Foundry Chambers’ New Pupils for 2024
NEWS Foundry Chambers is delighted to welcome our new pupils, Amber Pierce, Edita Memisi and Ginny Dearn. We hope that you will find the next twelve months an exciting and rewarding career path + Back to News
Foundry Chambers are delighted to be ranked again in the Legal 500 UK Guide 2025.
NEWS The 2025 edition of the Legal 500 Guide to the UK Bar was published last week. Chambers was delighted to have been globally recognised across its two main areas of practice being Crime (Tier 3) and Financial Crime (Tier 2), with members of chambers [...]
William Hughes KC Prosecutes West Wales School attack
NEWS William Hughes KC opens the Prosecution case in respect of a 14 year old girl charged with 3 allegations of Attempted Murder said to have taken place in April 2024 at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman/Bryn Aman School, Ammanford. The trial is expected to last [...]
More than a Match
NEWS It’s been a tremendous 23/24 Season for the Foundry-sponsored Abbey Youth Flamingos Under-8s Football team, with 17 wins and two draws out of 28 games. And perhaps even more surprising to learn that these stats were gained by being the only girls team in the whole league… [...]
Henry Gordon prosecutes dangerous arsonist sentenced to life imprisonment.
NEWS Henry Gordon prosecuted a defendant who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for arson with intent to endanger life together with multiple firearms and weapons offences. Planning his offending over a number of days, Ian Pitkin pleaded guilty after using petrol to set [...]
Richard Jory KC and Jessica Tate represent Independent Ambulance Association at the Covid-19 Inquiry
NEWS Richard Jory KC and Jessica Tate are instructed to represent the Independent Ambulance Association in Module 3 of the Covid-19 Inquiry, examining the impact of Covid-19 on the healthcare systems in the UK. This Module is scheduled to last for 10 weeks. Richard and [...]
Michael Birnbaum KC, Glyn Maddocks KC (Hon) and Rose Slowe act in landmark appeal to quash the 33 year old convictions of Oliver Campbell for murder and conspiracy to rob
NEWS Oliver Campbell, a vulnerable brain-damaged black youth, was convicted in 1991 of murder and conspiracy to rob an off licence in Hackney. The evidence against him was that the shooter had worn Oliver’s distinctive “British Knights” cap (which contained hairs that were not his [...]
Gabriella Lewis acts for Appellant in successful appeal against sentence at the Court of Appeal.
NEWS Leave was granted by the Single Judge, who ordered an expedited hearing before the Full Court. Gabriella successfully argued that the sentence of 38 months’ imprisonment, imposed for class A drug supply offences, was manifestly excessive and the sentence was reduced to 30 [...]
Foundry Chambers prosecutes and defends decade-long multi-million pound confiscation proceedings
NEWS The confiscation proceedings in the case of London Borough of Ealing v Ali Bahbahani set Foundry Chambers’ Ellis Sareen (prosecuting for the London Borough of Ealing) against Benjamin Waidhofer (instructed by Fadi Daoud at Lawrence & Co). The case began as long ago [...]
Paul Sharkey and Edward Gordon-Saker prosecute Just Stop Oil protestors jailed for M25 protest
NEWS Paul Sharkey and Edward Gordon-Saker prosecuted six defendants for causing a Public Nuisance arising out of their actions as part of a Just Stop Oil protest. During rush hour on the morning of 9 November 2022, Gaie Delap, Paul Sousek, George Simonson, Paul [...]