Speakers are:
🎤 Matt Foot - @appealcharity.bsky.social
🎤Pete Weatherby KC, Anna Morris KC and
@mirahammad.bsky.social - Garden Court North Chambers
🎤 Chris Peace and Kate Flannery - @orgreavejustice.bsky.social
🎤 Professor Claire McGourlay - The University of Manchester
This year's lecture will examine the pressing issues of wrongful convictions, proposed changes to the right to trial by jury, and the announcement of a public inquiry into Orgreave. It commemorates the life and contributions of Mark George KC, former Head of Garden Court North.
📢 MARK GEORGE KC MEMORIAL LECTURE - DATE ANNOUNCED 📢
The Mark George KC Memorial Lecture, which will examine the issue of wrongful convictions, will take place at the University of Manchester on Tuesday 21 April, from 5:30-7:30pm.
Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mark-georg...
Anna, Pete Weatherby KC, Kate Stone and Christian Weaver formed Garden Court North’s Covid-19 Inquiry Team for Module 10, instructed to represent CBFFJ UK by @nicolabrookbjc.bsky.social, Elkan Abrahamson, Clare Fletcher and Zoe McConville of @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social.
Earlier today, Garden Court North's Anna Morris KC delivered the closing submission to Module 10 of the Covid-19 Inquiry on behalf of Covid Bereaved Families for Justice (CBFFJ) UK.
More about the submission and Module 10 below.
gcnchambers.co.uk/covid-19-inq...
Garden Court North's @mirahammad.bsky.social and Rosalind Burgin represented co-defendants Ms Oxlade and Ms Coote in the eight-day jury trial at Newcastle Crown Court, instructed by Nicola Hall of Robert Lizar Solicitors.
Read the full article below.
gcnchambers.co.uk/mira-hammad-...
Mira and Rosalind are part of Garden Court North's protest rights team. They are instructed by Nicola Hall of Robert Lizar Solicitors at the ongoing trial at Newcastle Crown Court.
Extensive coverage in BBC News of @mirahammad.bsky.social and Rosalind Burgin's cross-examination of Mr Guthrie from Pearson Engineering.
Garden Court North's Mira and Rosalind represent defendants accused of criminal damage in the course of a protest.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Garden Court North’s Anna Morris KC, @ciarabartlam.bsky.social and Lily Lewis were instructed by Charlotte Haworth Hird and Amy Ooi from Bhatt Murphy to represent @inquest-org.bsky.social and the bereaved families.
From 2-16 Feb, bereaved families and friends gave evidence about their loved ones' treatment in Essex mental health wards to the Lampard Inquiry.
Chair Baroness Kate Lampard CBE said the next public evidence sessions will now take place from 6-23 July.
gcnchambers.co.uk/lampard-inqu...
(2/3) 'The claimants in the Three Rivers case were represented by Emma Pein at @bindmans.com, who instructed barrister @tomroyston.bsky.social of Garden Court North Chambers.'
(3/3) 'Readers may remember Tom providing legal advice to Benefits and Work at a much discounted rate during the successful fight against the proposed PIP four-point rule.'
'For months, Benefits & Work has been hearing from readers who, contrary to everything they were promised by the DWP, have found themselves much worse off after migrating to Universal Credit because their council tax bill has shot up.'
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/uc-migr...
Garden Court North's @tomroyston.bsky.social represented the Claimants, instructed by Emma Pein at @bindmans.com, leading Jack Castle of @hendersonchambers.bsky.social. Tom has acted in a number of previous successful challenges to council tax reduction schemes, against Croydon & Trafford Councils.
In a judicial review claim brought against Three Rivers District Council by two of its residents, the High Court on Monday declared that the local authority’s scheme for calculating low income residents’ council tax liability unlawfully discriminated against them.
gcnchambers.co.uk/three-rivers...
@mirahammad.bsky.social was instructed by Peter Baker and Simon Natas of ITN solicitors on behalf of Leona Kamio. Read more about the Filton case above.
The jury acquitted all Palestine Action protesters charged with aggravated burglary. This verdict comes amidst a government proposal to restrict jury trials, which Garden Court North's crime and protest team unequivocally oppose.
gcnchambers.co.uk/palestine-ac...
Ms Kamio and her 5 co-defendants were acquitted of aggravated burglary for their protest at the Israeli-linked factory in 2024.
They were also charged with criminal damage and violent disorder, but the jury reached partial or no verdicts on those counts.
Garden Court North's @mirahammad.bsky.social successfully represented Leona Kamio during the trial, instructed by Simon Natas of Irvine Thanvi Natas Solicitors.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Javaid spent six years as the UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran. He is part of Garden Court North's international law team.
"Thousands of people have been brutally murdered. We don't know the numbers - it could be tens of thousands, or it could be at least 33,000 people killed."
Garden Court North's Javaid Rehman spoke to ABC about the troubling situation in Iran.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Alexa, who is part of Garden Court North's prison team, was instructed by Rob Hill at Broudie Jackson Canter.
Garden Court North's Alexa Thompson represented Mr Lewin in the first-ever public parole review hearing held in front of the Parole Board of England and Wales for a prisoner convicted of a terrorism offence.
gcnchambers.co.uk/parole-board...
Mr Mitchell’s challenge follows a recent High Court decision in another council tax reduction case, in which the court ruled Trafford Council’s tax reduction scheme was unlawful.
Tom and Alexa were instructed by Carolin Ott and Aurelia Buelens from @leigh-day.bsky.social.
Garden Court North's @tomroyston.bsky.social and @alexathompson.bsky.social represented Mr Mitchell in the High Court, where he was given permission to proceed with his judicial review challenging the lawfulness of Somerset Council’s tax reduction scheme.
gcnchambers.co.uk/high-court-g...
Garden Court North’s Nina Grahame KC, who will join fellow barristers at a Parliamentary Lobby Day at Westminster on 3 February, said the proposed system is “untried, untested and the claimed level of reductions is wholly undermined by even the briefest statistical analysis”.
Garden Court North’s crime team unequivocally opposes the Government’s proposal to restrict the right to a jury trial, a proposal to irrevocably damage a fair, tried and tested system providing justice to all members of society.
Read our full statement below.
gcnchambers.co.uk/garden-court...
Thank you also to the team at @inquest-org.bsky.social for joining us and contributing & to Pete Weatherby KC (@gcnchambers.bsky.social) for jumping in to give a whistle-stop tour of the latest developments of the ground-breaking #HillsboroughLaw.
#LAGEvents #LAGTraining
ITV News: www.itv.com/news/granada...
Nina and Rebecca frequently represent vulnerable female defendants charged with murder whose cases have resolved by a plea to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility through mental illness.
