News
10th August 2010
General Dental Council Appointments
The Public Law and Regulatory Group is pleased to announce that the General Dental Council (GDC) has appointed nine new Legal Assessors from Chambers. Congratulations go to: Mr Michael Parroy QC, Mr Michael Vere-Hodge QC, Mr Peter Jennings, Mr Ben Stephenson, Mr Nicholas Leviseur, Mr David Marshall, Mr Adam Hiddleston, Mr Iain Ross and Mr Mark Sutherland Williams.
Chambers now has 13 members that sit with the GDC.
28th July 2010
Eastern Caribbean Seminars
Mark Sutherland Williams has accepted an invitation from the Eastern Caribbean Financial Investigation Advisory Team based at the High Commission in Barbados to conduct a series of seminars in November 2010. MSW will travel to Barbados in October before embarking on the EC FIAT sponsored initiative to promote proceeds of crime legislation in the region. He will meet and address prosecutors, magistrates and other members of the judiciary as part of the initiative, beginning in the British Virgin Islands, before moving on to Antigua, Barbados and Trinidad.
MSW was last year invited to speak at the Eastern Caribbean Judicial Education Institute in St Lucia.
The photograph shows MSW with the Chief Justice of Barbados, SIr David Simmons and His Honour Judge Wadsworth QC.
27th July 2010
Civil recovery under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
AFG head Mark Sutherland Williams has had his latest article on civil recovery under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 published in the Criminal Bar Quarterly. The article, co-written with Tom Jaggar, a HMRC pupil formerly seconded to 3PB, considers the seismic changes that have occurred in civil recovery practice and procedure since Part 5 of POCA was originally introduced.
13th July 2010
Book Launch party
To launch the third edition of 'Millington and Sutherland Williams on the Proceeds of Crime' (OUP), the 3PB Public Law and 3PB Asset Forfeiture Groups held a summer party at the NLC in London tonight. They were joined by over 100 guests for a barbecue and drinks.
9th July 2010
AFG Charity Run
Members of the Asset Forfeiture Group last night put in a very credible performance at the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge run in Battersea Park. The team, comprising Rupert Jones, Oliver Powell, Paul Adams and Mark Sutherland Williams, all got round the 5.6k course in under 30 minutes. Team AFG joined 28,000 other runners, spread over two evenings, raising money for the charity Help a London Child.
7th July 2010
Italian Bar Council summer course
Peter Aeberli will be speaking at an Italian Bar Council summer course for Italian lawyers in the last week of July. This is the fifth course organised organised in London by the Council. The theme this year is "Arbitration, Mediation and Conciliation in Civil and Commercial Matters - International and European Perspectives" and the organisers are Guido Alpa, President of the Italian Bar Council, Mads Andenas, Andrea Biondi and Nello Pasquini.
6th July 2010
James Davies' case reported
James Davies' case of Everitt v Budhram has been reported in the Law Reports [2010] Ch 170. James represented the Trustee in Bankruptcy on a successful appeal from the County Court to the High Court. The appeal, before Mr Justice Henderson, considered the important question as to the meaning of "needs" of the bankrupt in Section 335A of the Insolvency Act 1986 along with the issue of whether a Court was entitled to consider the circumstances of the making of the original bankruptcy order on an application for an order for sale.
5th July 2010
Nigel Lickley QC elected new Leader of the Western Circuit
3PB are delighted to announce that Nigel Lickley QC has been elected the new Leader of the Western Circuit, his appointment will run from 1st October 2010. The Western Circuit is the largest in England and Wales with 1136 members and Nigel's role will be to represent the views of circuiteers to official bodies. 3PB members and staff wish him every success as Leader.
2nd July 2010
BHRC event - report on Mexico and the protection of human rights defenders
Adam Hiddleston of 3PB is one of the key speakers at the forthcoming Bar Human Rights Committee seminar on Thursday 15th July at the Committee Room 2 in the House of Lords. The evening is hosted by Lord Brennan, Labour Peer and Bar representative of the CIBA, and Adam and his fellow speakers will be presenting a report on the deteriorating situation for human rights defenders in Mexico. Please see details below to reserve a place and further information on venue and timings. There is 1.5 CPD for barristers attending.
BHRC event - report on Mexico and the protection of human rights defenders
Recalling the Rule of Law:
A report on the protection of human rights defenders and the rule of law in the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico
Thursday 15 July 2010
6pm-8pm
Committee Room 2, 1st Floor, House of Lords
The recent reports of attacks on international observers highlight more starkly than before the deteriorating situation for human rights defenders in Mexico, and the attention required by the international community to ensure that the fundamental principle of the rule of law is upheld in these difficult times.
The Bar Human Rights Committee (BHRC) will launch a report on the findings of a high-level delegation of human rights lawyers who were sent to the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca to investigate this worrying situation. The delegation carried out an independent and impartial audit of the human rights situation relating to the protection of human rights lawyers, pre-trial and pre-charge detention, and military jurisdiction.
Hosted by:
Lord Brennan, Labour Peer and Bar representative of the Council of the International Bar Association.
Report presented by:
Ajanta Kaza, Executive Committee Member, Bar Human Rights Committee and representative of the delegation of lawyers, and Adam Hiddlestone, Member of the English Bar and representative of the delegation of lawyers.
Addressees by:
Santiago Aguirre, Tiachinollan Human Rights Centre, a human rights lawyer who has represented cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and met with delegations during their visit to Mexico, and Lisa Marcani, Mexico Project Coordinator, Peace Brigades International.
1.5 CDP available to barristers.
For further information, please contact Ms Sally Longworth, BHRC Project Coordinator (Tel: +44 207 993 7755 / Email bhrc@compuserve.com)
20th June 2010
Garvin Nicholas appointed Press Secretary
Chambers congratulates 3PB door tenant, Garvin Nicholas, a member of the Eastern Caribbean bar and a former pupil at 3PB, on his appointment as Press Secretary for the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The Asset Forfeiture Group is in the process of developing further its links with the Caribbean, including enjoying an accommodation address with Garvin's chambers based there.