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Sophie Garner
Employment
25/03/2020

Dealing with lengthy Delays to Hearings

The large number of Employment Tribunals that are being adjourned at the moment due to the unprecedented working conditions we’ve all been placed under is adding to the stress of the extraordinary situation we are living through. We are acutely...
Leisha Bond
Family
25/03/2020

Is Covid-19 a Barder Event?

By Leisha Bond, Specialist Family Barrister Most involved in the legal world will know of the tragic 1988 Barder v Barder case. Now, in an uncertain world since the coronavirus, we ask if this infamous case is applicable to the new climate and is the...
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General News
24/03/2020

COVID-19 Continuity planning at St Philips Chambers – An Important Update

We would like to update you on important matters in relation to our service. 55 Temple Row: Further to the Prime Minister’s address to the nation on 23rd March in response to the current international health crisis, we have taken the...
Employment
23/03/2020

Attorney General Regional Panel Appointments

St Philips Chambers is delighted to announce that both Sophie Garner and Patrick Keith have been appointed to the Attorney General’s Regional Panel. Sophie, who specialises in Employment Law, has been appointed to the Regional A panel. Meanwhile,...
Julie Duane
Employment
20/03/2020

St Philips Chambers: helping the nation’s businesses to pull through and prosper

By Julie Duane, Specialist Employment Barrister COVID-19 Covered Businesses and employers around the UK are finding themselves in testing and uncertain times. St Philips Chambers Employment Group are ahead of the curve and have been advising on...
David Stockhill
Business & Property
20/03/2020

St Philips involved in mental capacity case involving lifetime gifts of the main family asset and the imposition of ad hoc fiduciary duties on the caring sibling

By David Stockill, Barrister In a recent decision, in the Business and Property Courts of the High Court in Birmingham, the Judge found an elderly mother incapable of having the mental capacity to make three substantial lifetime gifts to one only of...
Lorna Badham
Employment
20/03/2020

St Philips – A consideration of Employers’ liability and COVID-19

By Lorna Badham, Specialist Employment Barrister With COVID-19 declared a pandemic, primary focus is rightly on the immediate health crisis, the practical measures which can be taken and the maintenance of public morale. Employers and individuals...
Anthony Verduyn
Business & Property
19/03/2020

Virtual Mediation: The norm for the foreseeable future

By Anthony Verduyn, Mediator and Barrister Yesterday I held what may be my last for face-to-face mediation for weeks, if not months, ahead. As we are all aware, increasing efforts to limit the spread of Coronavirus makes conventional mediations...
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