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Dan Jacklin
Regulatory
03/06/2025

Local Authority Enforcement Powers and Domestic Bee Keeping

In this article, Dan Jacklin provides a detailed analysis of the enforcement powers available to local authorities in relation to domestic beekeeping. The majority of the UK honey bee population are kept in hives as livestock. The average hive can...
Business & Property
02/06/2025

Raghav Trivedi Successful in Complex COMI Arguments in Bankruptcy Proceedings

Raghav Trivedi has successfully secured a bankruptcy order for a petitioning creditor against a debtor with a c.£4 million debt, despite significant jurisdictional challenges. The debtor contended his Centre of Main Interests (COMI) was abroad,...
Lee Marklew KC & Ben Williams
Crime
30/05/2025

Lee Marklew KC & Ben Williams secure acquittal in Prison Murder Case

Lee Marklew KC leading Ben Williams, secured an acquittal for their client, who was one of three defendants charged with the murder of a fellow prisoner at recently-opened HMP Fosse Way. The case was based primarily on extensive CCTV footage, which...
Personal Injury
29/05/2025

CFA Costs Case Commentary: David Richardson & Ors v Slater & Gordon UK Limited [2025] EWHC 1220 (SCCO)

In this article, Connor Wright explores the recent Senior Court Costs Office decision in David Richardson & Ors v Slater & Gordon UK Limited [2025] EWHC 1220 (SCCO), which addressed the enforceability of Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs)...
Ali Tabari
Business & Property
28/05/2025

Ali Tabari secures permission for minority shareholder in derivative claim

On 21 May 2025, a reserved judgment was handed down by HHJ Rawlings, sitting as a High Court Judge, in the contested application for permission to continue a derivative claim brought in proprietary estoppel by a minority shareholder (Lloyd v Lloyd)....
Ben Mills
Regulatory
27/05/2025

Ben Mills Successfully Prosecutes Director in Waste Fraud Case

Ben Mills successfully prosecuted a Birmingham-based director who was deliberately and systematically defrauding the Environment Agency’s National Packaging Waste Database. The Defendant was given a 2 year suspended prison sentence and was...
Lisa Hancox & Annabel Hale
Crime
23/05/2025

32 Years’ Jail Time Imposed for Attempted Murder after Prosecution by Lisa Hancox and Annabel Hale

Lisa Hancox, leading Annabel Hale, secured a conviction in the trial of Raydell Lennox. The Defendant carried out a ‘planned execution’ in which the wrongly identified victim, was left blind following a gunshot to the head.  On Monday...
Christopher Buckingham
General News
16/05/2025

Christopher Buckingham appointed an Honorary Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham

Congratulations to Business & Property Barrister Christopher Buckingham, who has recently been appointed as an Honorary Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham.
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