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Gemma Bowes
Family
14/04/2020

Vaccination of Children in Care

T (A child)[2020] EWHC 220 (Fam) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2020/220.html In the coming weeks and months, we are likely to be hearing more and more about a vaccine against coronavirus, and possible pressure and expectations to relax the...

Matt Cullen
Crime
14/04/2020

Criminal Behaviour Orders

by Matthew Cullen, Criminal Barrister INTRODUCTION: Criminal Behaviour Orders (“CBOs”) replaced Antisocial Behaviour Orders and are issued under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (“the Act”). In the recent case...

St Philips Chambers reception
Employment
14/04/2020

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

by Sarah George, Barrister The High Court has ruled on aspects of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (or CJRS) and its interaction with insolvency law in a ruling handed down on 13 April 2020.  For reasons of speed, proceedings In...

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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...

St Philips Chambers reception
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...