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Crime General

Drill music as bad character evidence

Sasha Wass QC13th June 202113th June 2021

Introduction The past decade has seen the emergence of ‘drill music’ content increasingly used by the prosecution in criminal trials involving young, black, male defendants accused of gang-related offences. The...

Crime General Public and civil law

Maintaining public order vs. the right to protest – the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

Annabel Darlow QC16th April 202116th April 2021

The recent riots in Bristol and the police response to the Sarah Everard vigil have both served to spark a wider debate on the proper parameters that the legislature should...

Crime General

“Egregious” failings in expert evidence: a shot across the bows from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

Simon Ray17th February 2021

The conjoined appeals in R v Byrne and ors. [2021] EWCA Crim 107 related to the safety of convictions arising from separate trials in which the Crown had instructed the same expert,...

Crime

The Mangrove Nine and the history of English juries

Alex du Sautoy11th February 202112th February 2021

Criminal lawyers watching Steve McQueen’s Mangrove on the BBC last year may have raised an eyebrow or two during the scenes at the Old Bailey. Lawyers are used to seeing...

Extradition

The EAW is dead; long live the UK-EU Surrender Agreement

Rosemary Davidson1st January 202111th February 2021

The new post-Brexit extradition arrangements between the UK and the EU On Christmas Eve, the UK and the EU agreed the terms of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the...

General

How Machiavellian was Machiavelli?

David Perry QC7th December 20207th December 2020

In his slim book The Prince (published 1532, written in 1513), Niccolò Machiavelli made his now notorious assertion that the prince who hopes to succeed must learn ‘how not to...

General

‘A Dutiful Boy’ by Mohsin Zaidi

6KBW20th August 202019th August 2020

Chambers is extremely proud that Mohsin Zaidi’s memoir ‘A Dutiful Boy’ is published today, 20 August 2020. This exceptional and brave book highlights Mohsin’s personal experiences as a young, gay Muslim. Chambers supports...

General

Literary Bounty from the Chambers Family

Miranda Hill12th August 2020

While 2020 has seen parts of our legal system in a state of near paralysis, this year has been characterised by extraordinary accomplishments on the part of three exceptionally talented...

Weekly Digest

Digest: 20 July 2020

6KBW20th July 2020

This edition of the digest considers one judgment of the Supreme Court, two of the Court of Appeal, and two of the High Court. In Sutherland v HM Advocate the Supreme...

Crime General

Remote Courts – a view from home and abroad (Part 2)

Annabel Darlow QC6th July 20203rd July 2020

Our previous post reviewed the use of remote courts in domestic criminal proceedings and considered how the sharp increase in the courts’ use of technology may continue after the current...

Drill music as bad character evidence

Maintaining public order vs. the right to protest – the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

“Egregious” failings in expert evidence: a shot across the bows from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

The Mangrove Nine and the history of English juries

The EAW is dead; long live the UK-EU Surrender Agreement

How Machiavellian was Machiavelli?

‘A Dutiful Boy’ by Mohsin Zaidi

Literary Bounty from the Chambers Family

Digest: 20 July 2020

Remote Courts – a view from home and abroad (Part 2)

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