News & Views
Inquests and Inquiries | Thursday 6 July 2017
Jury finds gross failures in care contributed to a vulnerable detained patient
Tom Stoate of Garden Court Chambers represented Sabrina Walsh's mother at the inquest.
Inquests and Inquiries | Tuesday 4 July 2017
Inquest opens into death of Sarah Reed, found dead in her cell after an acute mental health crisis
Sean Horstead of Garden Court Chambers represents the family at the inquest.
Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Inquests and Inquiries | Thursday 29 June 2017
Hillsborough disaster: criminal charges against six people
Seventeen barristers from Garden Court Chambers represented 80 families at the Hillsborough inquest.
Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Immigration Law, Immigration Detention Civil Claims | Friday 23 June 2017
European Court of Human Rights finds UK in breach of Article 5 over unlawful detention of Zimbabwean national
David Jones of the Garden Court Chambers Immigration Team represented the Zimbabwean national.
Administrative and Public Law, Housing Law | Thursday 22 June 2017
Revised benefit cap unlawfully discriminates against lone parents with children under two, High Court rules
Shu Shin Luh and Connor Johnston were instructed by Freshfields Bruckhause Deringer for the intervener, Shelter.
Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Inquests and Inquiries | Monday 19 June 2017
Jury concludes failings contributed to death of secure patient Janet Müller who absconded from Mill View Hospital
Kirsten Heaven of Garden Court Chambers represented the family at the inquest.
Garden Court Chambers | Sunday 18 June 2017
Defendant acquitted in multi-handed arson case
A defendant accused of conspiring to commit two arsons, one of which endangered life, in which large numbers of vehicles were burnt out has been acquitted.
Housing Law | Friday 16 June 2017
Immediate housing duties owed to victims of fires
Homelessness duties owed by the local authority to former residents of Grenfell Tower.