News & Views
Family Law | Friday 12 July 2019
Family Law Update: Wasted costs against non-parties in family proceedings
Written by Nisha Bambhra of the Garden Court Chambers Family Team.
Family Law | Friday 12 July 2019
Family Law Update: Family Justice Council interim guidance on special guardianship
Written by Victoria Burgess of the Garden Court Chambers Family Team.
Family Law, Children Law | Friday 12 July 2019
Family Law Update: Uncertain perpetrator cases – the correct approach
Written by William Tautz of the Garden Court Chambers Family Team.
Inquests and Inquiries, Civil Liberties and Human Rights | Thursday 11 July 2019
Family statement following inquest conclusion into death of former Welsh Government Minster, Carl Sargeant
Leslie Thomas QC of Garden Court was instructed by Neil Hudgell of Hudgell Solicitors for the Sargeant family.
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Inquests and Inquiries, Civil Liberties and Human Rights | Thursday 11 July 2019
Family statement on Anthony Grainger police shooting: Public Inquiry finds police operation breached Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Leslie Thomas QC of Garden Court represented the family, instructed by Farleys Solicitors.
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Administrative and Public Law, Criminal Defence, Civil Liberties and Human Rights | Thursday 11 July 2019
Joanne Cecil wins Legal Aid Barrister of the Year and Una Morris wins Legal Aid Newcomer of the Year at 2019 LALY Awards
Garden Court Chambers is delighted to announce that two of our barristers won awards at the seventeenth annual Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards.
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Romani Gypsy and Traveller Rights | Thursday 4 July 2019
Discrimination facing Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK today
Marc Willers QC and Tim Baldwin, Garden Court Chambers, set out an overview of the discrimination and socio-economic disadvantages experienced by Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK which, despite equality legislation and legal protection for their tra
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Inquests and Inquiries | Wednesday 3 July 2019
Jury finds failure to adequately assess risk of self harm and suicide contributed to death of Rocky Stenning at HMP Chelmsford
Maya Sikand of Garden Court represented the family, instructed by Christina Juman of Deighton Pierce Glynn.