News & Views
Immigration Detention, Asylum and Deportation, Immigration Law, Administrative and Public Law | Wednesday 1 November 2023
Immigration Blog: The expansion of immigration detention in the Illegal Migration Act 2023
Blog post by Alex Schymyck of the Garden Court Immigration Team.
![Alex Schymyck](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/3288.jpg)
Garden Court Chambers | Wednesday 1 November 2023
FREE EVENT: Racial Bias and the Bench - one year on, has progress been made?
The event will assess whether progress has been made in meeting the challenges outlined by a ground-breaking report into racial bias in our legal system, one year after its publication.
![Keir Monteith KC](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1035.jpg)
Garden Court Chambers | Monday 30 October 2023
Four former pupils join Garden Court Chambers as new tenants
Tommy Seagull, Maaha Elahi, Harry Harris and Josephine Fathers have joined Chambers as full members and have already started developing multi-disciplinary practices across the full span of Chambers’ areas of law.
![Josephine Fathers](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/2834.jpg)
![Tommy Seagull](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/2865.jpg)
![Harry Harris](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/2815.jpg)
![Maaha Elahi](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/2825.jpg)
Criminal Defence | Friday 27 October 2023
Court of Appeal quashes conviction for murder
Peter Wilcock KC and Catherine Oborne of the Garden Court Criminal Defence Team represented the appellant, Stuart Layden.
![Catherine Oborne](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/825.jpg)
![Peter Wilcock KC](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1332.jpg)
Criminal Defence | Thursday 26 October 2023
Mark Robinson secures acquittal for defendant at Guildford Crown Court
Mark Robinson of the Garden Court Criminal Defence Team successfully acted for the defendant, instructed by Wainwright Cummins.
![Mark Robinson](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/2871.jpg)
Inquests and Inquiries, Civil Liberties and Human Rights | Tuesday 24 October 2023
Inquest concludes ‘stark’ failures by probation service led to death of family
Kirsten Heaven and Paul Clark of Garden Court Chambers represented some of the family members of the victims at the inquest.
![Paul Clark](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/1162.jpg)
Garden Court Chambers | Monday 9 October 2023
Danielle Manson starts her Pegasus Scholarship placement today at American Inns of Court in Washington DC
Good luck to Danielle Manson, one of our junior tenants, who is today starting her placement at the American Inns of Court in Washington DC, after being awarded a Pegasus Scholarship.
Immigration Law, Administrative and Public Law, Community Care Law | Monday 9 October 2023
Garden Court Chambers welcomes four new pupils
Garden Court Chambers is delighted to welcome four new pupils: Matthew Banks, Abby Buttle, Daniella Davenport, and Christopher Lambert.
![Daniella Davenport](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/3703.jpg)
![Abby Buttle](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/3705.jpg)
![Christopher Lambert](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/3688.jpg)
![Matthew Banks](/assets/images/resize/person-tiny/3778.jpg)