Racheal Muldoon hosted an all-day legal workshop alongside Mark Harrison, Head of Heritage Crime at Historic England. This high-profile event was held at Historic England’s London HQ on January 24th 2019. The programme centred on educating attendees about the importance of identifying cases as heritage crimes at the earliest opportunity, with the overarching aim of [...]
Richard Jory QC writes in the January 2019 edition of Counsel Magazine about the connection between gambling addiction and the commission of serious criminal offences. https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/gambling-addiction-and-its-connection-to-serious-offending
Professor Nicola Padfield QC, Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and long standing door tenant at Foundry Chambers, provides a detailed interview in the latest edition of Counsel Magazine. The article and interview can be read here: https://www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/interview-nicky-padfield-qc
Martin Cavanagh was today convicted of murder at the Central Criminal Court. He strangled his estranged wife, Sophie Cavanagh, having sent her a WhatsApp message begging to sleep with her one last final time for £100. He managed to persuade her to spend one last day with him by concocting a story that he was [...]
Michael Newbold, led by Jonathan Kinnear QC, was successful in the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in the case of Ahmed v Crown Prosecution Service [2018] EWCA Civ 2543 in which judgment was handed down on 15 November. Mr Ahmed was the subject of a £16m confiscation order and, following his failure to satisfy the [...]
Richard Jory QC, leading Lesley Bates of 23 Essex Street, prosecuted UKBF officer Simon Pellett and two others who had been involved in the importation of £3.4m worth of heroin and cocaine and numerous firearms. On 6th October 2017, in a joint operation between the National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police Service in the UK, [...]
Nick Dunham and Szilvia Booker, from Foundry Chambers, successfully prosecuted seven members of a gang who scoped out and held up, at gunpoint, staff at the HG Wells public house. Two lookouts, posing as customers, gave the others the go ahead to raid the premises, dressed in boiler suits, just before closing time on Sunday, [...]
Prosecution’s case collapses against client, represented by Szilvia Booker. Ragi Ali was accused of violent disorder by driving a vehicle into pedestrians and participating in a gang reprisal attack on the streets of Harrow
Three weeks ago, I concluded my final speech in a murder at the Central Criminal Court and was allowed to tell the jury at the end of it that, because of a longstanding previous engagement, I would not be able to return to the case. The longstanding previous engagement was my leaving the independent Bar [...]
Chambers is delighted to announce that Sophie Stannard has accepted an offer of tenancy following the completion of her pupillage. We are very pleased to welcome Sophie to chambers. Her website profile can be found here Sophie Stannard