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Monthly Archives: 24th February 2017
39 Essex Chambers pick up award for Real Estate, Environment and Planning Set of the Year at the Legal 500 Awards
39 Essex Chambers picked up the award for Real Estate, Environment and Planning Set of the Year at the Legal 500 Awards 2017 on Thursday 23rd February. It is yet another… Read more »
James Strachan QC and Stephen Kosmin successful in a judicial review of the relationship of the Financial Conduct Authority and the Financial Ombudsman Service
James Strachan QC and Stephen Kosmin successfully defended the Financial Ombudsman Service in R (on the application of Full Circle Asset Management Ltd) v Financial Ombudsman Service Ltd [2017] EWHC… Read more »
Lisa Giovannetti QC successfully represents The Home Secretary – The Supreme Court upholds minimum income rule for non-European spouses
The Supreme Court has ruled that Government financial measures which impose an income threshold on British citizens and others settled here who want foreign spouses or partners to join them… Read more »
The Court of Appeal gives judgment in sex abuse claim
The Court of Appeal gave judgment today in JL v Archbishop Bowen and the Scout Association. The JL’s case at trial was that he had been abused by an older… Read more »
Jonathan Bellamy speaks to the Insurance Law Association, Singapore, on The Insurance Act 2015
Jonathan Bellamy gave a seminar to the Insurance Law Association, Singapore, in relation to The Insurance Act 2015 on Tuesday 14th February 2017. About this Seminar: The Insurance Act 2015 applies… Read more »
The Housing White Paper Seminar
Date & Time: Wednesday 29th March 2017 – 2pm till 5pm Venue: 39 Essex Chambers, 81 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1DD Cost: £50 (plus vat) For full information and booking… Read more »
Deok Joo Rhee QC becomes first Korean-Briton to be appointed Queen’s Counsel (The Korea Times)
A Korean-born British lawyer has been appointed a Queen’s Counsel (QC) for the first time in the country’s history. Deok Joo Rhee, a 43-year-old barrister in London, was one of… Read more »
A break for term-time holidays? (Solicitors Journal)
Fenella Morris QC and Anna Bicarregui consider the Supreme Court appeal on term-time holidays. Since 2013, maintained schools have only been able to grant parents leave to take their child… Read more »
Capacity, limitation and the Human Rights Act (AP (by his litigation friend, BA) v Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (Eleanor Grey QC – Lexis PSL)
Personal Injury analysis: Under what circumstances was it equitable to extend time? Eleanor Grey QC discusses the court’s decision in AP (by his litigation friend, BA) v Tameside Metropolitan Borough… Read more »
Housing White Paper: Fixing our broken housing market
On 7 February 2017, the Department for Communities and Local Government (“DCLG”) published its much trumpeted and long awaited Housing White Paper, together with a flurry of associated documents. The… Read more »
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