This article is part of the Prison law during the coronavirus pandemic series: On 24 March 2020, prisons in England and Wales closed to visitors in order…
This article is part of the Prison law during the coronavirus pandemic series: A recent letter from the Parole Board published on social media by Dean…
Dear Friends and Colleagues Witnessing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic across the world and in the UK we are, now more than ever, concerned…
This article is part of the Prison law during the coronavirus pandemic series: Health care Rule 20(1) of the Prison Rules 1999 provides that: ‘The governor…
This article is part of the Prison law during the coronavirus pandemic series: Mental capacity An imminent announcement is expected in respect of early prison release…
This article originally appeared New Law Journal vol. 170, 28 Feb 2020 and is republished with the kind permission of NLJ. Barrister Philip Rule examines…
Two reserved judgments have both been delivered on 23 January 2020 in which Philip Rule succeeded on behalf of two very different clients. In R…
Two counsel from No5 Barristers’ Chambers have been shortlisted in the Barrister of the Year category for the Modern Law Awards 2020. Phillip Rule and…
Legal insights on inquests including an update on how suicide is now viewed by the law will be given at an annual seminar to be…
On Thursday 5 September the JW Marriott Hotel in Bogotá, Colombia, welcomes the Bar Council’s English Law Week in Colombia 2019 event. Following the successful…
On 28 May 2019 Philip Rule, No5 Barristers’ Chambers, spoke at the Faculty of Law building at the University of Oxford to a selection of…
Philip was instructed on behalf of the defendant to proceedings before the Southwark Crown Court. The case was brought by the Financial Conduct Authority for…
In a reserved judgment handed down on 26 October 2018 the Divisional Court (Lord Justice Holroyde and Mr Justice Green, as he then was) allowed…
The Court (Presided over by the Rt Hon Sir John Goldring, President, the Hon Sir Richard Field and the Hon Dennis Morrison, Justices of Appeal) announced…
to be aborted on its fifth day. The Court observed that the authorities in this area indicate that it is only in rare cases that…