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- 5 Essex Court’s Inquest Authorities Index Update
- Alan Payne QC represented the Secretary of State in lead Divisional Court case challenging the lawfulness of reunification guidance of unaccompanied minors with relatives in the UK
- We are recruiting
- “Inequality of arms?” - Jonathan Landau considers key proposals for reforming the Coroner Service for New Law Journal
- Alex Ustych successfully represents the Secretary of State for Justice in leading case on the management of transgender prisoners
- Amy Clarke secures dismissal without notice of police sergeant who established an inappropriate relationship and engaged in intimate physical touching of a junior colleague
- Sarah Dobbie & Conor Monighan join Chambers
- Book Publication: The Employment Tribunals Handbook: Practice, Procedure and Strategies for Success
- Mark Thomas, Cicely Hayward and Peter Laverack appear in the inquest touching upon the death of Katie Locke
- Alan Payne QC and Saara Idelbi succeed in judicial review against the decision of the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber)
- Clerking Team Leader Paul Read Retires
- Jason Beer QC and Catriona Hodge appointed Counsel to the Inquiry in new public inquiry
- Jermaine Baker Inquiry – begins evidence
- Judgment handed down in significant Article 2 Inquest: R (Morahan) v HM Assistant Coroner for West London [2021] EWHC 1603 (Admin)
- Claire Palmer appears in the Inquest into the death of Angela Best
- “The Data Brief” - 5 Essex Court’s monthly Data Protection Bulletin - Issue 2
- Fishmongers’ Hall Inquests: Jury rules that victims were ‘unlawfully killed’
- Ballymurphy Coroner rules innocent Deceased killed by military fire in August 1971 – Anne Studd QC acted for M167
- Anne Studd QC and Amy Clarke appear in The Times Law section today discussing the need for enforceable national standards for better air quality
- John Goss secures dismissal without notice of MPS officer who used excessive force against vulnerable teenager
- “The Data Brief” - 5 Essex Court’s monthly Data Protection Bulletin - Issue 1
- Amy Clarke appears for Chief Constable of South Wales Police in successful defence of judicial review challenging the retention of acquittal information on the Police National Computer
- Barney Branston appears for West Midlands Police in gross misconduct case involving inappropriate behaviour to Domestic Abuse victims
- Anne Studd QC represented the Greater Manchester Police is an application for habeas corpus arising from the implementation of the additional measures provisions
- Amy Clarke represents Humberside Police at cross bow shooting inquest - the inquest into the death of Shane Gilmer
- Remi Reichhold appears in the Administrative Court for the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police in a judicial review challenge concerning the referral of police complaints to the IOPC
- Peter Taheri appears as Counsel to the Inquest in the first Pre-Inquest Review hearing of the Inquest into the death of Corrie McKeague
- Jason Beer QC, Fiona Barton QC, Samantha Leek QC, Francesca Whitelaw, Georgina Wolfe, Aaron Moss & Jennifer Wright commence Fishmongers Hall Inquests
- Jason Beer QC, Francesca Whitelaw and Georgina Wolfe appear in the Pre-Inquest Review hearing of the Inquest into the Death of Dawn Sturgess
- High Court ruling on consultation requirement for civil injunctions: R(AM) v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police [2021] EWHC 796 (Admin)
- Anne Studd QC represents the Mayor of London as “Voice for London” in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
- Bilal Rawat, Francesca Whitelaw & Aaron Moss appear in the second Pre-Inquest Review hearing of the Inquest into the death of Sudesh Amman
- Robert Cohen appointed as an Assistant Coroner
- Alan Payne QC and John Goss commended for ‘high professional standards’ by UK Supreme Court in significant case relating to asylum seekers and parental abduction
- Charlotte Ventham and Georgina Wolfe contribute to new practitioner text, National Security Law (OUP) published today
- Alan Payne QC and Aaron Moss instructed in on-going investigation into the death of Stuart Lubbock who died in 2001 whilst at a party in Michael Barrymore’s house
- Charlotte Ventham sworn in as Recorder of the Crown Court
- Alan Payne QC and Saara Idelbi appear in the Administrative Court for the Home Secretary in a case concerning the provision of accommodation to failed asylum seekers
- Report in the Magnox Inquiry published
- Alex Ustych represents the Secretary of State for Justice in Divisional Court case on the management of transgender prisoners
- Alan Payne QC and John Goss appear for Home Secretary in UK Supreme Court in significant case relating to asylum seekers and parental abduction
- Victoria von Wachter successfully defends discrimination claim relating to diabetic Firearms Officer and Response Driver
- Police Officer given final warning after tasering mentally ill man 9 times
- Jason Beer QC and Bobby Talalay appear in the Divisional Court for the NPCC in significant case concerning policy regarding retention of conviction records
- Bobby Talalay represents the MPS in significant Upper Tribunal appeal, which defines the scope of s.23(5) FOIA 2000
- 5 Essex Court voted one of the best Chambers for quality of work and training
- Can care homes force their staff to have the Covid vaccine? - Victoria von Wachter comments for Care Home
- Bilal Rawat appointed as counsel to BVI Commission of Inquiry
- “Covid-19: Can employers force staff to have the vaccine?” Victoria von Wachter writes for Employment Law Journal
- Jason Beer QC and Charlotte Ventham succeed in damages appeal in Court of Appeal
- Victoria von Wachter successfully defends Total Gas & Power against a claim of race discrimination following Ice-T dispute
- “Boots ban on male staff wearing shorts discriminatory, judge rules” - John-Paul Waite comments for The Telegraph
- High profile misconduct hearing reaches conclusion
- Melvyn Harris comments for the Telegraph regarding employment rights following the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine
- Covid Vaccinations, Capacity and Care Homes - Jonathan Landau writes for The Carer
- Bilal Rawat, Cicely Hayward & Aaron Moss appear in the first Pre-Inquest Review hearing of the Inquest into the death of Sudesh Amman
- Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah makes legal history as first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death – Alan Payne QC appeared on behalf of DEFRA at the Inquest
- Judgement released in the civil claim arising from the Hyde Park Bombings - Anne Studd QC acts as Leading Counsel
- “Britons to miss out on £2.4bn worth of holiday days” - Dan Hobbs comments for The Telegraph
- Search warrants: time for reform - Jonathan Dixey writes for Police Professional
- Melvyn Harris: Can an employer compel its employees to have a Covid 19 vaccination?
- Alan Payne QC appears in first UK Inquest to consider whether “air pollution” may have been a possible cause of death
- 5 Essex Court welcomes new tenant Jonathan Landau
- Victoria von Wachter litigates ‘Ice-T’ employment claim concerning alleged racial discrimination
- Harry Dunn judicial review: Jason Beer QC appears for Northamptonshire Police
- Rob Harland represents the families in 5 conjoined inquests linked to defective Beko gas cookers
- The Decision from the Supreme Court in Maughan : Significant Ramifications for Coroners and Practitioners
- IICSA publishes its report on the Roman Catholic Church
- Alan Payne QC & Rob Harland appear for the Government in Supreme Court case reviewing substantive/procedural fairness principles
- Reviewing coronial decisions on Article 2: a definitive Divisional Court decision on the correct approach of the Court
- Jason Beer QC and Bobby Talalay appear in the Court of Appeal for the NPCC in significant case concerning police recruitment
- Members of Chambers appear at the first hearing of the Fishmongers’ Hall Inquests
- Jonathan Dixey appointed as an Assistant Coroner
- IICSA Investigation into institutional responses to allegations of Child Sexual Abuse involving the late Lord Janner of Braunstone Q.C.
- Jason Beer QC and Robert Cohen appear in significant case concerning police misconduct
- Charlotte Ventham appointed Recorder of the Crown Court
- Bobby Talalay represents the MPS in a data retention judicial review concerning the Prevent duty
- ‘An excellent set with a stellar reputation’ – 5 Essex Court ranked as top tier set for Inquests & Inquiries and Police Law
- Brook House Inquiry: first preliminary hearing
- ‘Care homes banning visitors to keep residents safe could face litigation due to breach of human rights’ - Rob Harland comments for Care Home
- Alan Payne QC and John Goss appear for Home Secretary in Court of Appeal in significant case relating to asylum seekers and parental abduction
- Jason Beer QC and Peter Laverack called to the Bar of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and succeed in appeal to the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal
- Is there a future for automatic facial recognition? Fiona Barton QC writes for Police Professional
- Inquiry into the Manchester Arena Bombings commences
- Chambers welcomes new pupils – Sarah Dobbie and Conor Monighan
- Significant new report on reform of major inquests and inquiries
- Council employees who have been shielding could be docked pay if they refuse to return to work - Alastair Hodge comments for The MJ
- Francesca Whitelaw and Alex Ustych successfully promoted on the Attorney General’s Panel
- Anne Studd QC comments for The Telegraph regarding the use of facial recognition technology by police forces following important ruling in R (Bridges) v Chief Constable of South Wales Police
- Court of Appeal gives important judgment concerning the use of facial recognition technology by the police service
- Bilal Rawat appears for the Crown Prosecution Service at inquest into death of Caroline Flack
News Archive
- Third issue of 5 Essex Court’s Insight: Inquests and Inquiries published
- Jason Beer QC to give evidence to Parliamentary Select Committee in relation to the response to Coronavirus
- Alan Payne QC and Aaron Moss act for Claimants in pornography age verification JR
- Jason Beer QC appointed a Deputy High Court Judge
- Alan Payne QC and John Goss appear in landmark Court of Appeal case regarding confidentiality of information provided by refugees
- Jason Beer QC and Robert Cohen in Court of Appeal challenge concerning police misconduct regime
- Jennifer Wright joins 5 Essex Court
- Jason Beer QC and Francesca Whitelaw appear in the Court of Appeal in the first case to consider the use of facial recognition technology by the police service
- ‘Inquests, Care Home Residents and Medical Negligence’ - Emma Price writes for the The Carer
- Jason Beer QC appears in Harry Dunn case
- Aaron Moss features in ‘Edward Fennell’s Legal Diary’ to discuss the legalities of the introduction of ‘Test and Trace’
- Amy Clarke writes for The Clinical Services Journal to discuss the legal implications regarding PPE shortages
- Emma Price quoted in New Law Journal regarding significant ruling on the duties of care homes
- Inquests, care home residents, and medical negligence: Court of Appeal determines the limits of Article 2 in important new decision
- Data Protection: from best practice to damage limitation
- Alastair Hodge acts for employer in historic & landmark case in the Jersey Employment Tribunal on the meaning of “disability”
- Claire Palmer appointed a Deputy District Judge
- Government publishes response to the Anthony Grainger Inquiry Report
- The Sofa Series | ‘Sitting down with… BDB Pitmans’ | Data Protection: from best practice to damage limitation
- Unlawful killing conclusions at inquests: are the floodgates about to be prized open? - Amy Clarke writes for The Hospital Times
- Coronavirus Q&A: Should I return to work? Dan Hobbs featured in The Telegraph
- UK Lockdown: What are my rights to leave work if I don’t feel safe? - Dan Hobbs features in The Independent
- Jason Beer QC and Alice Meredith appear in the Divisional Court, successfully resisting a further high profile challenge to the national regime for monitoring sex offenders
- R (on the application of Habte) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWHC 967
- How lockdown is reviving Britain’s biometrics industry - Aaron Moss quoted in The Telegraph
- Client COVID Queries
- Should you get statutory pay or normal pay when you’re sick? John Goss Quoted in The Telegraph
- Police Law Conference 2020 Change of Date + Webinar
- Coronavirus: A Guide for Police Forces
- 5 Essex Court Provides COVID-19 Advice to Multiple Police Forces
- 5EC’s WFH Webinars - The Sofa Series | Ep 2: Employment Law Issues and COVID-19
- 5 Essex Court wins ‘best chambers for colleague support’ in The Legal Cheek Awards 2020
- Jason Beer QC Acts for Ofgem in Renewable Heat Incentive Inquiry
- Extensions in police sick pay considered for the first time by the High Court
- Fiona Barton QC and Alan Payne QC appear in Young v (1) Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police & (2) Director of Public Prosecutions [2020] EWHC 308 (QB)
- Fiona Barton QC represents in the IOPC in a judicial review concerning important points of general application in police misconduct cases.
- Alastair Hodge gives his views on the settlement of Samira Ahmed’s equal pay claim against the BBC
- Victoria von Wachter speaks at inaugural Equestrian Employers Association conference
- Jason Beer QC and Alice Meredith represent West Midlands Police in guideline Court of Appeal Forced Marriage Protection Order case
- Alex Ustych appears in landmark Judicial Review on freedom of speech on social media
- Russell Fortt speaks to Nick Ferrari on LBC about High Court ruling in landmark case on transgender ‘Hate Incidents’ Guidance’
- Alan Payne QC acts in landmark appeal on Parliamentary Privilege
- Robert Talalay and Alex Ustych appear in the FTT, successfully resisting an appeal against the application of the national security FOIA exemptions
- Victoria von Wachter and 5 Essex Court Partner with the Equestrian Employers Association
- Russell Fortt interviewed by Nick Ferrari on LBC regarding the Public Order Act
- Georgina Wolfe represented the Ministry of Justice in Max Clifford inquest
- Mark Thomas features on front page of The Telegraph discussing landmark employment court transgender ruling.
- Anne Studd QC successfully represents the family of Lance Corporal Young who was murdered by the IRA in the Hyde Park Bomb in 1982.
- Mark Thomas, Employment Barrister at 5 Essex Court discusses “Should employees’ personal beliefs affect their job” in HR Grapevine
- Russell Fortt acts for Chief Constable of Northumbria in successful judicial review challenge to the PAT’s decision to reinstate an officer
- Dan Hobbs comments on age discrimination tribunal
- Robert Talalay appears in the Administrative Court in successful defence of a judicial review to the re-categorisation of a prisoner
- Alex Ustych appears in important case about freedom of expression in the age of social media
- Samantha Leek QC, Counsel to the Inquests into the deaths of 6 British people killed in the Easter 2019 bombings in Sri Lanka
- APL (Association of Police Lawyers) Conference on Automated Facial Recognition Law and Technology
- Peter Laverack to deliver speech at House of Lords event on Jones v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
- IICSA publishes report into Ealing Abbey and St Benedict’s School
- The inquests into the deaths of the twenty-two people killed in the 2017 Manchester Arena attack will now become a public inquiry.
- Mark Thomas appears in six week Acute Behavioural Disturbance inquest in Dorset
- Third six applications open
- Robert Talalay appears before the Court of Appeal in a successful appeal concerning civil restraint orders and access to justice
- 5 Essex Court recognised as band 1 set in Chambers UK’s 2020 Directory
- Inquest into the deaths of 10 cancer patients
- Beatrice Collier and Georgina Wolfe launch season 2 of Middle Temple’s Pupillage Podcast
- 5 Essex Court ranked as a tier 1 set for inquests and inquiries and police law in the Legal 500, 2020 directory.
- Samantha Leek QC speaks alongside the Chief Coroner, His Honour Judge Mark Lucraft QC, and Lady Hale, President of the Supreme Court at the Coroners Society National Conference 2019
- Register now for 5 Essex Court’s Inquest Conference 2019.
- IICSA published report on accountability and reparations
- 5 Essex Court is deeply saddened to announce the death of Nick Wilcox, who passed away peacefully in his sleep on Saturday 14th September
- John Goss writes for OnMedica about avoiding the pitfalls of Live Automatic Facial Recognition Technology
- 5 Essex Court welcomes Emma Price
- High Court hands down first ever judgment on the use by law enforcement agencies of automated facial recognition technology
- Jason Beer QC and Jonathan Dixey appear in successful judicial review on the meaning of self-defence in police misconduct proceedings
- Jeremy Johnson QC appointed as a Justice of the High Court and assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division.
- 5 Essex Court’s Pupillage Committee responds to the BSB’s Consultation “Engagement Programme – Pupillage Gateway Timetable and Written Agreements for Pupillage”
- Francesca Whitelaw discusses Facial Recognition Technology in Essential Retail
- Jeremy Johnson QC and Peter Laverack instructed on claim to decriminalise homosexuality in St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Daniel Hobbs comments on NDA misuse in HR Magazine
- 7 Members of Chambers appointed or re-appointed to the Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel
- The Inquests concerning the deaths of the attackers who carried out the London Bridge and Borough Market Terror Attack concluded today
- Carl Sargeant: Inquest conclusions delivered
- Anthony Grainger Inquiry Report published: four members of Chambers appear in the Inquiry
- Third six application deadline approaching
- Jason Beer QC, Alison Hewitt and Bobby Talalay appeared in double murder inquest in Surrey
- Officer dismissed over relationship with juror
- 5 Essex Court responds to the consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths
- Victoria von Wachter and Amy Clarke comment on hate speech in The Times
- Victoria von Wachter, Employment Law specialist, features in today’s HR Magazine
- Saara Idelbi and Amy Clarke speak at seminar discussing risk in the police and public sector, hosted by Browne Jacobson LLP and Aon
- Court of Arbitration for Sport delivers decision in the appeal filed by the President of the French Tennis Federation
- Jason Beer QC, Alison Hewitt and Bobby Talalay appear in double murder inquest in Surrey
- Samantha Leek QC and Georgina Wolfe comment in The Times
- Bobby Talalay instructed by the Home Office to advise on changes to the police misconduct regulatory framework
- Jason Beer QC and Andrew Waters appear in Hillsborough health and safety case
- Alison Hewitt acts for the Senior Coroner in a landmark Court of Appeal ruling on the standard of proof for suicide conclusions at inquests.
- John Goss writes about Uber being challenged in its handling of its drivers’ personal data in the first case of its kind in @hrmagazine
- Jason Beer QC acts in significant health and safety case for the Office of the Chief Constable of Devon & Cornwall Police
- Jason Beer QC and Alice Meredith successfully resist property magnate’s high profile challenge to Notification Order
- London Bridge and Borough Market Terror Attack Inquests begin today
- Amy Clarke secures findings of Gross Misconduct against two officers accused of conducting an inappropriate sexual relationship whilst on duty
Events
- The Sofa Series | The Law Commission Proposals for Employment Tribunal Reform – how will these impact on you and your clients? | Victoria von Wachter and Alice Meredith
- “Privacy Ethics and the Law” with Facebook’s UK Public Policy Manager - Karim Palant
- APL Autumn Conference 2018
- APL Spring Conference 2018
- Are legal frameworks able to protect us from surveillance in the 21st century?
- Automatic Facial Recognition Technology - with Facewatch UK
- Getting Under the Skin of the GDPR
- Information Law - Select Series Seminar
- Inquest Conference Leeds 2019
- Inquest Conference London 2019
- Police Law Conference
- Public Law Algorithms: A Practical Introduction for Lawyers and Decision-Makers
- Sitting down with… Legal Cheek - Applying for pupillage in the age of Coronavirus
- Sofa Series Special - Police Law Conference
- The Sofa Series - ‘Sitting down with… Taylor Vinters and Tough Cookie’ - Managing Wellbeing and Mental Resilience in Lockdown and the ‘New Normal’
- The Sofa Series | ‘Sitting down with… BDB Pitmans’ | Data Protection: from best practice to damage limitation
- The Sofa Series | A Guide to Stalking Protection Orders and Knife Crime Prevention Orders | Anne Studd QC and Molly Joyce
- The Sofa Series | Ep 1 | The Coronavirus Bill and the powers of the State
- The Sofa Series | Ep 2: Employment Law Issues and COVID-19
- The Sofa Series | Ep 3: Coronavirus Regulations: Policing the Restrictions
- The Sofa Series | Ep 4 | A Whistle-Stop Tour of the New Police Misconduct Regime | Simon Walsh & Bobby Talalay
- The Sofa Series | Ep 4 | Information Law: Morrison Supermarkets and other recent cases | Alex Ustych, Aaron Moss & John Goss
- The Sofa Series | Vicarious Liability: Where are we now? | Richard Oulton and Robert Cohen
- The Sofa Series… sitting down with DLA Piper - Inquests, care home residents, and medical negligence: ‘Maguire’ and the limits of Article 2
- Women in Law Summit 2018
Publications
- The Employment Tribunals Handbook: Practice, Procedure and Strategies for Success
- “The Data Brief” - Monthly Data Protection Bulletin - Issue 1
- Insight Issue 4 - Maughan Special Edition - Inquests & Inquiries Newsletter
- The Employment Tribunals Handbook: Practice, Procedure and Strategies for Success
- Public Inquiries
- Public Inquiries
- Insight Issue 3
- Police Law Update Edition 44
- Insight Issue 2
- Police Law Update
- Insight: Inquests and Inquiries
- Five from 5
- Essential Law and Practical Guidance for Police and Crime Commissioners
- Path to Pupillage
- Police Law Update Edition 45