No5 Barristers’ Chambers are pleased to announce Philip Vollans is to be appointed as an Assistant Coroner for Stoke-on-Trent and North & South Staffordshire. Philip…
No5’s Philip Vollans discusses the growing requirement for individuals to be reminded of the new normal working practices as the regulatory professional bodies continue to…
Introduction The Building Safety Act (BSA) has now been given Royal Assent, which requires all those involved in planning and phased construction to adhere to…
We are proud to announce that Philip Vollans has been successfully awarded the Pegasus Scholarship to India by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple….
Sentencing Code At the start of December, we observed a consolidation of the sentencing procedure law into the Sentencing Act 2020. The Sentencing Code now…
Criminal practitioners will be aware of the recent introduction of the Sentencing Council’s guidelines regarding Firearms Offences which took effect from 1st January 2021. Whilst…
On 29th April 2020, following the decision in the case of R v Barton and Booth [2020] EWCA Crim 575, the Court of Appeal identified…
The Department for Social Security or more commonly referred to as ‘DSS’, was the government department responsible for providing benefit payments. The department was however…
