Jury Retires in Gross Negligence Manslaughter Trial
The jury will retire today in the trial of Lucy King, a 39 year old mother charged with the manslaughter by gross negligence of...
Ian Rees Phillips’ opinion for UK Proptech Association quoted in property trade press
Six Pump Court’s Ian Rees Phillips has prepared an opinion on the business model utilised by online estate agents for the UK Proptech Association,...
Environmental Law News Update
In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and William Upton consider the jail sentence recently received by a waste operator, the reduction in Environment Agency enforcement officers, and the failure of the latest challenge to Cuadrilla's Lancashire fracking plan.
Judicial Review: Tactics for Winning, Recent Developments and “Abuse of Power”
Six Pump Court presents the first in our series of environmental and public law seminars to be held this year: Judicial Review: Tactics for...
What will be the impact of ‘No Deal’?
The Government has said that it would rather accept no deal than a bad deal for the UK, yet it accepts that no economic assessment has been performed that might evaluate the cost to the UK economy if no deal is reached with the EU by the end of the Article 50 process. We consider a few of the potential effects of failing to reach any form of agreement.
Planning enforcement and abandoned moorings
The curtain has finally come down on the long-running planning enforcement case where William Upton has been advising the Broads Authority on the unlawful...
Acquittal in death by dangerous driving case
Thomas Stern has secured an acquittal for a Czech lorry driver, Jaroslav Horvath, who was tried for causing death by dangerous driving. The incident...
Corporate Social Responsibility as a Legal Duty
In an article published on this website, Frances Lawson discusses whether corporate social responsibility is making a move from ‘soft law’ to ‘hard law’....
Stuart Jessop helps Taxi Association oppose new policy on knowledge test for new applicants
Stuart Jessop successfully represented a Private Hire and Hackney Carriage Driver's Association in their opposition to a local authority's proposal to replace an existing...
Environmental Law News Update
In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and William Upton consider the issues of marinas on the River Thames, pressure for an International Court for the Environment, and the possible impact of Brexit on "environmental dumping" in the UK.
Six Pump Court presents a series of Environmental and Public Law seminars
Members of the Environmental Law and Public Law Teams at Six Pump Court will be presenting a series of seminars covering both environmental regulation and...
Critical Law and Corporate Crime
David Travers QC will be a guest speaker at the Critical Law and Corporate Social Responsibility Network Conference at Canterbury Christ Church University. The...
Six Pump Court barristers recognised in this year’s Best Lawyers
Best Lawyers was established in the USA in 1983 and describes itself as “the oldest and most highly-respected peer review guide to the legal...
“Legal highs” and their role in serious crime
The so called legal high “Spice” has played a role in a number of recent murders. Legal highs, their chemical diversity and the speed...
Environmental Law News Update
In this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger and William Upton provide comment on the £20 million fine imposed on Thames Water for environmental offences, the latest EU warnings on the risks to the environment of future regulatory divergence, and recent case law illustrating the difficulties of assessing impacts on sensitive nature conservation areas from new housing developments.
Shaken Baby Syndrome – legal developments
Richard Barraclough QC and Kate Kelleher have written a paper outlining how medical opinion and the courts’ approach to “shaken baby syndrome” have developed....
Article 50 will now be triggered: what happens next?
Theresa May has indicated that she intends to trigger Article 50 on 29 March. This will be the start of the two-year timeline set out in Article 50, in the eyes of many people a ridiculously short period of time within which to negotiate, finalise and ratify a deal with the EU before the relevant treaties cease to apply to the UK.
William Upton and Megan Thomas to speak at forthcoming PEBA National Conference
William Upton and Megan Thomas will be amongst the speakers at this year’s PEBA National Conference which will take place in May in London....
The need for a new international environmental court
On 29 March, Stephen Hockman QC presented a lecture on the history of proposals for an international environmental court and explore how the idea...
Rolled up holiday pay not holiday pay
In Robinson-Steele v R D Retail Services Ltd C-131/04, [2006] IRLR 386, the ECJ held that “rolled up” holiday pay was incompatible with the...