news from 09.2008

26.09.2008

The Chambers Bar Awards 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008

Members of Chambers were at the event to celebrate Anthony Scrivener QC receiving a lifetime achievement award.

We are also delighted that Mary Cook won the Environment/Planning Junior of the Year award for the second time. Mary had won this previously in 2006.

Click here to see a full list of those successful in each category.

Click here for a photo of Mary receiving her award on stage.

Lynne Orsborn
Chambers’ Director

18.09.2008

Bar Awards 2008: 2- 3 Gray's Inn Square Nominations
Thursday, September 18, 2008

We are delighted to be able to announce that we have two reasons to be pleased about the contents of this year’s ceremony which is to be held at the Grosvenor Square Hotel on 25 September.

• Anthony Scrivener QC will be presented with a lifetime achievement award: something we all feel is very well deserved.
• Mary Cook has been nominated again for the award she won in 2006:
  Environment/Planning: Junior of the Year

Lynne Orsborn
Chambers’ Director

15.09.2008

Standards Committees Conference (Wales) 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008

The third annual Conference was held at Aberystwyth University.

Anthony Porten QC was invited to speak at the Conference and gave two papers:

1.  A case review: Neath Port Talbot CBC v. Linda Ware
2. ‘Defining personal and prejudicial interests: learning from the English Experience.’

The other speakers at the Conference were Sir Christopher Kelly, Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life; Mr Peter Davies, President of the Adjudication Panel for Wales; and Mr Peter Tyndall, Public Services Ombudsman for Wales.

10.09.2008

Legal 500 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The 21st edition of the Legal 500 was launched on Tuesday 9 September 2008. Members of Chambers did very well and we were mentioned in a number of sections. We are delighted that the range and quality of the work we have been doing over the last year was recognised: there is a nearly 40% increase in mentions in this edition which is a tribute to the expertise in our areas of practice across the board in Chambers.

Brief details of the categories where we are mentioned, and who, are below.  If you would like further details from the Legal 500 website, click here.

Category:

1. Leading Civil Common Law Sets
Chambers

2. Administrative and Public Law
Chambers
Leading Silk; Mark Lowe QC, David Matthias QC
Leading Juniors; Jon Holbrook, Ranjit Bhose, Wayne Beglan, Bryan McGuire, Damien Welfare

3. Consumer
Chambers
Leading Silk; Anthony Scrivener QC
Leading Juniors; Gerard Forlin, Geoffrey Stephenson, Peter Miller
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4. Environment
Chambers
Leading Silk; Mark Lowe QC
Leading Juniors; Simon Bird, Harriet Townsend

5. Health and Safety
Chambers
Leading Silk; Anthony Scrivener QC
Leading Junior; Gerard Forlin

6. Licensing
Chambers
Leading Silk; James Findlay QC
Leading Juniors; Philip Kolvin, Karl Davies, Ranjit Bhose, Asitha Ranatunga

7. Planning
Chambers
Leading Silks; Mark Lowe QC, Anthony Dinkin, QC, Anthony Porten QC, Morag Ellis QC, James Findlay QC, Vincent Fraser QC, Stephen Sauvain QC
Leading Juniors; Mary Cook, Simon Bird, Michael Druce, Robin Green, Richard Ground, Melissa Murphy, Adrian Trevelyan Thomas, Ian Albutt, Michael Bedford, Johanna Boyd, Josef Cannon, Jonathan Clay, Thomas Cosgrove, Nicholas Nardecchia, Paul Shadarevian.