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HHJ Walker sworn in
General News
14/03/2019

HHJ Walker sworn in by The President of The Family Division

On Wednesday 13th March Liz Walker was officially sworn in as Her Honour Judge Walker at a ceremony at The Royal Courts of Justice before The President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane. Liz was attended upon by her immediate family as...

William Horwood
Family
13/03/2019

G (Children: Fair Hearing) [2019] EWCA Civ 126 – by William Horwood

How far is too far? And when is a finding not a finding? In G (Children: Fair Hearing) [2019] EWCA Civ 126, the Court of Appeal (Peter Jackson LJ and Moor J) considered two situations which will be very familiar to advocates conducting urgent...

Tom Rochford
General News
11/03/2019

Tom Rochford appointed as a Circuit Judge

We are proud to announce that The Queen has appointed Thomas Rochford to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable David Gauke MP and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable The Lord...

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...

St Philips Chambers reception
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,...