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Having been shortlisted for five awards at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2024 we are delighted to have won the following two awards and for Chris Jeans KC to have received his ‘Lifetime Achievement’ award: Set of the Year Inquests... Read more
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In a judgment handed down by the Divisional Court on 6 July 2023 in R (Cabinet Office) v Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry [2023] EWHC 1702 (Admin), the Cabinet Office’s challenge to a notice issued by the Chair of... Read more
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Module 1 of the Covid-19 public inquiry has begun its oral hearings, looking into the preparedness for the pandemic. It will assess if the pandemic was properly planned for and whether the UK was adequately ready for that eventuality. The... Read more
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Permission to proceed with a judicial review has been refused following an oral hearing in a case concerning the necrophiliac David Fuller. The claim sought to challenge the independence of Sir Jonathan Michael who is currently carrying out a non-statutory... Read more
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The first hearings of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry commenced yesterday. Previously a non-statutory inquiry, the Inquiry was put on a statutory footing under the Inquiries Act 2005 on 1st June 2021, following the judgment of the Court of Appeal quashing... Read more
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On 27 July 2021 the Independent Inquiry published its report on the ‘Children in the care of Lambeth Council’ strand of the Inquiry. ‘Children in the care of Lambeth Council’ examined the scale and nature of the sexual abuse experienced by... Read more
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In R (Schofield) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWHC 902 (Admin) the Divisional Court (Singh LJ and Julian Knowles J) dismissed a root-and-branch challenge to the compatibility of the UK’s statutory ban on the admissibility of... Read more
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The COVID-19 pandemic is obviously relevant to those who act in the area of Inquests and Inquiries. There will inevitably be a dramatic rise in the workload of coroners and, ultimately, in the number of full inquests being heard. Due... Read more
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Julian Blake appeared in the application for permission for judicial review in relation to allegations of mistreatment at Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, which was the subject of a Panorama Programme entitled Undercover: Britain’s Immigration Secrets. The Claimants are claiming... Read more
