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St Philips Chambers reception
General News
08/03/2019

Charles Blatchford at the Deepcut Inquest

Private Geoff Gray was found dead with two gunshot wounds at Deepcut Barracks in 2001. He was the third of four young soldiers to die at the barracks with such wounds between 1995 and 2002. In 2018 the original inquest was quashed and a fresh inquest...

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Family
19/02/2019

Two members of St Philips Family Team appointed to part-time roles in the First-Tier Tribunal

St Philips are delighted to announce that Heledd Williams and Lucie French have both been appointed to the First-Tier Tribunal where they will sit as part-time fee-paid judges once they have completed their initial training which commences next...

Iqbal Mohammed
Business & Property
13/02/2019

Breaking a deadlock: Invalid appointment of director and administrators – Iqbal Mohammed

Re Sprout Land Holdings Limited: Tighe v Fraser-Peters Iqbal Mohammed acted for one of two directors of a deadlocked company, where one director resolved to appoint administrators through the appointment of a third director by a members’ written...

Petar Starcevic
Personal Injury
12/02/2019

The Problem with Trees – Petar Starcevic

The record hot summers of 1975 and 1976 brought a flurry of claims relating to the insidious damage to property caused by roots from nearby trees and caused the law to be clarified and developed. Last week the press announced that 12 million trees...

Sofia Ashraf
Personal Injury
12/02/2019

St Philips Personal Injury Group are delighted to announce the arrival of Sofia Ashraf

Sofia spent the first five years of her practice employed by two separate top tier law firms. Initially, Sofia spent over three years as an advocate at a national Legal 500 firm practising in Public and Regulatory law, Coronial law, Costs, Insurance,...

Elizabeth Walker
General News
05/02/2019

Elizabeth Walker appointed as a Circuit Judge

St Philips Chambers are delighted to announce that Liz Walker has been appointed as a Circuit Judge. The Lord Chief Justice has deployed Liz to the Midland Circuit based at Wolverhampton Family Court where she will take up her post on 4th March 2019...

St Philips Chambers reception
General News
04/02/2019

Four nominations for St Philips at the Birmingham Law Society Legal Awards 2019

We are proud to announce that four of our members have been shortlisted for awards at the Birmingham Law Societys Legal Awards 2019. In the category of ‘Barrister of the Year’, Employment specialist, Elizabeth Hodgetts along with Business &...

St Philips Chambers reception
Employment
01/02/2019

Russell Bradley joins St Philips as a Door Tenant

The Employment Group is delighted to announce the arrival of Russell Bradley as a Door Tenant. Russell was admitted as an advocate on 1st June 2012. Prior to that, he was in private practice as a solicitor for over 20 years. In the latter 10 years,...