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The Inquiry has appointed 49 junior Counsel to join its legal team to support Hugo Keith QC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry, Martin Smith, Solicitor to the Inquiry and eleven recently appointed Queen’s Counsel with the preparation and delivery of…
Rhys Davies was quoted in the Guardian following a finding by the United Nations that his client, Ryan Cornelius, has been arbitrarily detained. The UN has called for Mr Cornelius’s immediate release as well as the payment of reparations. The…
Today and tomorrow, Russell Hopkins is participating in the Second Expert Group Meeting on Rethinking Secondary Liability for International Crimes (SLIC), at the University of Amsterdam. This important project aims to develop a legal framework, based on theory and practice,…
Zeenat Islam is participating in a roundtable discussion to be held on 10 June 2022 about the role of public inquiries in an event organised by the University of Warwick. The event is hosted by the Warwick Centre for Human…
In a landmark moment in the case of Ryan Cornelius, a British national imprisoned in the UAE, the United Nations has ruled that Mr Cornelius has been arbitrarily detained. Mr Cornelius was arrested in 2008 has been held in custody…
Oxbotica has announced its successful first test of a zero-occupancy autonomous vehicle on a publicly-accessible road. Oxbotica is developing a goods delivery variant of its vehicle with Ocado group to complete customer orders from 2023. Alex Glassbrook advised Oxbotica on…
The Inquiry has announced a team of 11 QC’s to join its legal team to support Hugo Keith KC, Lead Counsel to the Inquiry, and Martin Smith solicitor to the Inquiry.
The second phase of hearings in the Brook House Inquiry have resumed. The Brook House Inquiry was set up to investigate mistreatment of individuals detained at Brook House IRC between 1 April 2017 and 31 August 2017. The Inquiry was…
The Telegraph reports on an application for sanctions filed with the FCDO by Rhys Davies and Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill Chambers on behalf of Ryan Cornelius. The application is supported by a cross-party group of Peers and…
The Court of Appeal has today handed down judgment in an important appeal concerning the principles of finality and res judicata in Tribunal proceedings, and the circumstances in which the Tribunal can permissibly depart from previous findings in cases involving…
