CTSI Symposium 2018

June 7, 2018

Gough Square Chambers attended the annual Chartered Trading Standards Institute (“CTSI”) Symposium, which was held in Nottingham. Chambers delivered a number of presentations over...

Alison Hollis joins Gough Square

June 7, 2018

Gough Square Chambers is delighted to announce that Alison Hollis has joined from 36 Group. Alison is a specialist consumer and regulatory lawyer with...

When Online Sellers become Traders

June 6, 2018

In the case of Kamenova (case C-105/17), the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) was called upon to consider the circumstances in...

Abuse of Process Case

June 6, 2018

Senior Master Fontaine has handed down judgment on an application to strike out an action brought by a dentist against the NHS under the...

FCA publishes outcome of high-cost credit review

May 31, 2018

On 31 May 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") published two consultation papers following its review of the high-cost credit market. In CP18/12 the...

FCA Consultation on Unfair Terms

May 19, 2018

On 17 May 2018, the FCA launched a consultation on proposed guidance on variation terms under unfair terms legislation (GC18/2). The consultation follows the...

Goods Mortgages Bill abandoned

May 15, 2018

On 14 May 2018, HM Treasury published its response to the Law Commission's proposed Goods Mortgages Bill. In light of the small and reducing...

‘Carney v Rothschild’ Unfair Relationships Case

May 11, 2018

HHJ Waksman QC, sitting as a Judge of the High Court, has handed down a detailed judgment in Carney v N M Rothschild & Sons...

Alternative Health Practitioner Prosecution

May 11, 2018

An alternative health practitioner who purported to be able to diagnose and treat disease using a method he called “live blood analysis” has been...

‘Wingate & Evans’ and Lack of Integrity at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal

April 10, 2018

In a recent article, Jeremy Barnett considers the recent case of Wingate & Evans v SRA [2018] EWCA Civ 366 and the definition of...

Court of Appeal decision on consent orders and regulated activites

March 29, 2018

On the 28 March 2018, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in the case of Fortwell Finance v Halstead, in which Simon Popplewell of...

Further Decision in ‘Barons Finance’ Litigation

March 14, 2018

The High Court has handed down judgment in Lukan v Ghana Commercial Finance Ltd (in liquidation) [2018] EWHC 418 (QB). Julian Gun Cuninghame represented...