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Debbie Collins
Family
23/11/2018

Beyond Together or Apart – Planning for, assessing and placing sibling groups – Debbie Collins

There is so much variety within the dynamics of the modern family that the issue of siblings, their placement and their contact with each other is a major consideration in care proceedings. The placement of sibling groups has long been a challenge...

Marc Brown
Business & Property
16/11/2018

Marc Brown is guest speaker at Aston University Conference on 15 Years of the Enterprise Act 2002 Insolvency Reforms

On Thursday 15th November, Marc Brown was invited to speak at a conference hosted by Aston University, to reflect on the impact of the Enterprise Act 2002 reforms on UK insolvency proceedings and also consider the potential for further reform. Marc...

John Randall QC and Marc Brown
Business & Property
14/11/2018

John Randall QC & Marc Brown victorious in Supreme Court case of Regency Villas v Diamond Resorts

Judgement was today handed down by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the case of Regency Villas Title Ltd and others v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd and others [2018] UKSC 57. John Randall QC and Marc Brown, instructed by Shakespeare...

St Philips Chambers reception
Employment
06/11/2018

Ed Williams QC joins St Philips Employment Team as a Door Tenant

The Employment Group is delighted to announce the arrival of Ed Williams QC as an employment Door Tenant. Ed may already been known to many of you having been a pupil and subsequently a tenant at St Philips between 2000-2006, when he then...

Chambers UK Bar Leading Set Logo 2019
General News
02/11/2018

St Philips dealt a full house of “Band 1” listings in Chambers UK Bar 2019

Thank you to all of our clients for your support during the past year, with a particular thank you to those who participated in the feedback process and gave us such glowing reports. 14 Silk (QC) and 45 Junior rankings were achieved by our members,...

Ed Peperall QC
General News
24/10/2018

Mr Justice Pepperall sworn in by The Lord Chief Justice

The Honourable Mr Justice Pepperall was officially sworn in by The Lord Chief Justice, The Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon, in a ceremony at the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday. Ed, as he is known to most of you,...

Richard Atkins KC & Joe Wilson
General News
03/10/2018

The Lord Chancellor’s Breakfast

On Monday 1st October Director of Clerking, Joe Wilson, attended the Opening of the Legal Year Service (affectionately known as the Lord Chancellor’s Breakfast) at Westminster Abbey. The service was attended by many legal luminaries including 8...

Kirsty White
Business & Property
03/10/2018

Kirsty White joins St Philips

St Philips is delighted to welcome Kirsty White as a new tenant in chambers. Kirsty joins our Business & Property Group after 5 years working in-house in the litigation team of a national firm of solicitors. During this time a lot of her work has...