CTSI Symposium 2018
June 7, 2018Gough 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, 2018Gough 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, 2018In 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, 2018Senior 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, 2018On 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, 2018On 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, 2018On 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, 2018HHJ 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, 2018An 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, 2018In 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, 2018On 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, 2018The High Court has handed down judgment in Lukan v Ghana Commercial Finance Ltd (in liquidation) [2018] EWHC 418 (QB). Julian Gun Cuninghame represented...