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Dan Jacklin
Regulatory
27/08/2025

A short guide to social housing fraud litigation in the context of Airbnb-style lettings

In this article, Dr Dan Jacklin provides a short guide to the issues social housing fraud litigators must grapple with and how they apply in the context of short-term temporary accommodation for transient visitors paying for such use by way of...

Callum Church & Annabel Hale
Crime
22/08/2025

Callum Church, leading Annabel Hale, secures confiscation orders against three Defendants

Callum Church, leading Annabel Hale, secured confiscation orders following 11 days of contested hearings against three Defendants. After successfully resisting the intervention of a third party in relation to four contested properties, a number of...

Ali Tabari
Business & Property
18/08/2025

Ali Tabari successfully represents respondent in Re SKS Justa & Co Ltd [2025] EWHC 2120 (Ch)

Ali Tabari represented the successful respondent in Re SKS Justa & Co Ltd [2025] EWHC 2120 (Ch), an application by the applicants to set aside two statutory demands (“SDs”). The case concerned the fall-out from the sale of an...

Regulatory
14/08/2025

Henry Skudra secures successful outcome in Traffic Commissioner public inquiry

Henry represented a p.c.v. licence holder who had struck a railway bridge in a public inquiry before the Traffic Commissioner. The starting point in the relevant guidance was for revocation of the licence and disqualification for six months....

Crime
12/08/2025

Tom Walkling KC & Ben Close Prosecute in Failed Birmingham Assassination Plot

Tom Walkling KC and Ben Close successfully prosecuted Aimee Betro, an American woman who carried out a failed assassination in Birmingham. In 2019, Betro flew to the UK, disguising herself in a niqab to approach the intended victim at point-blank...

Kyran Kanda
Employment
11/08/2025

Kyran Kanda completes Pro Bono Pupil Pledge

Many congratulations to Kyran Kanda a pupil barrister within our Employment, PI & Clinical Negligence Group, who has completed Advocate’s Pupil Pledge through his work drafting an advice on quantum for a care sector whistleblower to assist with...

Rebecca Wade KC & Marcis Harry
Crime
06/08/2025

Rebecca Wade KC & Marcus Harry Defend Grandson Cleared of Murder

Rebecca Wade KC leading Marcus Harry, secured a lesser sentence for their client, accused of his grandfather’s murder. Jakob Walpole was accused of inflicting head injuries on his Grandfather, who passed away 6 days later. The case was...

David Nuttall
Business & Property
30/07/2025

Bona Vacantia, Escheat and Lulham v Crown Estate Commissioners – What happens when a freehold disappears?

In this edition of Lay of the Land, David Nuttall reviews what happens when a freehold estate becomes ownerless citing the case of Lulham v Crown Estate Commissioners as a practical application. We all know that leases can be determined. When...