9 King’s Bench Walk has recently been awarded Barmark, the Bar Council’s quality mark, and we are seeking to expand and build on our success.
Chambers currently has three vacancies for third six pupils with experience predominantly in Crime. We aim to recruit junior tenants from among our own pupils, and so we offer third sixes with a view to tenancy.
Successful applicants will be kept busy: they can expect to be doing defence cases in the magistrates’ courts every day, and we operate a Saturday rota. Third six pupils will have the opportunity to develop a Crown Court practise, prosecuting and defending.
We also encourage pupils to develop their own practise in family or civil law if they wish.
All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence and should be addressed to Richard Wood, Secretary to the Tenancy and Pupillage Committee, enclosing a CV. We have a robust equal opportunities policy.
Chambers of A. M. Azhar
9 King’s Bench Walk
Temple
London EC4Y 7DX
Tel: 0207 353 9564
Fax: 0207 353 7943
DX: 118 Chancery Lane
Regina (Raeside) v Luton Crown Court [2012] WLR (D) 120
“The purpose of a custody time limit would be undermined if the court granted an extension under section 22(3) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 in anything other than exceptional circumstances, and in the absence of the express consent of the defendant to the extension of that limit, the court must direct that an immediate application is made by the Crown and rigorously scrutinise the evidence to see if it is satisfied that there is good and sufficient cause.”
WLR Daily, 23rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Bagnall; Regina v Sharma [2012] EWCA Crim 677; [2012] WLR (D) 118
“Where, in confiscation proceedings, the Crown accused an offender of an additional specific offence for which he had not been prosecuted and adduced evidence to make that accusation good, that did not amount to the bringing of a new charge. Since the defendant was not at risk of any further conviction and there was no finding of guilt, the findings reached by the judge, applying the statutory assumptions, merely went to the amount of the order the court was obliged to make. There was no unfairness in requiring a defendant to show that the source of his assets was legitimate.”
WLR Daily, 18th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Wintersteiger AG v Products 4U Sondermaschinenbau GmbH (Case C-523/10); [2012] WLR (D) 117
“Article 5(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters meant that an action relating to infringement of a trade mark registered in a member state because of the use, by an advertiser, of a keyword identical to that trade mark on a search engine website operating under a country-specific top-level domain of another member state could be brought before either the courts of the member state in which the trade mark was registered or the courts of the member state of the place of establishment of the advertiser.”
WLR Daily, 19th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Meister v Speech Design Carrier Systems GmbH (Case C-415/10); [2012] WLR (D) 116
“European Union law did not entitle a worker who plausibly claimed to meet the requirements listed in a job advertisement and whose application was rejected to have access to information indicating whether the employer engaged another applicant at the end of the recruitment process. Nevertheless, it could not be ruled out that a refusal to grant any access to information might be one of the factors to take into account in the context of establishing facts from which it might be presumed that there had been direct or indirect discrimination.”
WLR Daily, 19th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“In his thought-provoking Guardian post Climate change is a human rights issue – and that’s how we can solve it, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, makes a case for human rights playing a radical new part in our response to climate change.”
Full story
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Six public bodies were fined over personal data security breaches in the last year despite hundreds of reported cases, a report said today.”
Full story
The Independent, 25th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The emails revealed between the minister and News Corporation lobbyists suggest a risk of bias, says legal commentator.”
Full story
The Guardian, 24th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Sufferers of asbestos-related cancer will initially be exempt from government changes to ‘no-win, no-fee’ rules, a justice minister has said.”
Full story
BBC News, 24th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police are planning to arrest a number of Twitter users who are alleged to have named the 19-year-old rape victim of Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans, and have launched an investigation into Sky News after it broadcast her name in a report.”
Full story
The Guardian, 24th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ali Naseem Bajwa QC considers the arguments for and against sentence discounts in terrorist cases.”
Full story
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 24th April 2012
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“The High Court has upheld the refusal of the broadcasting regulator to clear an advertisement for transmission on the grounds that it offended the prohibition on political advertising.”
Full story
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A former soldier was today convicted of a string of sex attacks during which he told one victim: ‘I don’t believe this, I’m a good-looking bloke’ when she rejected his advances.”
Full story
The Independent, 24th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Women who were sexually assaulted by cabbie John Worboys are suing him and his vehicle insurers, arguing he used his taxi to attack them.”
Full story
BBC News, 24th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“When women with children are sent to prison, who is being punished?”
Full story
The Guardian, 24th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two men have been found guilty of money-laundering charges following a £2.3m fraud against the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed.”
Full story
BBC News, 24th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two naked men started fires in a flat as part of a pagan ritual to get rid of ‘negative vibes’, a court heard.”
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 24th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The Housing Team at Garden Court seeks to recruit barristers with significant experience in housing law to meet the existing demands of our work and contribute to the expansion of our team.
Applications are invited for tenancy from practitioners of at least 5 years’ call or equivalent experience.
Garden Court Chambers is a leading multi-disciplinary set with a strong belief in human rights and social justice.
To download an application form, please visit our website:
www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk/join_us/tenancy.cfm
The closing date for applications is Thursday 7 June 2012 at 4:00pm
Garden Court is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination and to encourage diversity. Applications from ethnic minority and women candidates are particularly welcome. We seek to operate a fair recruitment policy.
Chambers of Michael Hubbard QC & Karim Khalil QC
Due to a surplus of work, Chambers are now accepting applications for: Third six month pupillages (Criminal) to start April 2012
As a specialist criminal set, we offer outstanding prospects for committed and talented individuals.
Please send covering letter and CV to Quinton Newcomb, 1 Paper Buildings, Temple, London EC4Y 7EP or quintonnewcomb@onepaper.co.uk as soon as possible.
Chambers operates an equal opportunities and diversity policy
