Eleri Griffiths and Angelina Nicolao join One Pump Court

One Pump Court is pleased to announce that Eleri Griffiths and Angelina Nicolao have accepted our invitation to join our Chambers today.

Nicholas Nichol comments on the growing sex-for-rent crisis in the UK

There is a growing ‘sex-for-rent’ scandal currently brewing in the UK and beyond. Increasingly depressing is the proliferation and normalisation of this in many circles.

Area of Law: Sexual Offences

Related Barristers: Nicholas Nicol

The Article 4 Operational Duty for Victims of Human Trafficking. Case Comment: R (on the application of TDT, by his Litigation Friend Tara Topteagarden) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 1395

In the context of human trafficking, Article 4 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) imposes an “operational duty” to take positive steps to protect potential individual victims from being

Area of Law: Human Trafficking

Related Barristers: Angelina Nicolaou

Man with learning disabilities threatened with deportation because Government did not believe he was gay

The British government did not believe that an asylum-seeker who was fleeing homophobic persecution in Bangladesh was gay because he had learning disabilities. Buzzfeed recently published the article

Area of Law: Deportation

Related Barristers: Allan Briddock

Kings College London elects first ever Professor of Modern Slavery Law

The UK’s leading anti-slavery lawyer, Parosha Chandran, has been elected the first ever Professor of Modern Slavery Law at Kings College London

Related Barristers: Parosha Chandran

Immigration Bail: The New Routine

Part II: Limiting the Tribunal and bail for those who cannot be lawfully detained

Area of Law: Personal Immigration

R V MK: CLARIFYING THE DEFENCE IN SECTION 45 OF THE MODERN SLAVERY ACT

Human trafficking and modern slavery is one of the greatest human rights concerns of this generation.

Area of Law: Modern Slavery & Trafficking Team

Immigration Bail: The New Routine

Part I: Accommodation, Bail Management and the Future Compliance

The Owens Vs Owens Case Explained

Below Stephen Bartlet-Jones, Barrister at One Pump Court, explores some of the important considerations and remaining questions surrounding this complex family law case (Owens vs Owens).

Area of Law: Family

LOMAX V GOSPORT BC [2018]: COURT OF APPEAL ALLOWS HOMELESSNESS APPEAL AGAINST DECISION THAT DISABLED APPLICANT IS NOT HOMELESS WHERE LIVING CONDITIONS OF OTHERS IN THE AREA ARE “NOT IDEAL”.

The Court of Appeal today unanimously allowed an appeal in Lomax v Gosport Borough Council [2018] EWCA