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We have over 40 talented barristers at 7 Bell Yard Chambers offering a high-quality service to clients all over the UK in a wide range of key practice areas including: fraud and serious crime, clinical and professional negligence, consumer law, family law, general civil, commercial and property, sports and media law and personal injury. Our client base includes: national solicitors, central and local government, small niche practices and the private sector.
Our prime site location adjacent to the Royal Courts of Justice at 7 Bell Yard was acquired in 2000. The offices are run by the senior clerk Kevin Tarrant and his highly experienced clerking team. They provide a professional, modern and approachable service to our clients.
Iain Goldrein QC
DPP guidelines on when a journalist can use the public interest defence should help cases stay out of court - An article by Iain Goldrein QC in the May Issue of The Lawyer
Robert Newcombe
On the 12th June 2012 Robert Newcombe will be presenting Chambers lecture on Cybercrime "Cyberfraud - Trojan botnets, web-injects and mules" with guest speakers from Security Risk Management Ltd (SRM) - providers of computer investigation services, information security, business continuity and compliance management solutions.
Cyberfraud Lecture Details
Graeme Knight
Graeme is currently instructed to represent one of 17 defendants on trial for the summer riots in Nottingham, involving the manufacture of explosive devices, the petrol bombing of Nottingham police station, and widespread rioting through the city.
Iain Goldrein QC
New book announcement - Privacy Injunctions and the Media a Practical Guide -
This is intended to be a practical manual that details how to argue a case and contains check-lists and quality control protocols. It aims to sets out the law relating to privacy injunctions, and best practice in relation to seeking or opposing this form of relief.
In the foreword by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, MR he writes
“In this welcome new book on Privacy Injunctions and the Media: A Practice Manual, Iain Goldrein QC provides a clear, insightful and, perhaps most importantly, practical guide to the way in which the courts have developed the law of privacy in the past decade or so. The book provides a readily accessible and properly comprehensive route through the substantive law of privacy as it now stands, its relationship with freedom of expression, and the balance to be struck between them. On its own, and given the ways in which the law has developed, this would be a significant achievement and should, deservedly, see this work become an essential reference work for lawyers, litigants and those generally interested in the law … I commend it to all those who are interested in the development of the law in this important area, and particularly to those who want practical guidance.”
For any queries please contact the publisher Hart Publishing quoting "7 Bell Yard" for a 20% discount: www.hartpub.co.uk
Tomas McGarvey
Chambers is delighted that Tomas McGarvey has accepted an invitation to join Chambers. Tomas has joined Chambers Criminal and Sports and Media Law teams. For further information on instructing Tomas please contact one of the clerks.
Oliver Grimwood
Oliver was recently in the Supreme Court in the case of R v Waya. The Justices directed a three-day appeal hearing in this appeal, originally subject of a one-day hearing in May 2011, in order to hear representations on a number of important issues of principle in relation to the Proceeds of Crime Act which were not, or not fully, explored at the original hearing.
In October 2009 the Supreme Court replaced the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords as the highest court in the United Kingdom. The Court hears appeals on arguable points of law of the greatest public importance.
Alex Balancy
Chambers are delighted to announce that Alex Balancy was asked to speak at "The Media: Where do we draw the line?" an International conference held in Mauritius on the 21st and 22nd March with Geoffrey Robertson QC as the Lead Speaker.
Robert Newcombe
Cyberfraud expert Robert Newcombe is instructed to defend in allegations of multi-million pound cyberfraud on the Student Loans Company.
Michael Nelson
Michael represented Frank Maloney at the high profile Inquest into the death of Olympic boxer Darren Sutherland where an Open Verdict was delivered. Irish Times
Kate Meikle
Chambers are pleased to announce that Kate Meikle has accepted an Invitation to join Chambers Family Law Team.
Graeme Knight
Graeme was Leading Junior for recently acquitted defendant in the hgh profile trial of 10 young defendants charged with conspiracy to commit arson under the M1 motorway in 2011 BBC News
John Lucas
John recently acted for the Appellant in The Court of Appeal and successfully argued that the conviction from Snaresbrook Crown Court was "unsafe". This is an important case in the area of calling witnesses at the last minute of a trial.
Michael Nelson
Chambers are delighted to announce that Michael Nelson has been appointed a UK Assessor to Transparency International. As such he attended joint UN and EU roundtable table at the European Parliament in Brussels on the UN Convention against corruption ( UNCAC ).
Transparency International ( Ti ) is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. Their work through the 90 worldwide chapters is recognised by the major supranational bodies and organistaions ( UN, EU World Bank and so forth ) as the superlative resource in definition and depth.
Michael is currently preparing a paper on a major UK industrial sector to bepublished in the near future. Details are currently embargoed.
Brian Treadwell
Chambers is delighted that Brian Treadwell has accepted an invitation to join Chambers as a door tenant (he will continue to practice from 7 Harrington Street in Liverpool) - Brian has joined Chambers Sports and Media Law team.
Jose Olivares Chandler
Jose Olivares-Chandler has been invited to contribute to two articles for Lexis Nexis on the recent judgments of R v Twist (hearsay) and R v Guthrie (jury tampering). The articles can be viewed by anyone with a Lexis Nexis subscription
Lecture
Forensic Access, an independant provider of forensic science in the UK, recently gave a CPD lecture to our Members of Chambers titles 'Blood Pattern Analysis: Ofender, Bystander or Good Samaritan?' It was "An informative lecture on a subject of interest to criminal practitioners provided by a friendly and approachable team who made the science easy to understand"
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