Legal Advice Privilege
February 21, 2014Supreme Court confirms that client’s right to claim Legal Advice Privilege only applies to advice given by professionally qualified lawyers In its recent judgment...
Chambers & Partners 2014
February 21, 2014Gough Square is once again the top ranked chambers for Consumer Law, including consumer credit.
Meaning of ‘Commercial Practice’ under CPUT
February 20, 2014R v Christopher Steele [2012] C.T.L.C. 109 On 17th April 2012 Mr Recorder Lowe QC sitting in the Snaresbrook Crown Court accepted defence submissions by...
Torfaen CBC v Douglas Willis Ltd Supreme Court judgment
February 19, 2014On 31st July 2013 the Supreme Court handed down its judgment on use-by dates. Jonathan Kirk QC and Iain MacDonald, both of Gough Square,...
The Pink Book published by Jordan in June 2013
February 18, 2014Jordan has published the third edition of ‘Consumer and Trading Standards Law and Practice’ (the ‘Pink Book’). The authors include six members of chambers,...
Leading Commercial Practices Cases under 2008 Unfair Trading Regulations
February 17, 2014Jonathan Kirk QC, who joined Gough Square Chambers in 2011, and Jonathan Goulding appeared in a significant case on the Consumer Protection from Unfair...
Sentencing impecunious defendants for health & safety offences
February 16, 2014Nottingham CC v Nkanka: HH Judge Sampson QC was set a difficult sentencing task in the Nottingham Crown Court for a charge under s.4...
Claire Andrews introduces a new food law blog
February 15, 2014Claire Andrews introduces a new food law blog, 'Food Law Conversations', to which she invites those interested in food law to contribute.
Costs Reforms – April 2013
April 2, 2013The implementation date for these reforms is April 2013 (the newly appointed Dyson MR recently denied that this date could be pushed back). Most...