The High Court has found that a prison acted unlawfully in opening a prisoner’s confidential mail in R (Xavier) v Governor of HMP Whitemoor and…
Poole J, sitting in the Administrative Court, has today allowed the judicial review claims brought on behalf of three individuals (AB, NLK and AD) against…
No5’s Public Law Group are delighted with the 2022 Legal 500 rankings and extend their warm thanks to the clients who took the time to…
No5’s Philip Rule defended the ‘Justice 4 The 21 Group’ campaigners Julie Hambleton, Kevin Gormley, John Porter and Michael Lutwyche, who faced trial after refusing to pay…
Henry Pitchers QC, Philip Rule and Ramya Nagesh, instructed by Hodge Jones & Allen solicitors, have presented to the Coroner the family of Saskia Jones’s submissions aimed at…
The jury has delivered its conclusions following the 7-week inquest investigating the death of Saskia Jones, and Jack Merritt, who were killed by a terrorist…
No5’s Philip Rule has successfully challenged a prohibition preventing two married transgender prisoners from communicating with one another. In MA v Secretary of State for…
Philip Rule of No5 Barristers’ Chambers was instructed by KRW LAW LLP to represent relatives and supporters of those killed in The Birmingham Pub Bombings…
The Turks and Caicos Islands Court of Appeal has allowed the appeal of three detainees in Kajeepan and others v Director of Immigration and Attorney-General…
On 23 December 2020 the Divisional Court handed down judgment allowing the judicial review brought by No5’s Philip Rule and quashing this decision, in R…
In RM v Manchester City Council CO/1844/2020, on 3 and 4 December 2020, the Administrative Court considered a guidance document used by this local authority, and apparently…
Court of Appeal quashes IPP sentence ‘hybrid order’ imposed in 2012 and replaces with Hospital and Restriction Order In N v R [2020] EWCA Crim…
Michael Mansfield QC and Philip Rule appear in Divisional Court in challenging the DPP over the failure to consider the Dominic Cummings affair. On Tuesday…
At an oral hearing at the Administrative Court on 28 October 2020, listed to consider the application for interim relief made on behalf of the…
No5 Barristers’ Chambers Public Law group is very pleased to note its members ‘and many of its practice areas being recognised in the 2021 Chambers…
