ARTICLES by our Direct Access Barristers

In the case of DKH Retail Ltd and others v City Football Group Ltd   [2024] EWHC 3231 (Ch) the Court concluded that it had the power under CPR 3.1(2) (p) to conduct and require a mediation and not merely an early neutral evaluation. This follows a line of earlier cases, although it appears to be significant in being the first time that the Court has compelled mediation. There is an understandable appeal in some cases for compulsory mediation, although the difficulty with this

In the case of Evans Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2025] UKFTT 1112 (TC) - https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukftt/tc/2025/1112#download-options - a judge in the Upper Tax Tribunal used AI to assist him in the making of a case management decision. The decision did not involve any ruling on witness credibility and the use of AI was for summarising the documents and not for legal research. The judge stated that this was a proper use of AI, namely as a tool. The jud

Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a Palestinian Doctor practising in the UK, was subject to an interim suspension by the GMC. See https://www.mpts-uk.org/-/media/mpts-rod-files/dr-aladwan-iot_new_suspension_15-months.pdf for the decision. The case largely concerns allegations of antisemitism. I do not know what definition of antisemitism is being employed by the GMC. They may be using the IHRA definition. This definition appears to include the making of empirical claims, which in turn

I have written on this blog before about ‘Anarcho-Tyranny’; see https://www.jsc-chambers.co.uk/post/anarcho-tyranny-joseph-chiffers . An almost perfect example of this has been provided recently by the case of Elizabeth Kinney, an alleged assault victim who in a private message to a friend, described the alleged perpetrator as a “faggot” [1] ; see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15302729/Assault-victim-convicted-homophobic-hate-crime.html To quote from the article: “

This article is about the cases of Lucy Connelly and Ricky Jones and whether they reveal a form of two-tier justice.   Due to pressure of...

In R(Metropolitan Police Commissioner) v Police Misconduct Panel [2025] EWHC 1462 (Admin) 17 June 2025 (see https://www.bailii.org/ew/cas...

The BSB has dropped its proposal to place a positive duty on barristers to promote Equality and Diversity, see HERE . This duty would...

Introduction This article will address the merits of a potential challenge to the United States tariffs under President Donald Trump’s...

In a recent case the Court decided that the Defendant could not effectively grant the Court jurisdiction, by submitting a defence and...

HERE is a recent judgment from the ECtHR.  The judgment found that French law was incompatible with the ECHR, because it allowed the...

I appreciate that the title of this article may be rather dull, but anyone contemplating becoming involved in serious litigation should...

As Christmas approaches, my time for writing articles is limited. I have therefore simply reproduced a truncated version of our...

We are pleased to announce that we will be considering pupillage applications for 2025. I am, in a sense, wholly unqualified to give...

Lucy Connelly was sentenced yesterday to a term of 31 months imprisonment, after she pleaded guilty to the offence of publishing material...

Section 21 evictions are due to be scrapped under new legislation.  This legislation is not yet in force and before coming into force, it...

Introduction The allegation that the UK is implementing a two-tier criminal justice system has recently gained prominence.  The meaning...

In a recent Judgment the Supreme Court found that a pilot's illness did not amount to an extraordinary circumstance, for the purposes of...

I wrote a brief article about the Sam Melia conviction, see HERE .  I also mentioned the case in my article about Anarcho-Tyranny, see...

The term anarcho-tyranny was first coined by Samuel Francis, see HERE  & HERE .  Francis states:    “What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny—the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such a