This week’s blog is brought to you by Laura Dawson pupil to Philip Morgan   Electric scooters are becoming more and more popular especially with students and are being trialled in multiple cities across the UK with the possibility in some cities to rent an electric scooter or E-Scooter. Over the last few years E-Scooters […]

                David Mason has been appointed as a Legal Adviser to Social Work England, the regulatory body for all social workers in England. This adds to David’s portfolio of professional regulators as Legal Adviser. He currently fills that role for: The General Medical Council The General Dental Council […]

Dere Street Barristers were really excited to be invited to sponsor Niamh Boothroyd who has been selected to play for the England Schools Football Association Under 15’s Girls.  No sooner had we taken on the sponsorship of Niamh for the remainder of the international season we saw Niamh score her first international goal on Sunday […]

Michael Cahill successfully defended 5 defendants accused of being members of an Organised Crime Group by Northumbria Police. The applications were brought by the Police under s34 Policing and Crime Act 2009 and if successful the injunctions would have imposed limitations on the defendants’ rights of assembly; would have required them to register vehicle registrations […]

          This week’s blog is brought to you by Laura Dawson pupil to Philip Morgan   The recent case of Shittu v South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust [2022] EAT 18 has provided the proper approach of a Tribunal to the quantification of consequential loss and evaluates the approach considered in […]

  John Elvidge QC and Jolyon Perks of CPS Northumbria prosecuted the case. Media coverage of the case can be found here [please use a hyperlink below]. The defendants will be sentenced at a later date.   Media coverage can be found here      

This weeks blog is brought to you by Sarah Preest -pupil to Ravi Randawa D and E (Parent with Autism) [2020] EWFC [144]“Mild autism doesn’t mean one experiences autism mildly… It means you experience their autism mildly.” It is essential that a parent with an autism spectrum condition receives a diagnosis as soon as is […]

Good luck to our pupils, Grace Atkinson, Laura Callaghan, Laura Dawson and Sarah Preest who embark upon their second six pupillage today.  If you require any further information regarding their experience then please see their individual profiles or contact one of our clerks.    

    It was with great sadness that members of chambers and staff learnt of the sudden and premature death of our former colleague and friend Duncan Smith at the age of just 66. Duncan was a great character who graced a number of chambers on the North Eastern Circuit including our own. He was […]

This week’s blog is brought to you by Grace Atkinson – pupil to Frazer McDermott   The number of potential modern slavery victims referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) has risen from 2,340 in 2014 to over 10,000 in 2020. Labour and criminal exploitation are the most prevalent forms of modern slavery identified in […]