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Personal Injury Awards: FINALISTS
We are proud to announce that we have been recognised by the Personal Injury Awards 2021 as finalists in two categories: Barristers’ Chambers of the Year Marketing Campaign of the Year Congratulations to the wonderful team at Farrar’s Building for all their hard work and dedication.
read moreSupreme Court rules: No offset of costs under Rule 44
Claimants can sleep easy at night following the Supreme Court’s decision in Ho v Adelekun, reversing the Court of Appeal’s decision that allowed a defendant’s costs to be offset against a claimant’s costs even in cases in which QOCS applied. The Supreme Court unanimously held that there can be no set off of costs against costs […]
read moreChanges to guideline hourly rates & new ‘Guide to the Summary Assessment of Costs’ in-force from 1 October 2021
The guideline hourly rates for solicitors have remained static since 2010 and have been a source of much complaint. This has now been addressed from 1 October 2021 following the Master of Rolls announcement on 17 August 2021 at https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/master-of-the-rolls-accepts-recommended-changes-to-guideline-hourly-rates/ that the recommendations in Civil Justice Council’s 2021 report at www.judiciary.uk/related-offices-and-bodies/advisory-bodies/cjc/working-parties/guideline-hourly-rates would be accepted. To […]
read moreA ‘Change of Guard’ at Farrar’s Building – New Chief Executive Announced
After over 46 years at Farrar’s Building, Alan Kilbey MBE is retiring on 31 December 2021. Alan joined Chambers as Junior Clerk in August 1975 and worked his way up through the ranks, becoming Senior Clerk in July 1992. He was appointed Clerk to the Attorney General, Lord Williams of Mostyn QC in 1999 and […]
read moreChristopher Quinlan QC’s Safeguarding Review Implemented in Full by UKA
We are pleased to announce the full implementation by UK Athletics of Christopher Quinlan QC’s safeguarding review recommendations. To read the final, independent, safeguarding report, please click here.
read moreSuccess for Lee Evans in Nationally Reported Trial
Lee Evans, instructed by Simon Martin of Plexus, successfully defended a housing association in a claim brought by one of its tenants. The trial at Central London County Court received coverage in various national newspapers. The Claimant alleged that as she walked along a driveway that was adjacent to her home, she fell due to […]
read moreJosh Hedgman successfully defends security company against significant brain injury claim following alleged assault
Josh Hedgman was recently instructed to defend a serious brain injury claim following an assault that was alleged to have been committed by a doorman. Josh represented a security company that engaged doormen to provide security services at a pub. The Claimant visited a pub and had to be removed when the pub staff refused […]
read moreJosh Hedgman overturns trial Judge’s finding that council had negligently positioned a signpost on a cycle path
Price v Oxfordshire County Council [2021] 7 WLUK 167 Josh Hedgman was instructed last year by Oxfordshire County Council to defend a claim brought by a cyclist who managed to ride his bicycle into a ‘battleship-grey’ signpost that sat in the middle of a shared pedestrian and cycle path. The signpost had been there since 1999 and […]
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