WEBINARS Please click here to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJQkPJdM_dI Sexual Offences Prevention Orders, Sexual Harm Prevention Orders and the case of owlett [2020] EWCA Crim 1758 Despite having existed for a number of years, the not-so-glamorous world of SOPOs and SHPOs have become a quagmire of mistakes. Many cases have appeared [...]
NEWS You are warmly invited to a Foundry Chambers seminar covering recent updates to the Modern Slavery Act 2015: How the Criminal Justice System balances the fine line between a person’s status as a victim and an offender now that the legal dust has [...]
NEWS Jason Sugarman QC of Foundry Chambers with the assistance of Rod Stone OBE of RS Legal Strategy Limited instructed by Dan Bodle, Marija Brackovic and Claudio Giammarino of Dentons (London and Milan) acted as an independent expert in the ENI/Shell corruption trial in [...]
NEWS James Waddington QC appeared for the Respondent in an appeal by Darren Say, an independent financial advisor, against his convictions for fraud by abuse of his position and fraudulent trading. The charges related to the spending by him of money allocated to SIPPs [...]
NEWS In passing a non-custodial sentence in the case of a young person convicted of a series of Category 2A robberies over a six week period leading up to Christmas 2020, counsel Szilvia Booker relied heavily on the findings of an expert in exploitation [...]
NEWS Chambers is sad to learn of the death of His Honour Patrick Curran QC. Patrick was not only a loyal Member of Chambers during our time at 9-12 Bell Yard, but also a good friend to us all. In 2007 he took an [...]
NEWS Ellis Sareen, instructed by Seema Parikh of MPR Solicitors, secured an acquittal for an 18-year-old amateur boxer from Woking charged with the attempted murder of his former sparring partner. The assiduous pursuit of disclosure from the prosecution revealed social media messages from the complainant which [...]
NEWS You are warmly invited to a Foundry Chambers seminar covering the following topics: The relationship and variances between SOPOs and SHPOs focusing on the landmark case of R v Rowlett[2020] Crim 1748 by counsel in the case John McGuinness QC & James Gwatkin The [...]
NEWS David Harounoff instructed by Mark Phillips of Phillips Osborne Solicitors, secured unanimous acquittals following an 8-day trial at Aylesbury Crown Court for a client charged with kidnapping and torturing complainant. The prosecution described offence at trial as similar to the infamous torture scene [...]
