21st January 2021
St. John’s Chambers expert barristers will discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in the FCA business interruption insurance test case, looking in particular at its treatment of (1) disease clauses, (2) prevention of access and hybrid clauses, and (3) trends clauses, as well as the all-important treatment of causation underlying these. Nick Pointon, Georgina Thompson and Daniel…
12th January 2021
St John’s Chambers is pleased to announce that Louise Asprey has joined the St John’s Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and Inquests Practice Groups. Louise has many years of experience representing both claimants and defendants in personal injury and clinical negligence matters. She regularly deals with claims arising out of road traffic accidents and is experienced…
5th January 2021
To all clients of St John’s Chambers, Further to the Prime Ministers announcement of a national lockdown, our clerking teams and barristers will continue to work remotely. The clerking team are contactable between 8am and 6pm by phone, MS Teams or email. We continue to see an increase in email traffic and we appreciate that…
4th January 2021
Our Pupillage applications for 2022 are now open! Find the form and all information here. The closing date for applications is Monday 8th February 2021 at 11am. We look forward to reviewing all of these applications after the deadline. Good luck!
1st January 2021
Jacqueline Humphreys, has been appointed as the new Chancellor for the Diocese of Worcester. The appointment was made by Bishop John following the approval of the Lord Chancellor. Jacqueline has been the Deputy Chancellor for the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham since 2012 and takes over in our diocese from Charles Mynors who is stepping…
3rd December 2020
Marcus Coates-Walker, a member of our Clinical Negligence team has recently contributed an article for AvMA Lawyers Service November newsletter. Over recent years we have seen several scandals related to maternity care. However, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, looks set to be the largest maternity care scandal in NHS history. The Ockenden report has…
30th November 2020
The Court of Appeal has considered claims to an interest in the family home when in the name of one member of the family under the constructive trust doctrine, the need for detrimental reliance and what amounts to detrimental reliance in fact in O’Neill v Holland [2020] EWCA Civ 1583. Leslie Blohm QC led Michael…
26th November 2020
We are delighted to announce that Family barrister, Sarah Phillimore has won Family Commentator of the year 2020 at the Family Law Awards Sarah was called to the Bar in 1994 and since 1999 has worked as a specialist family lawyer in Chambers in London and Bristol. She has interest and experience in public law…
12th November 2020
If you have taken delivery of your copy of Facts & Figures 2020/21, you might have noticed that the chapter on pension losses has been completely re-written from previous years. The new chapter has been written by James Rowley QC and our very own Matthew White. It is a heavily slimmed down version of the…
2nd November 2020
St John’s is pleased to announce Kate Pearson as their newest tenant. Kate is accepting instructions in the following areas: Children Private Law Children Public Law Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 Divorce and Financial Remedies Part IV Family Law Act 1996 (Domestic Violence) ToLATA 1996 Barrister, Lucy Reed says “Kate is going to be a…
2nd November 2020
The Public and Administrative Law Group has responded recently to two important Government consultations. One is on the recent White Paper on planning which has excited much controversy in the shires and elsewhere. The other is just as controversial, if not more so, and is the call for evidence on Judicial Review. One aspect of…
29th October 2020
Christopher Sharp QC, member of our Family & Divorce team, publishes the Autumn edition of his 2020 financial remedies update written for the FLBA’s ‘Family Affairs’ magazine. He regularly reviews the more important recent financial remedy cases during the course of the year with termly updates. All updates are available to download from Christopher’s online…
23rd October 2020
We are delighted to announce that we have been hugely successful in this year’s Chambers UK Bar 2021 Guide. We have been recognised in a total of 22 major areas of law, with 1 of our barristers ranked as a star individual, 3 up and coming, 17 of our barristers ranked in Band 1 and…
9th October 2020
Graeme (instructed by Jay Oberoi of Avon & Somerset Family Law) represented the maternal grandmother on her application for leave to apply for the revocation of a placement order made in February 2020 at the end of care and placement proceedings. The application was first heard by HHJ Bromilow in July 2020. His Honour found…
7th October 2020
We are delighted to announce that our member Rachel Russell (Civil / Western Circuit) and David Regan (Family / Wales) been appointed to sit as a Recorder by the Judicial Office. The appointment will take effect from 12th October 2020. This year’s appointments sees a total of 118 Recorders appointed. A full list of the…
5th October 2020
We are delighted to announce that we have been ranked as top tier in 10 different areas of law and with 47 of our barristers ranked in 14 areas of law in the 2021 Legal 500 rankings. This means that St. John’s barristers have been ranked a staggering 82 times in 2021. We are also…
25th September 2020
Chambers and Partners has announced the nominees for this year’s Chambers UK Bar Awards 2020 and we are delighted that St John’s Chambers has been shortlisted for ‘Regional Set of the Year’. To be ranked by Chambers means that our set and its members are at the top of the profession. To be shortlisted at the Chambers Bar…
22nd September 2020
The Queen has appointed Stephanie Louise Cope to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Robert Buckland QC MP and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon. The Lord Chief Justice has deployed her to the Western Circuit, based…
15th September 2020
We are delighted to announce that Family barrister Sarah Phillimore has been shortlisted for Family Law Commentator of the Year Law Awards. To show your support and vote for Sarah, please click here Sarah has specialised in public law family proceedings from about 2000 in London, moving to St Johns Chambers in 2010. She began…
11th August 2020
We are delighted to announce that the Head of our Divorce and Finanical Remedy team, Zoë Saunders, will now be able to provide mediation in civil and family cases. Having practiced in family law Zoë is well aware of the toll that the stress and uncertainty of litigation can take on clients and how costs can…
