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- News Archive
- Media information
- Thompsons Solicitors / UNISON press release
- Compensation for discrimination on disability awareness course
- Garden Court North Chambers website launched
- European Commissioner for Human Rights critical of ASBOs in recent report
- Youth wins child curfew zones legal challenge
- Admitting "bad character" evidence: Further guidance on summing-up
- Andrew Byles joins chambers
- Positive result for former charity manager in unfair dismissal tribunal
- Sex discrimination case reported in Equal Opportunities Review (EOR)
- Clarification that notice required for demotion order proceedings.
- New Senior Clerk - Sarah Wright
- "Deadline: the Movie" screening in Manchester
- Two new tenants - Laura Cawsey and Kerry Smith
- Launch of Amicus group in Manchester
- Recommendations for Human Rights, Immigration and Crime in Chambers & Partners UK 2006
- Mark George to teach on death penalty legal training course
- Appeal against detention under S.91 of Powers of Criminal Courts Act 2000 allowed
- GCN contriubute to "ASBOs on Trial" on BBC Panorama
- Kate Stone joins chambers
- Amicus organises introduction to US death penalty training in Manchester
- House of Lords gives leave to appeal in Income Support / asylum case.
- Juan Melendez to address Amicus group in Manchester
- Inquest finds school worker suicide "avoidable"
- High Court ruling curbs police ASBO powers
- JR elicits clarification of Section 25, Magistrates Courts Act 1980
- Lancaster student protesters launch appeal
- Appeal against conviction clarifies offence of "doing an act outraging public decency"
- Mark Barlow called to the Bar of Northern Ireland
- "Must have own teeth" BBC Panorama focus on age discrimination
- BBC drama New Street Law : rival barristers in Manchester
- Court of Appeal quashes IPP sentence for low-level robbery offences
- Prisoner released in error not unlawfully at large
- Garden Court North members appear in "grave-theft" case
- Landmark disability discrimination settlement costs Wigan dear
- Inquest into death of Capt Ken Masters
- GCN solicitor is "Lawyer of the Week" in The Times
- Review of 'ASBO' a MaD Theatre Co production
- Book review: 'In the care of the state? Child Deaths in Penal Custody in England and Wales'
- Garden Court North Chambers debut in Legal 500
- Human Rights and Human Lives conference : 16/10/06, Manchester
- Right to silence? Pete Weatherby explains
- Anver conviction quashed for second time
- Mark George lecture on Death Penalty law for Amicus
- Chambers & Partners 2007 recommendations for Human Rights, Crime, Social Housing and Immigration
- Intermittent Custody scrapped from 20/11/06
- ECHR judgment in Tsfayo v United Kingdom
- 40th Anniversary of Cathy Come Home
- Mark George debates juror's views on rape cases on BBC Radio Manchester
- Inquest verdict questions appropriateness of prison for vulnerable women
- Reward for progress in prison
- Restraining order made without consultation with complainant
- EAT upholds unfair dismissal victory for self-employed employees
- Sex Discrimination training at Newcastle Law Centre
- Mark George to teach on US Death Penalty Training Course
- Baroness Corston report on Vulnerable Women in Prison
- Obituary of Don McPhee, photographer
- Appeal considers Education Act 2002 statutory guidance on unfair dismissal
- Terrorism Trial in Manchester
- 'Free the Liverpool One'
- VHCC (Crime) tender process starts
- Verdict returned in Abergele cyclists inquest
- Jessie James Coroner offers extra protection to witnesses
- Wig out hair in as barristers modernise their dress
- Suicides soar in women's prisons
- Nomination for Chambers Bar Award 2007
- High Court rules detention for indefinite sentence prisoners post-tariff is "unlawful"
- IPP sentence quashed for low level robbery
- Jessie James inquest
- High Court orders release of post-tariff IPP prisoner
- Legal 500 recommends
- Press photographer sues Met over demo
- Mark George to teach on US Death Penalty Training Course
- Right to detain TB patients? Pete Weatherby explains
- Pleural plaque test case
- New Manchester Civil Justice Centre opens
- Right to prompt hearing (Art 5) Parole Board challenge
- Chambers & Partners 2008 recommendations for civil liberties, crime, immigration and social housing
- New guidance on ex-parte injunctions
- Mark George on Criminal Appeals process
- Government appeals ruling on inderterminate sentences
- No specific measurement of minimum duration of exposure to asbestos required
- Introduction to US Death Penalty Law - Manchester
- Most read news stories of 2007
- Mark George explains bail
- Court of Appeal to consider Police officers serving on juries
- Clarified extended deadline for ET claims
- Walker and James (IPPs) Court of Appeal judgment
- Criticism of inquest jury ban proposals and the use of secret evidence and ‘special’ judges
- Use of intercept evidence in court cases
- Andrew Jones inquest
- Photojournalist wins out-of-court settlement from Metropolitan Police in assault case
- Administrative Court ruling on HDC for prisoners
- "Reasonable excuse" for driver's failure to provide specimen
- Double murderer refuses to appear in dock for sentencing
- Unreliable evidence: Mark George on Low Copy Number (LCN) DNA
- New website home page
- Entrenched tolerated trespassers
- Ben McCormack's London Marathon
- Nina Grahame joins chambers
- Sonia Birdee joins chambers
- BBC Inside Out on Michael Shields
- M1 widening protest prosecution dismissed at Sheffield Crown Court
- Indeterminate ethics of sentences
- Michael Shields petition to be investigated
- Applications for Anti Social Behaviour Orders under Section 1B Crime and Disorder Act 1998 struck out
- Sentence appeal allowed for Lincolnshire mother
- Posthumous appeal v conviction
- Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Bill
- Mark George to teach on US Death Penalty Training Course
- LAG equality and diversity training for Bar Council
- No re-categorisation without a significant change in risk
- GCN barristers to chair Housing Law Conference
- John Hirst and "Rocky" found not guilty
- Kellie Hutchinson inquest
- Legal 500 recommends
- Historic allegations and the right to fair trial
- Important notice regarding 2009 pupillage application session
- Public inquiry opens into death in prison custody
- HLPA Conference 2008
- Manchester Law Society Criminal Litigation Conference 2008
- Asbestos Awareness Day in Hull
- "Boutique ...[and] beautiful"
- New hope for jailed football fan Michael Shields
- Vijay Jagadesham joins chambers
- What price imprisonment? GCN sponsors LAG annual lecture
- Pro Bono Week lectures on US death penalty law
- Chambers & Partners 2009 recommendations for civil liberties, public law, crime, immigration and social housing
- Pro-bono hero honoured at Commons reception
- Hunting with dogs; is the act flawed?
- Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year finalist
- Michael Shields Judicial Review
- Court of Appeal quash carer’s conviction from 1969
- Michael Shields' High Court bid for freedom
- ECHR ruling on DNA samples
- Andrew Jones inquest
- James Stark to speak at Housing Management Conference in Manchester
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th Anniversary
- Identity Cards Act 2006 prosecutions and victims of trafficking
- Michael Shields JR decision
- Most read news stories of 2008
- Cleaning up the Act
- High Court ruling on sex offenders register
- Pete Weatherby is The Times "Lawyer of the week"
- Erimnaz Mushtaq returns from maternity leave
- IPP sentences to be considered by House of Lords next week
- Official launch of Administrative Court in Manchester
- What price imprisonment?
- Analysis of High Court ruling on definition of hunting
- AIT hands down determination in latest Syria (Undocumented Kurds) Country Guidance case
- Congratulations Mark George
- Counter Terrorism Act 2008 : new provisions set to "limit" photography in a public place
- Conditions of Detention in Turkey
- GCN's first "home grown" QC now official
- Court of Appeal allows out of time appeal of extended licence period
- Deportation appeal considers Section 72 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 and meaning of 'particularly serious crime'
- Administrative Court opens for business in Manchester
- Mark George QC to speak at CBA Conference
- Teacher successful in DNA database challenge
- Lords judgment has dismissed IPP appeals
- The end of the tolerated trespasser?
- GCN sponsors LAG National Conference on Legal Aid
- Court quashes murder conviction
- LAG Legal Aid Conference report
- GCN barristers urge Straw to ditch plans for BVT
- GCN housing seminar to consider latest Lords judgment on homelessness.
- High Court lifts stay on claims for compensation for first time since the closure of the Coal Health Compensation Scheme in 2004
- Parole Board decision quashed for lack of reasons and irrationality (and Treasury Solicitor’s conduct described as “scandalous”)
- Shelter Solicitor is "Lawyer of the Week" in The Times
- Prison JR quashes re-categorisation and refusal of HDC decision
- ‘Third party support’ in immigration appeals to be considered by the House of Lords
- Unlawful killing verdict for charity worker killed in India
- Court of Appeal upholds sex offenders register ruling
- Reasonable Occupational Continuation
- Pinnock (proportionality when granting possession of demoted tenancy) judgment
- Women workers successful in equal pay case against Bury Metropolitan Borough Council
- Right to review reviewed
- Lawful consequences; "homeless at home"
- Michael Shields released
- High Court rules that Cat A prisoners should be given reasons for ERC decisions
- Judges given "essential" guidance on ordering of consecutive sentences (for future HDC purposes)
- Jason Paul wins civil action against Humberside Police
- Assisted Suicide Guidelines – Pete Weatherby talks to BBC Radio Manchester
- Legal 500 recommends
- UK Supreme Court Opens
- ‘Letter from America’ - Kate Stone’s Pegasus scholarship in Washington
- Can best value tending work in criminal legal aid?
- Three new members join chambers
- James Stark will speak at HLPA (Housing Law Practitioners Association) Conference which takes place in London on 15th December 2009.
- Judge's decision in child rape case - Mark George QC talks to BBC Radio Manchester
- Chambers & Partners 2010 recommendations for civil liberties, public law, crime, immigration and social housing
- Prison JR: SSJ acted unlawfully in respect of the transfer of IPP prisoners to open conditions
- Prison Law - Challenging Deportation
- Manchester City Council –v- Pinnock - Permission to appeal granted
- Appeal against 2004 convictions allowed on referral from the Criminal Cases Review Commission
- Public Inquiry into the 1998 death of Sonny Lodge in HMP Manchester delivers hard-hitting final report criticising Prison Service and officers
- Third party support and/or joint sponsorship are permissible for entry clearance applications under Rules 281, 297 and 317
- Matthew Stanbury challenges the agreement between NOMS and the UK Border Agency to segregate foreign nationals in designated prisons
- Camille Warren joins chambers
- Proposed government cuts to criminal legal aid risk an increase in miscarriages of justice
- Brigid Baillie joins chambers
- IPP sentence quashed
- Bryony Poynor to run London Marathon
- Pete Weatherby on Assisted Suicide
- President of the Queen’s Bench Division at the Leeds Admin Court
- Prison JR: Parole Board’s refusal to grant an oral hearing
- Pupillage at Garden Court North for 2011
- Hannah McIntyre cleared of sex with pupil charge
- Katy Ayres joins chambers
- Supreme Court upholds Sex Offenders Register appeal
- Court of Appeal quashes life sentence and substitutes hospital order
- Starter Tenancies and Public Law Defences
- Whole life tariff quashed
- US Supreme Court outlaws life without parole for non-homicide juveniles
- Mark George QC on anonymity for those accused of rape
- Supreme Court ruling on HDC for prisoners
- Out-of-time appeal: Court of Appeal quashes IPP
- Pinnock (proportionality in demoted tenancy possession) appeal in the Supreme Court this week
- Administrative Court quashes SSHD's decision to certify Claimant's human rights claim as clearly unfounded - HM (Malawi)
- Administrative Court quashes refusal to re-categorise a prisoner convicted of crimes against humanity - R (Krstic) v SSJ
- GCN's Bryony Poynor joins International Lawyers Delegation to Colombia
- Murder conviction quashed in crossfire shooting appeal
- Important Court of Appeal judgment on succession provisions
- Pete Weatherby undertakes trial observations in Bahrain for Bar Human Rights Committee
- Landmark hospice costs victory for Mesothelioma victim
- Legal 500 Recommends
- Team GCN raising funds for North West Legal Support Trust
- Ben McCormack to speak at The Housing Law Conference in London
- ECHR Grand Chamber appearance in Chiragov v Armenia
- Equality Act 2010
- Refusal to transfer FNP to open prison held unlawful
- Bahrain: Trial Observations Report and deteriorating human rights
- Outreach Strategy for War Crimes Division of High Court of Uganda
- Demonstration - Legal Aid Funding Cuts
- Inquest training for Royal College of Midwives
- Test Cases on sale and leaseback
- High Court clarification on Immigration Detention for mentally ill
- Ben McCormack on Disability Equality Duty (Pieretti)
- Compensation Scheme for Miscarriage Victims Should Be More Flexible
- Mark George QC on Arizona execution
- Matthew Stanbury called to the Bar of Northern Ireland
- Raymond Morris Granted Permission to Challenge CCRC Refusal
- Andrew Byles shortlisted for Bar Pro Bono Award 2010
- Chambers & Partners 2011 recommendations for civil liberties, public law, crime, immigration and social housing
- Pinnock judgment
- Rory O'Ryan to speak at ILPA training on Tier 1 (General) on 3/12/10
- Kerry Smith to speak at IER Employment Law Update conference on 23/11/10
- Death of prisoner with Learning Difficulties at HMP Wymott contributed to by neglect
- Pete Weatherby on "whole-life tariff" challenges
- Permission to appeal in sale and leaseback test cases
- Prisoner voting - parameters of reform remain unclear
- Joint Enterprise - Foresight of Risk of Harm to Another Insufficient for Murder
- Court Considers Scope of Reasonable Grounds for Suspicion
- Judgment Highlights Potential Unfairness of RTA 1988
- Personal Injury Claims - Increasingly Exaggerated?
- R v Major and Restraining Orders
- Reversing the Burden of Proof
- Court of Appeal provides guidance on Parole Board oral hearings
- Mark Barlow acknowledged in Rook & Ward on Sexual Offences (4th ed.)
- Inadequacy of Reasons in FNP Recategorisation
- Jared Ficklin joins chambers
- Bury Council women workers' equal pay claim upheld
- GCN barristers appointed to EHRC Preferred Counsel Panel
- Can a trial be fair without full disclosure?
- No duty of care for criminal record checks
- Can illegal property be stolen?
- MoJ consultation on reforms to Legal Aid closes 14.2.11
- Damages for detention in breach of Article 5(1) of the ECHR
- Bahrain: Report on adherence to human rights in terror suspect cases
- Mark George QC to teach on US Death Penalty Training Course
- What could more litigants in person mean for practitioners?
- Right to Challenge Registration
- Confiscation Proceedings: How to Admit Hearsay Evidence?
- Pupillage at Garden Court North for 2012
- Memory on Trial - File on 4 (BBC Radio 4)
- Should Further Submissions be Treated as Fresh Claims?
- Makisi (Homelessness - oral representations) judgment
- High Court rules that common practice of arresting voluntary attenders at police stations is unlawful unless there are clear reasons why the arrest is necessary
- Permission granted in post-Noone case
- Guidance published the handling of vulnerable witnesses, victims and defendants in court
- Recall to custody must be proportionate
- Prisoners Advice Service 20th anniversary (The Guardian article)
- Advocacy: How to handle a vulnerable witness
- Demonstrating Innocence - Compensation for Miscarriages of Justice
- Policing Protests - When is Containment Lawful?
- Sentence Calculation: Licence Expiry Dates (Elam)
- Muslim prisoner’s voluntary fasting protected by Art 9 ECHR (Bashir)
- Excessive Retention of DNA Profiles Violates Privacy
- Campaign against Legal Aid cuts
- Government proposals for removal from the Sex Offenders Register following Supreme Court ruling
- Mark George QC on Facebook juror trial
- Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill
- Sheffield Council loses appeal in third party race discrimination case
- Joint enterprise (crossfire shooting) appeal in Supreme Court
- Householder using reasonabe force against intruder
- "Exploitation" in the context of the offence of trafficking
- Sara Woodhouse Davie joins chambers
- Prisoners with learning disabilities
- Manchester Legal Walk 2011
- Legal 500 recommends
- Lancashire teacher cleared of sex assaults on pupils
- Florida executes inmate after 33 years on death row
- Mistake of fact: High Court quashes Parole Board decision and orders a new hearing
- Use of supergrass comes under scrutiny
- Sarah Daley nominated for Bar Pro Bono Award 2011
- Ogden tables updated to reflect change in mortality predictions
- Supreme Court rejects insurers' Article 1 challenge to Scottish Act on damages for asbestos-related conditions
- "If I should die" - former death row inmate to speak at Amicus event in Manchester next week
- Riot Appeals
- Philip McLeish joins chambers
- Chambers & Partners 2012 recommendations
- Are squatting reform proposals causing confusion?
- Norouzi (indirect discrimination) case reported in Equality Law Reports
- Mark George QC called to the Bar of Northern Ireland
- Court confirms law will not recognise assignment of bare right to litigate
- Pete Weatherby on Liverpool's "Bloody Sunday" (BBC Inside Out)
- Ben McCormack to speak at The HLPA Conference 2011
- Distance learning policy at HMP Wakefield declared unlawful
- Is Greater Judicial Oversight of Surveillance Decisions Needed?
- Dereci (European citizenship)
- Will Assange Decision Open Doors for Extradition Challenges?
- Out of time IPP sentence appeal succeeds
- Court of Appeal quashes UKBA’s “unfair” and “obscure” decisions
- Supreme Court judgment in Gnango found liability in a re-analysis of the “victim rule” rather than alter existing joint enterprise law, as had been feared.
- Police officer on jury made trial unfair
- Manchester juror who skipped jury service
- Release and recall - two years on
- Permission to appeal to Supreme Court in Parole Board oral hearing challenge
- Rethinking double jeopardy
- Amicus US Death Penalty training 2012
- ECHR whole-life tariffs judgment (Vinter and Others v UK)
- Pete Weatherby explains partial defence of "loss of control"
- Death by incarceration
- North East Property Buyers Court of Appeal decision
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