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The government earlier this week announced a root and branch review of the parole system in England and Wales. This follows a judicial review claim...

In R (Smith) v Secretary of State for Justice [2020] EWHC 2712 (Admin) the Administrative Court (Calver J) quashed a decision by the Director of Long-Term...

Options and property owners In the Court of Protection, once a lack of capacity is established, the judge only gets to choose between options that...

As a hijabi AAP lawyer, this area can also be isolating and unwelcoming at times.

When we first met the jury panel on 31st March 2014 no one expected that by the end of April 2016 we would still be...

Five children and their two fathers, whose families were refused bereavement benefit after the mother died, have won an important judicial review case in the...

The Court of Appeal has allowed the appeal of three anti-fracking protesters in part. This was the first case of protesters being found in contempt...

The death of Ian Macdonald QC, a barrister notable as a pioneer of committed anti-racist legal practice, was announced on 12 November 2019. Ian’s contribution is...

Garden Court North Chambers are delighted to have been voted the Regional Set of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards 2019