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Garden Court Chambers | Friday 31 May 2024

Garden Court Chambers celebrates 50th Anniversary

This year marks 50 years of Garden Court Chambers winning ground-breaking cases of constitutional importance.

Mediation | Tuesday 26 November 2024

Mediation Blog: Mandatory Mediation – The Rules They Are A-Changin’

David Watkinson continues to reflect on the impact of Churchill and considers the impact of the recent change in the CPR.

David Watkinson

Mediation | Monday 4 March 2024

Mediation Blog: Mediation in the Middle Ages

Blog by David Watkinson of the Garden Court Mediation Team. Two years ago, David wrote about mediation in the Anglo-Saxon period. Now, he considers mediation in a different historical context and highlights some comparisons between mediation then and now.

David Watkinson

Environmental Law and Climate Justice, International Environmental Law, International Human Rights | Tuesday 27 February 2024

Privy Council holds that islanders have standing to challenge construction of runway on Barbuda

Marc Willers KC, Leslie Thomas KC, Stephen Cottle and Thalia Maragh, of Garden Court Chambers’ Environmental Law and Climate Justice Team, represent John Mussington and Jacklyn Frank pro bono, instructed by Theo Solley of Sheridans. Global Legal Action Ne

Mediation | Monday 22 January 2024

Mediation Blog: Mandatory Mediation – The Churchill Case – The end of a beginning?

In this blog, David Watkinson of the Garden Court Mediation Team considers the judgment of the recent case of Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 1416 and its impact.

David Watkinson

Mediation | Tuesday 21 November 2023

Blog: The Costs Consequences of Refusing Mediation – Are the Courts Going Soft on Sanctions?

Blog Post by David Watkinson of the Garden Court Mediation Team.

David Watkinson

Mediation | Friday 3 March 2023

Possession Claims Mediation Pilot Re-thought

In this blog, David Watkinson of the Garden Court Mediation Team considers the review of the Mediation Pilot, which had been put in place to deal with possession claims post-pandemic.

David Watkinson

Civil Liberties and Human Rights | Wednesday 11 November 2020

ECHR 70th Anniversary – Poem by David Watkinson, former Joint Head of Garden Court Chambers

We are hugely grateful to David Watkinson for continuing the longstanding tradition of writing and delivering poems to mark special occasions at Garden Court Chambers.

David Watkinson

Community Care Law, Housing Law | Tuesday 18 July 2017

David Watkinson poem – “The Masque of Anarchy” or “The Coalition of Chaos”

Read David Watkinson's masterful and topical poem recited at the Garden Court Housing and Community Care summer party.

David Watkinson

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