NEWS An exceptional 11 members of Foundry Chambers have been appointed to the Serious Fraud Office’s panels of external counsel, cementing its reputation as an outstanding chambers for advice and advocacy in cases involving complex financial crime. QC Panel Alexandra Healy QC, John McGuinness [...]
NEWS In the R v Rowlett [2020] EWCA Crim 1758 [2020] 12 WLUK 342, John McGuinness QC leading James Gwatkin appeared in the Court of Appeal for the appellant in an appeal against sentence concerning the legality of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO). [...]
NEWS Benjamin Waidhofer represented the first defendant in a multi-handed case of cannabis cultivation on a ‘commercial scale’. As counsel for the first defendant, he led the defence application to stay the proceedings as an abuse of process on the basis that the prosecution [...]
NEWS David Smith and Natalie McNamee have recently completed the prosecution of a case arising out of a shooting at Isleworth train station on 17th December 2018. Two defendants were convicted of attempted murder, and a third of attempted GBH, after one defendant shot the [...]
NEWS The Court of Appeal today rejected various grounds of appeal by two traders at Barclays Bank who were convicted for their part in the manipulation of the Euribor benchmark interest rate, against which over $150 trillion of financial products are referenced. In all, [...]
NEWS Congratulations to Daisy Kell-Jones and Toby Pleming on being called to the Bar, as announced in The Times today + Back to News
NEWS At a further case management today before HHJ Tregilgas-Davey at Harrow Crown Court, following defence representations for an age assessment and a positive NRM referral, the prosecution reviewed its case against a 15-year old Vietnamese migrant, represented by Miss Booker, who was kidnapped [...]
NEWS New Head of Chambers Alexandra Healy QC has been ranked as a leading silk in Band 1 for both Crime and Financial Crime in the Chambers & Partners 2021 guide and as a leading silk in the Legal 500. Described as displaying “excellent [...]
NEWS Chambers is delighted that Jason Sugarman QC has been recognised as a leading silk in Financial Crime in the Legal 500 2021 ‘Ability to master very complex cases in a swift fashion and distil the information to the client in a clear and [...]
NEWS ‘Natalie is a dedicated and hard-working advocate who is fiercely committed to the interests of her professional or personal client. She is incredibly intelligent and comfortable with complex financial and expert evidence.’ Legal 500 2021 + Back to News [...]