A Singaporean shipping company, Pretty Time Shipping SA, has been convicted of being responsible for a palm oil spill which washed up on the Hampshire and Sussex coast. On 11 January 2010 members of the public found yellow waxy lumps on various south coast...

Queen Square Chambers are pleased to announce that, following a 24-year career as a criminal barrister, Lynne Matthews has been appointed a full time District Judge with immediate effect. Ms Matthews was sworn in on Thursday 13 th October at the Royal...

Queen Square Chambers is delighted to announce that James Bromige and Imogen McCabe have joined chambers. Their pupillage commenced on Monday 3rd October 2011....

Queen Square Chambers is delighted to have been named again as a Leading Set, in the most recent edition of the Legal 500 (2011). Chambers is recommended in the fields of Property, Construction, Crime, Employment, Family, Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence...

Queen Square Chambers is pleased to announce the creation of a specialist Regulatory Department. The new department will draw on existing knowledge, skills and experience within Chambers to bring together under one roof a team capable of addressing the...

On the 20th May the EAT held that the Cardiff employment tribunal had erred in it's findings in relation to the interpretation of the collective agreement it had made with the Musicians Union governing dismissal for poor artistic performance. The error of...

Fulcrum Pharma (Europe) Ltd v Bonassera and anor 22.10.10 EAT/0198/10/DM Mrs Bonassera was employed by Fulcrum Pharma (Europe) Ltd ("Fulcrum") as HR Manager. She took up that position in 2007 when Fulcrum acquired another company where Mrs...

Queen Square Chambers is pleased to announce that Douglas Leach has been appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional Panel), with effect from 8th November 2010. The appointment is for a period of five years. He will act for government departments and...

Queen Square Chambers welcome new tenants Georgia Lay and Sarah Jennings Chambers is pleased to announce that Georgia Lay and Sarah Jennings have accepted tenancies after successfully completing their pupillages. Georgia Lay will be specialising in...

The Queen Square Chambers Crime Team is pleased to announce its Winter 2010 Seminar Programme. The series features seminars in Bristol and Cardiff each carrying 2 hours of CPD. The focus is on 'Young Offenders' but we also present a '2010 Top Ten' of...

The Queen Square Chambers Employment Team is pleased to announce our Autumn 2010 Seminar Programme. The series will feature four seminars across the West Country and Wales and will explore the provisions and likely impact of the Equality Act 2010. The...

Queen Square Chambers is delighted to have received the latest in a long line of annual recommendations, in the most recent edition of the Legal 500 (2010). Chambers is recommended in the fields of Crime, Employment, Family, Personal Injury/Clinical...

Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary v Peters (14.07.10) EAT/0322/10/ZT Mrs Peters is a serving Police Officer with over 20 years’ experience. In a road traffic accident in 2003, she suffered injuries and subsequently presented with...

31st March 2010 The Court of Appeal has today handed down its judgement in the case of Launahurst Ltd v Larner. The decision makes clear that the conduct of the parties cannot overide the contractual terms in determining employee status, without a...

The government’s temporary reduction in the rate of vat is about to expire. With effect from the 1 st January 2010 all new work undertaken will attract vat at 17.5%. However, because of the Bar’s special arrangements with regard to...

Queen Square Chambers welcomes  Kerry Gardiner  as a tenant. Kerry has joined the employment department .  ...

On the 22nd June 2009, the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, Stephen Otter, presented commendations to James Cranfield as a result of his work on Operation Fabula. The commendations read, in part: "On the 1st May 2009 five persons...

It is with great pleasure that the Employment Law Team here at Queen Square Chambers welcome Debbie Grennan to their ranks with effect from Monday 9th February. Debbie formely practiced from chambers in Exeter where she has built a successful practice,...

Today the EAT handed down it's decision in The Child Support Agency (Dudley) v Truman . This was the first time that the EAT had considered the question of appropriate comparators since the House of Lords judgment in London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm. ...

Queen Square Chambers Criminal Department will be holding the following CPD Seminars: 29th April 2009 - Bristol 12th May 2009 - Swindon 14th May 2009 - Exeter 21st May 2009 - Cheltenham 3rd June 2009 - Cardiff Venues and topics to be...

Queen Square Chambers welcomes Simon Tibbitts as a tenant having successfully completed his pupillage within Chambers....

Kay Firth-Butterfield has been invited to teach advocacy, negotiating and mediation at the University in Texas for the 2008 Fall semester. Her clerks will be accepting work for her for 2009....

An Inquest jury at Bristol Coroners court recently concluded that there were serious health and safety failures that led to the death of a member of the public visting the Concorde aircraft in September 2004. Christopher Taylor represented the family of...

Queen Square Chambers can now receive and send secure e-mails. When sending e-mails into chambers use the standard address including cjms.net. i.e. civil@qs-c.co.uk.cjms.net    ...

Queen Square Chambers congratulates Alice Darian, James Byrne and Jonathan Heard, who have all successfully completed their pupilage within Chambers and have now been taken on as full tenants....