New Member of Chambers
Six Pump Court Chambers are delighted to welcome Stuart Jessop who joins our Regulatory and Crime Teams. Stuart has a significant practice in the...
Eleanor Laws QC prosecutes Lord Somerset who yesterday received a sentence of 2 years imprisonment for assaulting his wife
Lord Somerset, yesterday received a sentence of 2 years imprisonment for assaulting his wife. Eleanor Laws QC was prosecuting. To read more news on...
A Practical Guide to POCA & Unused Material: A Defence Perspective
In a further article available on our website, Ian Whitehurst discusses the legal process involved in confiscation proceedings and the issue of disclosure.The article is available...
Chatrooms and 21st Century Insider Dealings
Ian Whitehurst and Stuart Jessop discuss the latest area of financial trading being targeted by regulators. To view the article click here
Six Pump Court Chambers present Health & Safety Seminar
Six Pump Court Chambers, recently awarded the Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession's “Health and Safety Chambers of the Year 2013” joined with...
Partnership sentenced for lake safety failures
Pascal Bates has prosecuted a farming partnership which was fined £60,000 plus £31,252.12 in costs for water safety failures that led to the death of...
Pension Liberation Fraud: New Kid on the Block
Stuart Jessop and Ian Whitehurst discuss the dangers of new pension fraud scams promising savers early access to their pension pots. To view the article click here
Mock Public Inquiry Training Event – 14th March
On 14th March 2014, Six Pump Court will be hosting a Mock Public Inquiry in association with The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment,...
Supreme Court reviews nuisance law – Coventry v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 13
The Supreme Court has today unanimously allowed the appeal of Kate Lawrence and Ray Shields. The appeal raised a number of important points in...
Members of Six Pump Court participate in Central Law Training conference “Defending Regulatory Proceedings”.
On 25th February David Travers QC chaired (and lectured about disciplinary proceedings at) the annual CLT conference on the defence of regulatory proceedings. Other members of Chambers...
Jane Campbell acts in High Court family case concerning freezing orders
In R v R [2013] EWHC 4244 (Fam), Jane Campbell has acted for a husband in a case concerning a family business where the husband had...
Megan Thomas in First Environmental Damage Public Inquiry
Megan Thomas has represented Severn Trent Water Ltd at the first appeal ever to be heard under the Environmental Damage (Prevention & Remediation) Regulations 2009....
Anne Williams acting for local authority in a major mixed use redevelopment case
Anne Williams is acting for the Royal Borough of Kingston council in a major mixed use redevelopment case which includes 200 student bedrooms. Amongst...
“Self-employed” construction worker was an employee
Mukhtiar Singh has successfully argued on behalf of a Claimant that despite a written contract identifying the Claimant as self-employed, the reality of the...
Kent Law Society in association with Six Pump Court present Litigation and Dispute Resolution Annual Conference
Kent Law Society together with Six Pump Court are hosting the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Annual Conference which will take place on 8th October in Rochester....
Oliver Saxby QC and Simon Wickens commence their defence of Adam Green
Oliver Saxby QC and Simon Wickens, instructed by Takk and Co, begin their defence of Adam Green today. Green is charged with two counts...
Eleanor Laws QC appears on BBC’s Newsnight
Eleanor Laws QC appeared on Newsnight last week discussing anonymity for defendants in sex cases. In the programme, broadcast on 15th August, Eleanor Laws...
Six Pump Court shortlisted for four awards in the Chambers UK Bar Awards
Six Pump Court is delighted to have been nominated for awards in four separate categories by the Chambers UK Bar Awards this year including Set...
Tom Dunn secures the acquittal of James Woodland in knife point rape case following 6 day trial at Canterbury Crown Court
Tom Dunn, instructed by Bond Joseph, has secured the acquittal of James Woodland on three counts of raping his ex partner during their 16...
Anne Williams acting for local authority in a major mixed use redevelopment case
Anne Williams is acting for the Royal Borough of Kingston council in a major mixed use redevelopment case which includes 200 student bedrooms. Amongst...