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Led by Edward Fitzgerald QC, Benjamin represented Mr Murphy. The Divisional Court found that no one could be extradited to two Greek prisons (Napflion and Korydallos), unless and until there was evidence of significant improvement due to clear breaches of…
Three national newspapers (The Times, Daily Mail, and The Mirror) were attempting to avoid paying any additional liabilities (success fees and ATE premiums) to privacy and defamation claimants funded by conditional fee agreements. The challenge was based upon the newspapers’…
Supreme Court. Newspapers’ Article 10 challenge to the payment of Additional Liabilities. James Laughland appeared as Junior Counsel for one of three Respondents in a combined leap-frog appeal brought by three newspapers (The Times, Daily Mail & Mirror) against their…
Supreme Court. Newspaper Article 10 challenge to the payment of Additional Liabilities. Simon Browne QC appeared for 23 separate Respondents in a three day challenge in the Supreme Court by the Appellant Newspaper (The Mirror) to pay success fees and…
Representing Georgia (being led by Ben Emmerson KC) in case against Russia before the European Court of Human Rights. The case concerns the conflict that broke out between Georgia and Russia in August 2008 in South Ossetia. Georgia is proceeding…
Directive 2000/78/EC and reasonable adjustments; application for permission to appeal. David Barr KC and Julia Smyth acted for the Ministry of Defence.
Acted in extended proceedings before the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and United Nations brought on behalf of those sentenced to death in mass trials in Egypt in 2014. Made representations before the Commission at its seat in…
Appeals to the Court of Appeal against the dismissal of judicial review proceedings which had challenged the lawfulness of the fees regime introduced in the Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal by the Lord Chancellor. The appeals were dismissed. …
Declarations of unlawfulness made in relation to delays in the processing of claims for personal independence payments. Associated human rights claims dismissed. David Barr KC and Nicholas Moss KC appeared on behalf of the Secretary of State.
Instructed on behalf of the Ministry of Justice in respect of a claim brought pursuant to the Human Rights Act 1998 in the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division. The Claimant alleged that the Defendant, through the actions of the Sheffield…
