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Judicial Commendation

Admin, 17 January 2012

Peter Pride has been commended by HHJ Lees, the trial judge for his prosecution of a recent serious and complex Operation Trident case (R v Williams [2011], Inner London Crown Court)

Highly Irregular Judgments

Admin and David Giles, 10 January 2012

It’s a piece of cake for the unscrupulous or incompetent to obtain an irregular judgment in default against a defendant who would otherwise choose to defend the claim.  The rules which are meant to protect the defendant are easily circumvented. Civil practitioner David Giles provides us with one such recipe.

New tenants

Admin, 9 January 2012

We are very pleased to welcome 2 new tenants to chambers.

Attitudes to immigration changing

Admin and Guest, 6 January 2012

Guest writer Henry Oliver, of Mulberry Finch, explains why contrary to expectations, the more people are exposed to immigration, the better their attitude to immigrants is.

Vacancy for criminal third-six

Admin, 21 December 2011

Due to an excess of work, 1 Gray’s Inn Square Chambers invites applications for a third six pupillage to commence 1st February 2012.

Vacancy for junior tenant

Admin, 21 December 2011

Following our recent success in the Lambeth and Southwark barristers’ framework, 1 Gray’s Inn Square invites applications for an exceptional junior tenant to join our civil/commercial team.

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