18 St John Street Chambers invites applications from ambitious juniors of up to 10 years’ call who wish to join its busy and expanding Business and Property department. The Department undertakes the entire range of traditional and commercial Chancery work, as well as planning and Revenue law. Several members of the Department sit as fee-paid… Read more »
CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE UPDATE FEBRUARY 2022 Ian Huffer considers the recent Court of Appeal decision in Paul in relation secondary victims claiming damages for psychiatric injury resulting from clinical negligence. Whilst there will be disappointment amongst Claimant clinical negligence practitioners at the outcome of the conjoined Court of Appeal decisions in Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS… Read more »
18 St John Street’s Rachel Faux will appear in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s ‘File on 4’ programme on the topic of Drink- and Drug-Spiking, to be aired on 8th February. According to statistics presented to a select committee of MPs in January by the Alcohol Education Trust reports of drink- and drug-spiking have… Read more »
Today marks World Cancer day and highlights the ongoing war to defeat this terrible disease. The world has seen first-hand the impact of cancer, the devastation, the loss, the pain and suffering it causes and the world continues to fight the good fight through research and development and through thousands of initiatives. The hard work,… Read more »
18 St John Street’s Jocelyn Hughes has been successful in a case before the Court of Appeal which concerned the local authority’s “homelessness duty”, under s.193 Housing Act 1996. Housing provided under the homelessness duty must be suitable for the applicant concerned. For a property to be suitable, the applicant must be able to afford… Read more »
Gemma McGungle succeeds in fundamental dishonesty appeal heard in the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division. The case was reported in the Law Society Gazette: Convicted attacker may claim negligence – despite dishonesty | News | Law Gazette “In Cojanu v Essex Partnership University NHS Trust Mr Justice Ritchie ruled that claimant Dorinel Cojanu’s dishonesty about his crime was… Read more »
The members of 18 St John Street are delighted to announce that Rebecca Costello has joined the family department in chambers. Rebecca was called to the bar in 2013 and joins 18 St John Street having spent her early career as an Associate Lecturer in Law at Manchester Law School (MMU), the University of Salford,… Read more »
18 St John Street Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence Specialist, Elahe Youshani, provides an insightful analysis of the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in the case of Ideal Shopping Ltd & others v VISA Europe Ltd & others [2022] EWCA Civ 14. Elahe addresses the questions of: Whether unsealed amended claim forms are claim forms… Read more »
18 St John Street’s Andy Evans prosecuted and Paul Treble defended Kieran McLoughlin who was sentenced to a 23 year Extended Sentence yesterday in relation to five stabbings he committed as part of ten minute spree across Market Street, Manchester on Sunday January 12 2020. All of his victims were begging and had the appearance… Read more »
Alex Walker instructed by Beverley Jones and Ruth Kearns Liverpool JMW Family team for the intervener in Care Proceedings sees no findings made against his client following an investigation found to be “seriously flawed”. The allegations were that the intervener had strangled an 8 year old. The case turned on allegations made and repeated to the police… Read more »
18 St John Street is proud to announce that Victoria Roberts has recently authored a chapter on Human Rights in Tolley’s Insolvency Law Service – the essential guide to insolvency law in England and Wales. Tolley’s Insolvency Law service – published by LexisNexis – is a practical guide to corporate and personal insolvency. It provides… Read more »