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General News
10/04/2020

Easter wishes in these troubled times

Despite the sun shining and many of us in our gardens enjoying one of those rare warm Bank Holidays, all of us will be only too aware that this is an Easter unlike any other we have ever encountered. The whole world of commerce has been rocked by the...

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Business & Property
09/04/2020

Business & Property Juniors: Breakfast Club Webinars

While we are all getting used to what we hope will be a short-lived new way of working, our Business & Property Juniors will be running a series of live webinars in the coming weeks. The aim of these talks is to provide up to date information and...

Theodora Hand
Employment
09/04/2020

Vicarious Liability

by Theodora Hand, Barrister. “It’s not our fault!”: Vicarious liability updates from the Supreme Court Two decisions have very recently emerged from the Supreme Court on vicarious liability, and what a pleasant distraction is has been to...

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Family
07/04/2020

Five St Philips barristers in the Court of Appeal

Jack Redmond, Julie Sparrow, William Horwood, Karl Rowley QC and Christopher Rank. St Philips family team in Court of Appeal over disallowed application for expert evidence in tragic public law children case Five members of St Philip’s family...

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Regulatory
07/04/2020

Regulatory Group Spring Newsletter

Introduction by Jonathan Barker, Editor Welcome to the St Philips Regulatory Group’s Spring newsletter. We hope you are well in what are undoubtedly testing times for legal practitioners. We are all having to adapt, take on and get used to new...

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Events
06/04/2020

Two of the biggest Barrister’s Chambers unite in face of family law Coronavirus crisis

Two of the country’s biggest barrister’s chambers are collaborating, as some of the UK’s top legal experts offer expert advice during the coronavirus pandemic. St Philips Chambers and No 5 Chambers are teaming up to host a webinar, to explain...

Julie Duane
Employment
03/04/2020

Virtual Hearings: the moving feast

By Julie Duane, Employment Barrister In these unprecedented times, the legal arena needs to adapt and transform its methods and practices in order to ensure that cases can continue to be heard and dealt with. Clearly, it is in the interest of justice...

Sofia Ashraf
Personal Injury
03/04/2020

Practice Direction (PD) 51ZA

By Sofia Ashraf, Personal Injury Barrister Practice Direction (PD) 51ZA provides a temporary update to CPR 3.8 and came into force on 2 April 2020. Essentially, until 30 October 2020, parties are now permitted to consent to extensions of time of up...