Child Care Conference 2022 – Save the date!

Save the date for our annual Child Care Conference 2022, as we return to the Park Regis Hotel on 21 October 2022, for another fantastic day. Full details coming soon!   ... Continue Reading

Head of Chambers, Elizabeth Isaacs QC, provides guidance at White Paper Conference

In this video clip, Elizabeth Isaacs QC, provides guidance at the White Paper Conference: Public Children: Shaping New Law into Solution-Focused Advice for your Clients. She considers the question: How do ... Continue Reading

Malvika Jaganmohan completes 25 for 25: The Pro Bono Challenge

To celebrate Advocate’s 25th Anniversary, 25 for 25: The Pro Bono Challenge was launched in June 2021. This Challenge was conceived as a way to celebrate the amazing pro bono efforts of the Bar. As part... Continue Reading

Criminal Practice Group – Policy on No Returns

St Ives Chambers fully supports the Criminal Bar Association’s position that neither the level of remuneration offered nor the government’s proposed timetable for implementation represent an adequa... Continue Reading

St Ives Chambers welcomes new Criminal Practice Group Manager, Daniel Giles.

St Ives Chambers is delighted to welcome Daniel Giles as Practice Manager of the Criminal Practice Group. Daniel joins Chambers from St Philips Chambers and brings with him a wealth of experience from the ... Continue Reading

St Ives CPG supports the CBA’s proposed action.

The St Ives CPG welcomes the CBA’s proposed action due to the Government’s wholly inadequate response to the Criminal Legal Aid Review. Upon reflection it is clear that the funds proposed by CLAR, reco... Continue Reading

Importance of vulnerability and imbalance of power in modern slavery cases and section 4, Fraud Act 2006

Ben Douglas-Jones QC, leading Chris Buttler QC and Katy Sheridan (both of Matrix) appeared for the claimant in R (on the application of L) v DPP [2022] EWHC 601 (Admin), a further successful JR of the DPPâ... Continue Reading

Elizabeth Isaacs QC, Kirstie Danton and Elisabeth Richards involved in key fact-finding case; Re T (No.2) (Care Proceedings: Fact-Finding: Genital Injuries) [2021] EWFC 101

Three Members of chambers, including Head of Chambers  Elizabeth Isaacs QC, appeared in a recent case where Gwyneth Knowles J found that “The failure [of medical professionals] to recognise what was in ... Continue Reading

Malvika Jaganmohan selected for Pegasus Scholarship

Chambers congratulates Malvika Jaganmohan on being selected to be an outgoing Pegasus Scholar this year. The Pegasus Trust, supported by The Inner Temple, is a champion of forging links between lawyers aro... Continue Reading

Ben Douglas-Jones QC appeared for the Crown in this important case on victims of human trafficking in which the Vice-President has given guidance on a number of topics

R v AAD, AAH and AAI [2022] EWCA Crim 106 Anonymity in appeals against convictions of alleged victims of trafficking who commit criminal acts is to be decided as per Hallett LJ’s approach in R v L; R v N... Continue Reading