Successful defence of 3 requested persons after Greek Authorities failed to provide sufficient prison conditions assurance within a reasonable time
Hellenic Republic v Hysa and ors [2022] EWHC 2050 (Admin)
Mark Summers QC, leading Florence Iveson, of Matrix Chambers, as well as Benjamin Joyes and Stefan Hyman of 9 Bedford Row, successfully defended a first instance judgment discharging 3 requested persons wanted for serious offending, after Greek Authorities failed to provide a sufficient prison conditions assurance within a reasonable time. The judgment of Popplewell LJ […]
High Court dismisses claim for defamation in Banks v Cadwallader
[2022] EWHC 1417 (QB)
Arron Banks sued Carol Cadwallader in libel for a statement in a 2019 TED Talk published on the TED website. She then repeated the libel in a Tweet. The statement related to events surrounding his donations to Leave.EU. The defamatory meaning was that on more than one occasion Mr Banks had told untruths about a […]
High Court dismisses Benyatov litigation
Benyatov v Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd [2022] EWHC 135 (QB)
The High Court dismissed a long-running $86m loss of earnings claim by a former investment banker against his employer. The case was one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2020. In 2006-7, the Claimant, Mr Benyatov, was arrested, prosecuted and then convicted in Romania for commercial espionage and membership of an organised criminal group […]
Claimants successfully challenge Universal Credit Transitional Provisions once more
TP and AR (No.3) v SSWP, AB and F v SSWP [2022] EWHC 123 (Admin)
The High Court has upheld a claim for judicial review of the Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) (Claimants previously entitled to a sever disability premium) Amendment Regulations 2021. The Claimants sought to have Schedule 2 of the 2014 Regulations (preserved by Regulation 3 of the 2021 Regulations) declared unlawful in what was their third claim for […]
High Court considers application for judicial review over death at HMP Woodhill
R. (On the Application Of Canham) v Director of Public Prosecutions [2021] EWHC 3361
In this application for judicial review the claimant challenged the Director of Public Prosecution’s refusal to prosecute two prison officers (A and B), a member of healthcare staff (C), the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) for gross negligence manslaughter, a breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act, and corporate manslaughter, following the death of Robert Fenlon, a […]