Apr 3, 2024 | News
The recent authority of TK v AC [2023] EWHC 2958 (Fam) is interesting as it considers the question of whether a party can properly be ordered to pay maintenance out of debt. Background – initial order The case has an unusual factual matrix. It concerned a short...
Mar 31, 2024 | News
No fewer than 7 Cornwall Street Barristers were instructed in the high-profile Bailey Atkinson murder trial murder trial which concluded yesterday at Nottingham Crown Court. As reported widely in the media, Mr Atkinson was stabbed to death in a revenge attack in...
Mar 28, 2024 | News
Christopher Pembridge, instructed by Bains Solicitors, secured an acquittal for his client at Northampton Crown Court on the sole count of rape. The defendant, a man of previous good character and a father of three, had been in a short relationship with the...
Mar 27, 2024 | News
Alban Brahimi, instructed by the CPS, secured guilty verdicts in a domestic violence incident where the defendant hit his ex-partner with a baseball bat and significantly damaged her property. He then punched another male and brandished two large kitchen knives...
Mar 25, 2024 | News
Tim Jacques recently represented claimants in a claim to determine the boundary between neighbouring gardens. The claimants’ neighbour had moved the fence, enclosing a substantial proportion of the claimants’ garden. He sought to justify this by reliance upon the plan...
Mar 22, 2024 | News
Megan Fletcher-Smith, instructed by Sarah Roberts of The Purkiss Partnership, secured an acquittal in a 4 day aggravated burglary trial at Exeter Crown Court this week. Megan’s client was alleged to have entered his former partner’s home with a knife, in the early...
