of the principle of Overwhelming Supervening Act emphatically restated by the Court of Appeal
  • Peter Lownds’ client acquitted on direction of the judge in major conspiracy to supply cocaine trial
  • Racially aggravated assault of a blind Complainant at the “Magic Mike” show – Sophia Dower acts for client in this acquittal
  • Nneka Akudolu’s client found Not Guilty in multi-handed £3m conspiracy to supply heroin
  • Towuaghantse v GMC [2021] EWHC 681 (Admin) Coroner’s findings, independence of experts and registrant denials: this case is not one to put on the “read later” pile
  • Acquittal for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC in historic manslaughter charge
  • CrPR 36.15 (Reopening determinations in the CACD) and the perils for litigants in person
  • North Yorkshire Police Sergeant acquitted, Michael Rawlinson defending
  • International conspiracies to import and supply drugs, firearms and money laundering – Narita Bahra QC & Hannah Thomas instructed to defend
  • Defending EncroChat
  • Narita Bahra QC and Harry Bentley instructed to defend in a cross cultural relationship Murder
  • Two men convicted of Bis’s murder
  • “Overhauling” sentencing The Police Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes New Tenants
  • Forensic Science – codes of practice and joint statements
  • Narita Bahra QC and Harry Bentley’s positive engagement with the opposition, in a terrorism trial, results in a just outcome.
  • David Whittaker QC defends bank compliance officer against allegation of money laundering
  • Clean bowled – Eynsham Cricket Club’s appeal dismissed by the Court of Appeal
  • Admissibility of EncroChat communications in criminal proceedings
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC acts in landmark EncroChat decision
  • Lancashire Detective Constable cleared of Gross Misconduct at disciplinary hearing, Michael Rawlinson defending
  • When is an expert not an expert?
  • Leon Kazakos QC and Merry van Woodenberg’s client acquitted of murder and manslaughter
  • Sophia Dower successfully appeals sentence in Court of Appeal
  • Gudrun Young acts for Dentist completely exonerated in Fitness to Practice Hearing before the General Dental Council
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC and Howard Watkinson act for SFO in respect of guilty pleas to the winning of multi-billion dollar contracts in the UAE
  • Fiona Robertson appears in Reading terrorism case
  • Eight members of 2 Hare Court appointed to SFO panels of external counsel
  • Oliver Glasgow QC appointed First Senior Treasury Counsel
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Jack Shah
  • Christmas Opening Hours
  • Sophia Dower’s client given suspended sentence in case of Causing Death by Dangerous Driving
  • Beckwith v SRA – Private lives restored?
  • Narita Bahra QC instructed to defend in a Drill Rap Murder
  • Women In Criminal Law Members Notification
  • Gavin Irwin explores the new criminal offences in the National Security and Investment Bill currently before parliament
  • 2 Hare Court Awarded Crime Set of the Year 2020 by Chambers UK
  • David Whittaker QC and Harry Bentley appear in final Operation Leopard trial
  • 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Autumn Newsletter
  • Nneka Akudolu secures unanimous convictions in three consecutive rape trials
  • Mark Graffius QC and Fiona Robertson secure Not Guilty verdict in Lockdown murder
  • Announcement
  • Chambers & Partners UK 2021 Rankings Released
  • Leon Kazakos QC & Rebecca Erkan-Bax’s client acquitted of murder, attempted murder and wounding with intent
  • Gudrun Young successfully represents former Blue Peter presenter and TV celebrity John Leslie
  • Mirchandani – some good news for Private Prosecutors
  • Justice Select Committee Report Published – Safeguards in Private Prosecutions
  • Zubair Ahmad QC secures an acquittal at Leeds Crown Court for a 20 year old female charged with Murder and Conspiracy to Rob
  • Michael Rawlinson successfully defends South Yorkshire Police Constable at gross misconduct hearing
  • 2 Hare Court are looking forward to exhibiting at the Bar Council’s Pupillage Fair 2020
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 UK 2021
  • Narita Bahra QC wins the AWA Awards 2020 Professions Category
  • 2 Hare Court shortlisted in 2 Categories for The 2020 Chambers Bar Awards
  • Boohoo publishes the Levitt QC Independent Review
  • Marios Lambis presents to ARDL ‘The Legality of Virtual Hearings’ – Thursday 24th September at 6pm
  • Narita Bahra QC and Harry Bentley instructed to defend in Decapitation Murder at the Central Criminal Court
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Christopher Gillespie appear at Manchester Arena Inquiry
  • Narita Bahra QC and Harry Bentley secure acquittals for defendant dubbed “The Master Mind” in three multi handed drugs conspiracies involving encrypted telephones.
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Kate Blackwell QC
  • Mark Graffius QC and Sophia Dower secure a Not Guilty verdict in historic murder trial
  • Alexandra Tampakopoulos appointed to Attorney General’s Panel
  • “Chambers is sad to announce the death of William Denny CBE QC”
  • Novichok inquest to examine possible responsibility of Russian state for the death of Dawn Sturgess
  • A new guideline for sentencing offenders with mental disorders, developmental disorders and neurological impairments has been published by the Sentencing Council
  • Iain Daniels writes article for The Stage on Hate Crime Bill
  • Tax Avoidance 2021 – The Finance Bill
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Iain Daniels
  • Gavin Irwin speaks on the Sanctions Regime: 2020 webinar with LexisNexis Practice and Risk Compliance
  • “Paying the penalty – abuse of process and the standard of proof in Finance Act 2007 Penalties”
  • Newsflash from the Private Prosecution Group
  • No strike-off for doctor found to have had a sexually-motivated conversation with someone he believed to be a child
  • 2 Hare Court Criminal Regulatory Newsletter
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Lewis MacDonald, instructed by Ian Ryan of Howard Kennedy, act for client cleared in the Baker McKenzie case at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
  • Judicial Appointments for Michael Rawlinson: Employment Judge and First Tier Regulatory Chamber.
  • Sarah Przybylska and Julia Faure Walker have been appointed Treasury Counsel
  • Narita Bahra Q.C shortlisted for Asian Women of Achievement Award
  • IICSA begins country’s first virtual public inquiry hearings
  • Permission to apply for judicial review granted in challenge to new terrorism law
  • Professional Discipline Group Newsletter – May 2020
  • Student misconduct allegations and the right to a fair hearing – Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC co-writes blog with Sandra Paul of Kingsley Napley
  • Chamber’s announces the death of W. John Jones
  • Gavin Irwin represents Chinese national in application for Account Freezing Orders (‘AFrOs’) by the NCA during the public health emergency
  • Sports Law Group Newsletter Spring Edition
  • Covid-19 News
  • Acquittal of Spanish model in Ministry of Defence money laundering
  • Martin Hicks QC secures suspended sentence for seafood trader who smuggled £53million of endangered eels from UK to the Far East over 2 year period
  • Jonathan Rees QC and Will Martin secure acquittal of boy accused of murder during a drugs robbery
  • Marios Lambis concludes Inquest into detention centre death
  • Michael Rawlinson successfully defends Nottinghamshire Police Constable at gross misconduct hearing
  • Christopher Coltart QC acts for FA in successful appeal in Daniel Sturridge case
  • Grenfell Tower Inquiry hearings resume
  • Narita Bahra QC & Harry Bentley defend in Cardiff murder
  • Professional Discipline Group Newsletter
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Rebecca Erkan-Bax
  • Business Crime Group Newsletter
  • Brendan Kelly QC enjoys success following High Court trial in Northern Ireland
  • Costs in Private Prosecutions: A Landmark Decision
  • GDC and Attempted Murder
  • Jonathan Rees QC and Nneka Akudolu secure the conviction of Muhammad Rodwan following machete attack on a police officer
  • Sports Law Group Newsletter
  • Identifiable “flesh and blood officer” not required to issue self-assessment
  • Defendants sentenced in football bribery trial; prosecuted by Brian O’Neill QC, Julia Faure Walker and Merry van Woodenberg
  • Congratulations to Leon Kazakos & Mark Graffius on their Queen’s Counsel Appointments
  • IICSA publishes report on Children Outside the UK
  • Merry van Woodenberg acts for Compliance Officer acquitted of involvement in Legal Aid Fraud
  • Martin Hicks QC secures early acquittal in Uber Eats Driver Murder Trial
  • Fiona Robertson secures acquittal in joint enterprise rape
  • Nneka Akudolu’s client found not guilty of the rape of ‘unconscious complainant’
  • Brian O’Neill QC, Julia Faure Walker and Merry van Woodenberg secure convictions in football bribery trial at Southwark Crown Court
  • Court of Appeal (Civil Division) rules no higher duty of care on public bodies conducting litigation
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC defends in case dismissed from the Central Criminal Court today.
  • Narita Bahra QC and Laura Stephenson defend in international drug conspiracies prosecuted by The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency
  • Christopher Coltart QC acts for Investment Fund Manager in Private Prosecution
  • Joshua Carey in Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Success
  • 2 Hare Court shortlisted in 2 Categories for The Legal 500 UK Awards 2020
  • Nneka Akudolu Defends Client Aquitted in Car Park Gang Rape Trial
  • Narita Bahra QC & Will Martin Instructed To Defend In A Department For Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Prosecution
  • Narita Bahra QC instructed to defend in a triple Murder Trial
  • Craig Ferguson secures the Acquittal of Sprinkler Contractor After a Trial Lasting 5 Weeks
  • Narita Bahra QC successfully defended in £11M Money Laundering Trial
  • Acquittal of Lead Defendant in £25M Money Laundering Excise Fraud at Southwark Crown Court
  • The Delta Arrangement: Disguised Remuneration
  • Business Crime & Financial Services Group Newsletter
  • Nikita McNeill Represented Coroner to Quash Inquest Following Murder Conviction
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures First Ever Extension of a Provisional Statement for a Large Casino
  • Mark Graffius and Merry van Woodenberg Defend in Complex International Film Industry Fraud Case at Southwark Crown Court
  • Gudrun Young Secures Acquittal in Historic Rape Case
  • Brian O’Neill QC, Julia Faure Walker & Merry van Woodenberg Prosecute Football Bribery Trial at Southwark Crown Court
  • A Cautionary Tale for Experts by Narita Bahra QC
  • Private Prosecution Group Newsletter
  • Tom Day secures acquittal of Director of Approved Inspector Company for Fire Safety Order offences
  • Sexual misconduct: it’s worse if you’re a nurse
  • New Notification of Death Regulations: Filling A Lacuna in the Law
  • Alison Levitt QC is announced as Visiting Professor to Goldsmiths
  • Merry van Woodenberg’s client acquitted in ICO prosecution for unlawful obtaining of private data
  • Annual Regulatory Crime Seminar 2019
  • Narita Bahra QC, Criminal Lawyer of the Year 2019
  • Peter Lownds and Grace Forbes Represent Businessman Accused of Million Pound “Pay Day Loan” Fraud
  • Michael Rawlinson secures reinstatement of Police Sergeant at Police Appeals Tribunal hearing
  • £7.3m Money Laundering Confiscation Order for Former Goldman Sachs Trader
  • Leon Kazakos Shortlisted for Crime Junior of the Year in the Chambers UK Bar Awards
  • Gudrun Young Represents Former Blue Peter Star John Leslie
  • Narita Bahra QC Shortlisted for ‘Women in Law Award – 100 Years’ and ‘Criminal Lawyer 2019’ in the Asian Legal Awards
  • Alison Levitt QC Appears as Guest on BBC Radio 4 to Discuss Misconduct in Public Office
  • Merry van Woodenberg Successfully Defends Man Charged with Sexual Offences Against a Four and a Five Year Old
  • Mark Graffius secures Not Guilty verdict in alleged Gangland Attempted Murder
  • Nneka Akudolu Secures Conviction of Accountant and Former Maths Tutor for Serious Sexual Assaults Against Former Students Spanning Period of 23 Years
  • Gudrun Young Leading Sophia Dower Represent “Career Conman” Mark Acklom in Romance Fraud
  • Will Martin Represents The FA as Millwall FC Fined and Ordered to Implement Action Plan Following Racist Chanting by Supporters
  • Changes to Regulation of Healthcare Professionals
  • Howard Watkinson & Nikita McNeill Appointed to Attorney General’s Panel
  • Code for Private Prosecutors Published
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC Secures Acquittal for Client in 17 Count Indictment of Historic Rape
  • Vivienne Tanchel’s Client Acquitted of Conspiracy to Defraud and Money Laundering in Excess of £2million
  • Religion v Regulation – Do Facebook Posts About the “Wicked Act” of Homosexuality Bring the Profession into Disrepute?
  • No Go v Bojo – Divisional Court’s Reasoning for Quashing Issue of Summons Against Boris Johnson
  • Costs Against Private Prosecutor Upheld by Divisional Court, as Will Martin Successfully Represents Interested Parties in Judicial Review Proceedings
  • Murder Convictions in Woolwich Fire case – Julia Faure Walker Prosecutes
  • Tom Day Successfully Appeals Sentence in the Court of Appeal
  • “Inappropriate Protracted and Hostile Questioning” – From the Panel: Beard v General Osteopathic Council [2019] EWHC 1561 (Admin)
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC, Representing Bereaved Daughter and Sister in Inquest into Deaths of 2 Women, Establishes Failings by Police
  • Newsflash: ‘A Just and Fair Culture in Medicine’ Independent Review of Gross Negligence Manslaughter Publishes its Report
  • Gavin Irwin Avoids Imprisonment For Immigration Adviser
  • Last Orders! The Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme and Trading Pending Appeal
  • Fiona Robertson Challenges Murder Convictions Following Disruptions to Jury Deliberations
  • Alison Levitt QC appears on BBC Radio 4’s Law in Action to Discuss Private Prosecutions in the Wake of the Accusations Made Against Boris Johnson MP of the Crime of Misconduct in Public Office
  • Martin Hicks QC Secures Acquittal in ‘Attempt Murder’ Retrial Ordered by Court of Appeal
  • “I’m pretty sure I glanced at something”: Due Diligence in Instructing Experts
  • Tom Day and JMW Solicitors LLP Secure Minimal Confiscation Order in European Cocaine Conspiracy
  • JUSTICE Publishes Report on Prosecuting Sexual Offences
  • Martin Hicks QC and Leon Kazakos Successfully Halt Private Prosecution
  • Marios Lambis Represents GP at Inquest of Six-Year-Old Boy
  • Major Carbon Credit & Diamond Trial Collapses After Narita Bahra QC Exposes Fundamental Disclosure Failings
  • Mark Graffius and Nikita McNeill Appear in Complex MTIC Alchohol Fraud
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Begins Inquest into the Murders of Christine and Lucy Lee
  • Zubair Ahmad QC Represents Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Niece in National Crime Agency Investigation into Breaches of the Syria Sanctions
  • Upper Tribunal Rules Schedule 55 Self-Assessment Penalty Regime is Proportionate
  • CPR31 Disclosure for AWRS Appeals
  • Joshua Carey Obtains Permission to Appeal to the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in £350,000 Damages Claim
  • Gavin Irwin and Fiona Robertson Conclude Six Month, Cross-Border, Fraud and Money Laundering Trial
  • Hannah Thomas Appears in the Divisional Court
  • Newsflash: Inquest Update
  • IICSA Report Published into Church of England Failures
  • Regulatory Crime Spring Newsletter
  • Gang Members Sentenced for Murder of Suffolk Teenager: Oliver Glasgow QC and Sarah Przybylska Prosecute
  • Nikita McNeill Appears in Inquest into the Death of Bristol University Student
  • Michael Rawlinson Acts for The FA in Successful Misconduct Proceedings Brought Against Cardiff City FC Manager Neil Warnock
  • David Whittaker QC and Gudrun Young successfully defend 17 year old boy charged with attempted murder in knife attack
  • Andrew Colman Successfully Defends General Practitioner Facing 39 Allegations
  • Michael Hayton QC Successfully Represents Dr Bawa-Garba
  • Sophia Dower Secures Acquittal of Teacher Accused of Assaulting 12 Year Old Girl in Road Rage Incident
  • Update to the Criminal Practice Directions: 1 April 2019
  • Michael Rawlinson Secures Reinstatement of PC Following Police Appeals Tribunal Hearing
  • Andrew Colman Successfully Defends Vaser Liposelection™ Practitioner Facing 28 Allegations
  • Andrew Hurst Appointed Circuit Judge
  • ‘Causation, Statistics and Survivability’
  • Chambers Welcomes New Tenants
  • 2 Hare Court Receives Certificate of Recognition for Well-being
  • Cantor Fitzgerald Should have Known its Transactions Were Connected with Fraud
  • Martin Hicks QC and Scott Ivill Secure Acquittal in Highly Publicised ‘Exorcism’ Killing Trial
  • The Relevance of Linked Organisations in Sentencing Corporate Defendents
  • Sweeping Changes to UK AML and Sanctions Regimes
  • Narita Bahra QC Marks First 100 Years and Becomes 1st Female Criminal Silk to Begin the “Lethbridge Gloves” Tradition on Silks Day
  • David Whittaker QC Successfully Defends Businessman Charged with Money Laundering
  • Brian O’Neill QC Secures Acquittal of Austrian Financier in Privately Prosecuted Fraud
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes 2 New Tenants
  • Jonathan Rees QC and Will Martin Secure Conviction of 6 Men for ‘Monstrous’ Acid Attack on Toddler
  • Gudrun Young Secures No Case to Answer in Controversial First Prosecution for ‘Transgender Hate Crime’
  • Jonathan Rees QC Secures Life Sentence for Boy Who Violently Murdered 14 Year Old Viktorija Sokolova
  • Private Prosecution Newsletter
  • Julia Faure Walker Appears as Junior Counsel to IICSA’s Children Outside the UK Investigation
  • Chris Gillespie Successfully Defends GP Accused of Improper Sexual Relationship with Former Patient
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Acts for SFO in Petrofac Corruption Plea
  • Michael Rawlinson Successful in Misconduct Defence of Detective Inspector
  • Congratulations to David Whittaker, Zubair Ahmad & Narita Bahra on Their Queen’s Counsel Appointments
  • Reasonable Excuse Revisited
  • Two City Businessmen Sentenced for Operating a “Clever and Sophisticated Fraud on Investors”: Angus Bunyan Prosecutes
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Accepts Master of the Bench Invitation
  • Nikita McNeill Represents Travel Company in Inquest into Death Following Balcony Fall
  • Narita Bahra and Tom Day Secure Acquittals in a Royal Mail Private Prosecution of a Multi Million Pound Fraud
  • Regulatory Crime Winter Newsletter
  • Sarah Przybylska Secures Conviction of Jamie Acourt on Drug Trafficking Charge
  • Litigation Privilege in the Board Room: WH Holding Ltd-v-E20 Stadium LLP [2018] EWCA Civ 2652
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Accepts Master of the Bench Invitation
  • Tax Team Winter Newsletter
  • 2 Hare Court Receives Multiple Nominations in Legal 500 2019 Awards
  • Gudrun Young Successfully Defends Leading Feminist & Anti-Racist Campaigner Linda Bellos OBE in Private Prosecution
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Successfully Defends in Malicious Prosecution Claim
  • Angus Bunyan and Howard Watkinson Obtain 10 Convictions in £8m Vehicle Fraud
  • Sophia Dower Successfully Appeals Against TFL’s Decision to Revoke Uber Driver’s Private Hire Licence
  • Brendan Kelly QC & Vivienne Tanchel Secure Acquittal in North Sea Gas Corruption Conspiracy
  • Costs Order Successfully Secured Against Private Prosecutor for Improperly Commencing Criminal Proceedings
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC in success in Court of Appeal Civil Division
  • Successful Submission of no Case to Answer in Murder for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC
  • Head of White Collar Crime at Mishcon de Reya Joins 2 Hare Court
  • Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley Secure Acquittals in Series of International and National Drugs Conspiracies
  • Chambers & Partners UK 2019 Rankings Released
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 2018
  • Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley Secure Acquittal for Client Charged with Multi-Million Pound Conspiracy to Manufacture, Import, Export and Distribute Anabolic Steroids (Class C drugs)
  • Craig Ferguson Secures the Acquittal of Topcon Construction Ltd
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Leads for the Crown in Important Court of Appeal Decision
  • Tom Day has successfully overturned an order made by the Interim Orders Tribunal of the MPTS
  • Brian O’Neill QC Secures Acquittal in Long Running Civil Private Prosecution
  • Fiona Robertson Successfully Appeals Firearm Sentence
  • 2 Hare Court Members Shortlisted in Chambers Bar Awards 2018
  • Nikita McNeill appears in Article 2 Inquest following A&E death
  • Brendan Kelly QC Secures Acquittal in ‘Pack’ Murder
  • Brian O’Neill QC and Christopher Ware Secure Acquittal in Gangland Murder
  • Jonathan Rees QC & Will Martin Successfully Prosecute Delroy Forrester for Unlawful Killing of his 11 Year Old Great-Niece
  • Double Murderer Convicted
  • Narita Bahra Secures Acquittal for Javon Roach in Jeweller Murder
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Secures Acquittal in Victim Right to Review Case
  • Gudrun Young Successfully Defends GP Charged with 7 Counts of Sexual Assault
  • IICSA: Nikita McNeill Appears in Hearing into the Offending of Former Bishop of Gloucester Peter Ball
  • Martin Hicks QC Successfully Defends GP Accused of Defrauding 96 year old French Resistance Heroine
  • Suspended Sentence for Perverting the Course of Justice
  • Tobacco and Personal Use: The Assessment and Penalty
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Secures Acquittal in First Prosecution of a Far Right Organisation Since World War II
  • Gavin Irwin successfully represents Emergency Medicine Registrar at the Inquest of a 33 year old woman who died from a rare form of infection
  • Paul Renteurs Acts for The FA in Regulatory Proceedings Brought Against Ex West Ham Recruitment Director Tony Henry Over Comments Regarding African Players
  • Alex Tampakopoulos Represents the Family of a Challenger 2 Tank Commander, One of Two Crewmen Killed During a Live Firing Shoot at Castlemartin
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures Sympathetic Sentence for 63 yr Old Who Killed Her Father and Buried Him in Her Garden After Lifetime of Abuse
  • Gavin Irwin Averts Closure of School after Discovery of Weapons and £400,000 Cash
  • Narita Bahra appears on BBC Radio 4 to discuss Disclosure Failings
  • Largest ever privately prosecuted fraud
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC achieves settlement for UN Whistleblower after 15 year battle
  • HMRC Crack Down on VAT Evasion Offences
  • Naeem Mian QC represents man charged with encouraging acts of terrorism against Royal Family
  • Belhaj Litigation: UK Apologises over Libyan Dissident Treatment
  • Disclosure failings result in collapse of a multi million pound evasion of excise duty
  • Naeem Mian QC Secures Acquittal of 19 Year Old Boy for Murder
  • Acid Attacker Cleared of Murdering Nurse
  • Former Gurkha Lorry Driver Spared Jail After Fatally Knocking into Lord Taylor of Blackburn
  • Strong Warning Given as Judge Suspends Sentence for Juror Research
  • Andrew Colman Successfully Vindicates Internationally Renowned Consultant Surgeon
  • Christopher Coltart QC Appointed as a Sports Arbitrator with Sport Resolutions Ltd
  • Jonathan Kinnear QC Appointed as one of three new Disciplinary Tribunal Chairs by the ICAEW
  • Christopher Coltart QC is instructed to represent Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the centre of the Facebook data harvesting row
  • Brendan Kelly QC Successfully Represents International Rugby Player Paddy Jackson
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Michael Rawlinson
  • Naeem Mian QC Secures Conditional Caution for Youth Charged with Terrorism Offences
  • Laura Stephenson successfully Appeals against the Extradition of a Mother accused of grievous bodily harm in Hungary
  • Tax Spring Newsletter
  • Nikita McNeill appears in the public hearings for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
  • Gavin Irwin Represents Principal Conspirator in £37m ‘Copy-cat Website’ Fraud
  • Narita Bahra’s client cleared of Rape weeks after Sexual Assault Acquittal
  • Brian O’Neill QC and Sarah Przybylska win costs hearing following successful defence of Private Prosecution
  • Tom Day represents national company acquitted of Health & Safety Offence
  • Counterfeit Airbags Prosecution under the Trade Marks Act 1994
  • Inquest finds “Gross Failings” Contributed to Avoidable Death from Constipation
  • Peter Gray QC Successfully Represents Chevron North Sea Ltd in HM Inspector of Health & Safety v Chevron North Sea Ltd.
  • Naeem Mian QC secures acquittal of man charged with planning a Bombing Campaign on the UK Mainland
  • Jim Buchanan Appears for the London Borough of Croydon (LBC) for Breach of Section 2 HSWA
  • Finsbury Park Attacker Darren Osborne Sentenced to Life with a Minimum Term of 43 Years
  • HHJ Perrins slams CPS for wholesale disclosure failings as Narita Bahra and Fiona Robertson’s client walks free
  • Tom Day Appears for ex Council Chairman charged with 12 Fire Safety Breaches Following Rutland Street Fire
  • Crime Team Winter Newsletter
  • Narita Bahra’s client Valentin Krzyzyk cleared of Sexual Assault after Police fail to hand over vital CCTV evidence
  • Terrorism Cases: Where Sanctions Designations Apply in Tandem with Criminal Proceedings
  • Julia Faure Walker and Sarah Przybylska appointed Treasury Counsel Monitorees
  • Liam Allan Rape Trial Collapse
  • Romanian Extradition: Stasis Maintained
  • Sarah Przybylska and Lewis MacDonald prosecute boiler room Fraud targeted at elderly
  • GMC has Dropped its Appeal and JR against a Doctor’s Restoration to the Register
  • Will a gambler change Hong Kong Law?
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Jonathan Kinnear QC
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in Legal 500 UK Awards 2018
  • Dishonesty and the GMC: the first case after Ivey v Genting Casinos
  • Andrew Radcliffe QC Secures Acquittal in Op Amazon After 10 Month Trial
  • Howard Watkinson and Joshua Carey successfully represent HMRC in multi-million pound Appeal
  • 11 Convictions Upheld in Rolf Harris Appeal
  • Narita Bahra appears for Sky News discussing the UK Harvey Weinstein Allegations
  • Discrimination and the GMC – Michalak v GMC [2017] UKSC 71
  • The Proper Approach to Restoration Hearings
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC and Vivienne Tanchel Secure Acquittal of 18 Year Old Boy for Murder
  • 2 Hare Court Receives Record Rankings in Chambers & Partners UK 2018 Guide
  • Gosh! Where has Ghosh gone?
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes Will Martin
  • Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering Bill Published
  • Quinn Hawkins instructed in ‘Serial Killer’ Providenciales Murder
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked as Top Tier Set & Leading Set in Multiple Practice Areas in Legal 500 2017
  • The Lammy Review: A Conversation
  • Deaconal investigation success for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC
  • Tax Newsflash
  • 3 members appear for the Rooney family in biggest ever prosecution of ‘slavery’ offences – Operation Pottery
  • Brendan Kelly QC represented Suzie Best in her application for a Horse Training Licence
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC’s Multi-Millionaire Client Acquitted of Multiple Historic Allegations of Rape
  • Harry Bentley Secures Acquittal for Alleged Fraudulent Headteacher who ‘raided school funds’
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC Successfully Opposes Application to Quash Acquittal for 1984 Murder
  • Narita Bahra secures acquittal for Ex-Universal Music Media Mogul
  • Narita Bahra Discusses The NCA Intelligence-Sharing Scheme Blocking Sex Offenders Entering SE Asia on Sky News
  • Narita Bahra & Harry Bentley Represent Client Involved in Bedford Shooting
  • Narita Bahra leading Stephen Donelly acted for a client who was charged with an array of Money Laundering, Fraud, supply of class A drugs and cultivation of class B drugs offences
  • Fiona Robertson’s Playwright Client Acquitted of Groping Young Actress
  • CAS Upholds Life Bans for Top Russian Athletics Officials: Jonathan Laidlaw QC Acts for IAAF
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in Chambers UK 2017 Bar Awards
  • His Honour Judge Julian Nicholas Goose QC Appointed Justice of the High Court
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures Acquittal of Notorious Gangland Murder
  • Train driver cleared of endangering passenger safety on a railway
  • 2 Hare Court Welcomes 2 New Tenants
  • Fiona Robertson’s client found not guilty on all historic sex charges
  • Christopher Geering’s Client Acquitted and Awarded Record Costs Against the ACCA
  • Sallie Bennett Jenkins QC secures costs against CPS following a failed prosecution under the Victim Right to Review scheme
  • Stalking Victims Being Put at Risk by Police Failings – Christopher Ware Instructed by HMIC to Advise on Harassment and Stalking Report
  • Fiona Robertson’s client acquitted of all historic rape charges
  • Ben Rich represents Isle of Wight Council in the successful prosecution of term-time holiday dad, Jonathan Platt
  • Tom Day secures licence for Cliff Richard concert
  • Narita Bahra represents the The Sikh Channel at Office of Communications Regulatory Tribunal
  • Nicholas Hall & Tom Day represent family of man murdered by mentally ill neighbour previously deemed as ‘no immediate risk’
  • Mark Graffius and Nikita McNeill defend in £46million wine fraud
  • James Buchanan secures acquittal of excavator driver on charges of manslaughter by gross negligence, perverting the course of justice and Section 2 HSWA.
  • Narita Bahra defends in a £78 Million Money Laundering Conspiracy
  • Tyrone Belger and Lewis MacDonald represent defendant accused of defrauding the Metropolitan Police
  • Tube Bomb Plotter Damon Smith Sentenced to 15 Years
  • London Legal Walk 2017
  • Narita Bahra Secures Acquittal for a Holistic Healer Charged with Sexual Offences
  • GMC v Dr X – Dishonesty Does Not Automatically Require A Sanction
  • Tom Day represents GP following fire that killed pensioner
  • SFO v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd: internal investigations under threat
  • Christopher Ware acts for the FA in Anti-Doping case
  • Narita Bahra Defends Client in Multi Million Pound Drugs Conspiracy
  • Peter Lownds in Successful Sentencing Appeal for ‘Cocaine Pilot’
  • Peter Lownds Represents Senior Banker in $3.5M Banking Corruption Case
  • Jonathan Rees QC prosecutes London Tube bomb accused Damon Smith
  • Narita Bahra acts for Barclays Banker in UK’s biggest Cyber Fraud Operation Kadenza
  • Narita Bahra and Joshua Carey represent Director in European Union Match Funding Conspiracy to Defraud in excess of £1million
  • Christopher Coltart QC acts for the FA in disciplinary proceedings brought against Joey Barton for betting on football matches
  • Successful prosecution of Slovakian people trafficking ring by Sarah Przybylska
  • Queensbury Legal Charity Boxing 2017 – Gallery
  • Nikita McNeill presents case against headteacher dismissed from London school for altering pupils’ exam papers
  • David Whittaker represents building company cleared of charges under Health & Safety Legislation Following a “Work at Height” Death
  • Michael Hayton QC represents Essar Oil Limited following high risk explosion
  • Queensbury Legal 2017
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC assigned Vice-Chair for CBA Mentoring Scheme
  • Businessmen cleared in Nationwide Heroin Conspiracy
  • Deprivation of Liberty – the saga continues
  • Praise for Sallie Bennett–Jenkins QC from Director of Refuge, Sandra Horley CBE
  • Marios Lambis successfully defends doctor accused of fraud
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC secures non custodial sentence for indecent images
  • Chris Gillespie considers the Sentencing Council’s Definitive Guideline on Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty Plea
  • David Whittaker Successfully Defends Partner of TOWIE Star in Drug Prosecution
  • Leon Kazakos Successfully Represents Police Officer
  • Lewis MacDonald presents case against Carrie-Anne Nash over death of 10-year-old
  • Nikita McNeill successfully represents nurse accused of causing or contributing to death of elderly patient
  • Brian O’Neill QC successfully represents Rohan Ince
  • Joshua Carey successful in resisting Permission to Proceed in the High Court
  • When a Mistake is not Misconduct
  • Narita Bahra’s client cleared of a forty six count Indictment containing grooming, rape and sexual assault allegations
  • Successful prosecution of HBoS corruption trial by Brian O’Neill QC and Angus Bunyan
  • Chris Foulkes in largest UK deferred prosecution agreement
  • Joshua Carey appointed to the Attorney-General’s Civil C Panel
  • Orlando Pownall QC represents jailed city worker Ke Xu accused of “deliberately” refusing to surrender seized software
  • Peter Gray QC (Scotland) Joins 2 Hare Court
  • Joshua Carey represents train driver accused of endangering passenger
  • Alex Tampakopoulos Successfully Represents Property Development Company at Newton Hearing
  • Congratulations to Naeem Mian on his Queen’s Counsel Appointment
  • Tom Day Represents Independent Hospital at Inquest into the Death of a 77-year Old Man
  • Narita Bahra instructed in Multi-Million Pound Tax and Duty Evasion Fraud.
  • Serial Killer Stephen Port Sentenced to Life Imprisonment For Murdering Four Men
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC Appears Before the British Horseracing Authority
  • Naeem Mian wins Criminal Lawyer of the Year Award 2016
  • Ben Rich Defends Nurse Accused of Falsifying Temperature Record of Colleague Who Got Ebola
  • Fiona Robertson’s Client Avoids Custody for his Part in Cannabis Ring
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC Appears for the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF)
  • Michael Hayton QC Represents Multi National Chemical Company in Fatality Prosecution
  • Michael Hayton QC elected Leader of the Northern Circuit
  • Tom Day Represents National Private Security Company
  • 2 Hare Court Ranked in Chambers & Partners UK 2017 Guide
  • 2 Hare Court Awarded Professional Discipline Set of the Year 2016 by Chambers UK
  • 2 Hare Court Awarded Crime Set of the Year in Legal 500 UK 2017
  • Zubair Ahmad Called to The Bar of NI
  • Sallie Bennett-Jenkins & Harry Bentley Begin Trial for PC Semple Murder
  • David Howker QC
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in The Legal 500 UK 2017 Awards
  • Vivienne Tanchel Defends GP in the Inquest of the Death of Ivy Atkin
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Christopher Ware Successfully Defend in a Private Prosecution
  • Knife-Wielding Pensioner acquitted
  • Congratulations to our new tenants following successful pupillages
  • Chris Gillespie Represents Corporate Client at Zane Gbangbola Inquest
  • Brian O’Neill QC and Angus Bunyan Prosecute Bank Corruption Trial at Southwark CC
  • Christopher Ware Represents a Company Director on a Conspiracy Allegation
  • Brian O’Neill QC prosecutes on case of fraud and corruption at HBOS
  • David Whittaker acts for care-home company prosecuted under new regulations following death of patient
  • Narita Bahra Acts for Defendant Involved in £113 Million Money Laundering Cyber Scam
  • David Whittaker, Craig Ferguson & Christopher Gillespie Conduct a Mock Health & Safety Trial
  • 2 Hare Court Shortlisted in Chambers UK Bar Awards
  • Fiona Robertson Secures Acquittal For Client Charged With GBH After Nightclub Brawl
  • Christopher Ware Acts For ACCA Against An Accountant Convicted In £2.6m Fraud
  • David Howker QC 1959-2016
  • Non Custodial Sentence for Nurse Convicted of Fraud
  • Narita Represents Ring Leader in Conspiracy to Supply Firearms
  • Tom Day Secures Licence for Bryan Adams Performance at the Betley Concerts
  • Narita Represents High Profile Solicitor
  • Defendants accused of cheating Her Majesty’s customs of £500,000 avoid immediate custodial sentence
  • Naeem Mian Makes Closing Submissions on Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures case
  • Naeem Mian and Robert Dacre Secure Acquittal in Terrorism Trial
  • Jonathan Rees QC Prosecutes Optometrist Honey Rose found Guilty of Manslaughter by Gross Negligence
  • Commercial Scale Cannabis Factory Bust
  • Tom Day represents a GP in relation to the death of a young woman who suffered from anorexia nervosa
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC and Craig Ferguson represent first company to be sentenced for Corporate Manslaughter since the new Definitive Guideline came into force
  • Narita secures acquittal for client charged with Money Laundering in excess of £500,000
  • Success for Sallie Bennett-Jenkins in a disclosure battle with CPS in Victims Right to Review case together with an apology from the CPS for her client
  • Christopher Geering Successfully Represents Doctor Charged with Sexually Assaulting Colleague
  • Scott Ivill’s Client Cleared of 11 Separate Allegations including alleged Acts and/or Omissions that Contributed Towards a Patient’s Death
  • Rights of the Victim v the Defendant: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?
  • Jonathan Rees QC Prosecutes Attacker Found Guilty of Attempted Murder after ISIS-inspired Leytonstone Tube Attack.
  • Richard Huckle Given 22 Life Sentences
  • Angus Bunyan Prosecutes Defence Firm Directors Who Bribed US Businessman to Land a £5m Military Supply Deal
  • Brian O’Neill QC prosecutes ‘Britain’s worst ever paedophile’
  • Pre-Trial Disclosure Issues in Claim Subjected to Closed Material Procedure Direction
  • Brian O’Neill QC Prosecutes Two Teenagers for Knife Murder
  • Chris Gillespie successfully challenges production order for medical records
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC secures rehearing before British Horseracing Authority
  • Michael Hayton QC successfully represented Premier League footballer in his appeal against a curfew order
  • Oliver Glasgow QC & Sarah Przybylska make closing submissions on behalf of the Jersey Law Officers’ Department at the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry
  • Martin Heslop QC secures acquittals for client with allegations of historic rape and sexual violence
  • David Howker QC represents mentally ill ‘Road Rage’ man accused of murder
  • Marios Lambis defends doctor convicted of prolonged fraud against his employing NHS hospital
  • Craig Ferguson defends doctor cleared of manslaughter by gross negligence
  • Orlando Pownall QC and David Whittaker client acquitted of insider dealing
  • Special Immigration Appeals Commission finds refusal of British citizenship unfair
  • Verdicts in the Hillsborough Inquest
  • Fiona Robertson secures appeal against sentence 
  • Prosecution of man for murder of elderly neighbour
  • Narita Appears in Historic Child Grooming Case
  • Personal Assistant to James Bond producer acquitted of Fraud and Theft
  • Fiona Robertson’s Client Acquitted on Appeal of Rape
  • Transgender carer found guilty of murdering her MS-Suffering father
  • Martin Heslop QC secures acquittal of 20 year old in gang related South London stabbing
  • 2 Hare Court are pleased to announce the arrival of Mark Graffius
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC represents trainer before British Horseracing Authority
  • Killer of unborn child is jailed for life
  • Orlando Pownall QC and Gudrun Young defend in Adam Johnson trial
  • Christopher Ware acts for the FA against three players for breaching FA conduct rules
  • Vivienne Tanchel’s client acquitted in LIBOR broker trial
  • Jonathan Laidlaw QC is listed as one of Britain’s 500 most influential individuals
  • Orlando Pownall QC and David Whittaker commence Operation Tabernula
  • Case of R v Michael Misick & 8 Others
  • Congratulations to Oliver Glasgow on his QC appointment
  • Leon Kazakos represents the first defendant in the case of Sebastiano Magnanini
  • Jonathan Rees QC secures convictions in child destruction case
  • Marios Lambis secures an acquittal for a doctor
  • Further finding of unacceptable professional conduct in Trojan Horse case
  • Narita Bahra and Harry Bentley Secure an Acquittal in the UK Revenge Attack Against the Followers of those who Burnt the Guru Granth Sahib in India
  • Brendan Kelly QC secures acquittal for a solicitor charged with Perverting the Course of Justice
  • Orlando Pownall QC and Jonathan Laidlaw QC successfully defend in Cairns Trial
  • Findings of misconduct in first Birmingham Schools Trojan Horse case
  • Oliver Glasgow appointed Senior Treasury Counsel
  • 2 Hare Court is an “exceptionally good set” that is home to “advocates of outstanding quality”
  • Stephen Brassington wins Chambers UK 2015 Professional Discipline award
  • Tom Day represents the FA over Arsenal’s breach of football agents regulations
  • Should Cartel Activity be a Criminal Offence in Hong Kong?
  • “Trojan Horse” Cases: 2 Hare Court Team Commence the First NCTL Hearings
  • Orlando Pownall QC & Jonathan Laidlaw QC Defend in Cairns Trial
  • 2 Hare Court are pleased to announce the arrival of Michael Hayton QC
  • Tesco Cash for Crash Insurance Fraud Conspiracy
  • 2 Hare Court nominated in 3 categories for the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2015
  • 2 Hare Court ranked top 5 for quasi-criminal Barrister rankings in the Legal 500 2015
  • Orlando Pownall QC and Zubair Ahmad successfully defend murder suspect at the Central Criminal Court
  • Orlando Pownall QC Represents Former Cricket Captain Accused of Perjury & Perverting the Course of Justice
  • Narita Bahra acts for client in Aylesbury Child Sex Ring Trial
  • Operation Cotton – Allegation of Conspiracy to Defraud
  • 2 Hare Court are shortlisted for ‘Chambers of the Year’ – Legal Awards 2015
  • Trevor Gibbon Fatally Stabs Neighbour in Two-Year Noise Row Revenge
  • Stage 1 Large Casino Licence Granted for Aspers in Southampton Royal Pier Development
  • Martin Heslop QC Secures Acquittals in Alleged Multi-Million Pound Class A Drug Smuggling Conspiracy
  • New GDC PCC & ISG Guidance
  • Teenager Charged with Acts of Terrorism and ‘Terror Grooming’
  • Christopher Geering successfully appeals the GMC’s decision to erase a doctor from the register
  • Category: Newsletters
    • 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Newsletter
    • 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Newsletter
    • 2 Hare Court Criminal Regulatory Group Newsletter
    • 2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Newsletter
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    • 2 Hare Court Criminal Regulatory Group Newsletter
    • 2 Hare Court Private Prosecutions’ Group Newsletter
    • 2 Hare Court Crime Group Autumn Newsletter
    • Business Crime & Financial Services Autumn Newsletter
    • Private Prosecution Newsletter
    • Professional Discipline Summer Newsletter
    • Criminal Regulatory Spring Newsletter
    • Crime Group Spring Newsletter
    • 2 Hare Court’s Sports Law Newsletter
    • Professional Discipline Winter Newsletter
    • SFC fine EFG Bank AG
    • Call for consistency across Coronial areas
    • Brexit Select Committee Publishes Sanctions Report
    • Publication of The Fourth Annual Chief Coroner’s Report for 2016 to 2017
    • What is a “Criminal Cause or Matter” and why does it matter?
    • As a $31m Crypto-Currency Heist is Revealed, is there a Wave of Crypto-Crime Litigation on the Horizon?
    • Nutanix – an Erosion of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination?
    • Bishop’s Review of Hillsborough Families’ Experiences Calls for Change Including Publicly Funded Legal Representation for Bereaved Families at Inquests
    • Hong Kong: Asia’s FinTech Hub
    • Regulatory Crime Newsletter
    • Business Crime & Financial Services Group Autumn Newsletter
    • Financial Sanctions: A Minefield for Business
    • Regulatory D-Day for Hong Kong’s Insurance Industry
    • Professional Discipline Autumn Newsletter
    • Tax Group Newsletter
• Category: Newsflash
  • Hillingdon Underground Station killers sentenced at Old Bailey
  • Now who is lacking insight?
  • Professional Standards Authority v HCPC and Wood [2019] EWHC 2819 (Admin) – Charging motivation and lies in investigation
  • Professional Discipline Summer Newsletter
  • Innocent Agents – Liable for Unpaid Duty but not Penalties?
  • Combatting a Culture of Adjournments?
  • Court of Appeal’s “Very Regrettable” Forced Hand Following Indictment Errors in Historic Sex Trial
  • R v Tas [2018] EWCA Crim 2603: manslaughter and joint enterprise post-Jogee
  • Litigation Privilege Restored by Court of Appeal in ENRC v SFO
  • No Presumption of Erasure: Bawa-Garba v GMC [2018] EWCA Civ 1879
  • Civil Standard for Suicides: R (Maughan) v HM Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2018] EWHC 1955 (Admin) (Leggatt LJ, Nicol J)
  • Newsflash: Sentencing Guidelines for Manslaughter Introduced
  • The Challenges of Challenging the Coroner: R (Parkinson) v HM Senior Coroner for Kent, Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust & Sameer Hijazi [2018] EWHC 1501 (Admin)
  • The Relevance of Retirement? General Optical Council v Clarke [2018] EWCA Civ 1463
  • Sentencing company Directors
  • The Duty of Candour: “its importance cannot be overstated”
  • Defending Directors: Hidden Gems in the Companies Act 2006
  • When is a “Reasonable Excuse” Reasonable?
  • Fresh OFSI Guidance for Importers and Exporters & Significant Iran Sanctions Developments
  • USA Rachets up Russia Sanctions – Will the UK follow?
  • Soft Drinks – Hard Times
  • A Money Laundering Directive Too Far?
  • FCA Enforcement Policy – Consultation Unveiled
  • Lack of integrity: A Useful Shorthand
  • When is an Expert not an Expert?