4th July 2022
Adam Boyle, appearing before the Honourable Mr Justice Ritchie, successfully defended the appeal on all of the grounds brought against the respondents in the case of Banks v Blount [2022] EWHC 1491 (QB). Instructed by Esther Stirling and Rosie Lewis of Harrison Clark Rickerbys, Adam was brought in especially for the appeal, which related to…
7th December 2021
St John’s Chambers is pleased to announce that Harry Spurr has joined our planning and environmental, real estate and mediation teams. Harry was called to the Bar in 2001, and specialises in environmental, planning and other aspects of local government and regulatory law concerning the use of land, such as highways, town and village greens…
30th September 2021
St John’s Chambers is pleased to announce that Brittany Pearce, formerly of Guildhall Chambers, Bristol, has joined our Real Estate and Wills & Trusts teams. Brittany was called to the Bar in 2015, and is ranked as a ‘rising star’ in tier 1 for The Legal 500 guide in her specialist areas. She is described…
1st April 2021
St John’s Chambers is proud to announce that on 1st April 2021, three new pupils commenced their pupillage in our successful Family & Divorce, Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury and Commercial & Chancery teams. Diana Pannizzon-Pineda who joins our Family & Divorce team will be under the supervision of Julia Belyavin. Whilst Diana was studying at the University of…
4th February 2021
Dr Rachel Segal of St John’s Chambers has produced the latest edition of the Denton Resource – an invaluable time-saving aid for practitioners finding themselves on either side of relief from sanctions applications. The Resource (covering relevant higher court authorities reported up to 31 December 2020) now summarises 250 judgments on relief from sanctions since…
30th November 2020
The Court of Appeal has considered claims to an interest in the family home when in the name of one member of the family under the constructive trust doctrine, the need for detrimental reliance and what amounts to detrimental reliance in fact in O’Neill v Holland [2020] EWCA Civ 1583. Leslie Blohm QC led Michael…
23rd October 2020
We are delighted to announce that we have been hugely successful in this year’s Chambers UK Bar 2021 Guide. We have been recognised in a total of 22 major areas of law, with 1 of our barristers ranked as a star individual, 3 up and coming, 17 of our barristers ranked in Band 1 and…
22nd April 2020
Members of St John’s Chambers’ Wills & Trusts, Real Estate and Commercial teams continue to offer the full range of mediation services during the COVID-19 Lockdown through the use of the Zoom Pro video conferencing platform. This allows the mediation to take place remotely, with the mediator being able to move between virtual rooms where…
22nd April 2020
Natasha Dzameh, a commercial and chancery barrister, recently successfully represented an administrator in 2 joined trials in the High Court, Business and Property Court in Wales, Property, Trusts and Probate List (Ch D) before HHJ Keyser QC (Scott v Allen [2019]; Smith, Binns & Clarke v Scott [2020]). The original listing was 3 days. The…
31st March 2020
St John’s Chambers, Property team looks at the ‘right to roam’ and to exercise outside the home in the light of the Covid-19 Coronavirus restrictions and regulations. Click here to read the full article here
