Two advocates from No5 Barristers’ Chambers secured the murder conviction of a teenager for the stabbing of a student outside a Birmingham College. Michael Burrows QC and Tom Schofield prosecuted in the trial of 17-year-old Louai Ali, who stabbed Sidali Mohamed, 16, in the chest with a two-pronged knife. The attack happened during a struggle at the gates […]
Christopher Young QC advised and presented the case for the Rushmoor and St Andrews Schools in Bedford who have decided to combine, expand and relocate to a new site on the edge of the town. The proposal also includes a new rugby academy and tennis academy together with indoor courts. The main issue surrounded the traffic […]
Richard Gibbs secures acquittal of a dentist wrongly accused of false accounting after a five day trial before a jury at Birmingham Crown Court. Instructed on a private basis by Richard Nelson LLP to defend Dr Khaled, Richard Gibbs argued successfully that the dentist had not acted dishonestly and that the dentist had acted as a […]
A man has been jailed for the fatal stabbing of a father-of-two in a trial prosecuted by two counsel from No5 Barristers’ Chambers. Mark Heywood QC and Tim Harrington led the prosecution in the trial of illegal immigrant Warsame Ahmed Mohamed, 24, of no fixed abode. The Somali national was jailed over the fatal stabbing of […]
Jason Perrin has been involved in a presumption of death hearing after a Coventry man disappeared during a hiking holiday in Austria in 2012. Mr John Phillimore, a computer field engineer, booked an outward pursuit holiday with TUI UK, flying to Innsbruck Airport on September 15, 2012, to stay in Mayrhofen, Austria. However, he did […]
The Queen has appointed No5’s Vinesh Mandalia to be a Judge of the Upper Tribunal on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, The Right Honourable David Gauke MP and the Senior President of Tribunals, the Right Honourable Sir Ernest Ryder. The Senior President of Tribunals has assigned him to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. Vinesh, […]
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Costs lawyer specialist Stephen Goodfellow of No5 Barristers’ Chambers puts the spotlight on the liability of a litigation friend and infants following Barker v Confiànce Ltd and others [2019] EWHC 1401 (Ch). Mr Goodfellow examined the High Court judgment on June 5, 2019 where Mr Justice Morgan considered the principle as to the circumstances where a […]
Barrister Bernard Thorogood led the prosecution as a company was fined £1.33 million after a woman was killed by debris blown off a building roof by Storm Doris in 2017. Tahnie Martin, 29, from Stafford, was hit by a wooden panel outside the Mander Shopping Centre in Wolverhampton. Ms Martin, who worked at the University […]
No5 Barristers’ Chambers is pleased to announce the strengthening of its list of Specialist Regulatory Advocates undertaking regulatory prosecutions in fields that include Health and Safety (HSE), Natural Resource Wales (NRW), The Environment Agency (EA), The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). Bernard Thorogood, Ian Bridge and Adam Farrer who have been long standing […]
By Andrew Wallace No5 barrister Andrew Wallace appeared for the defence in a trial which saw a man acquitted of murder after shooting his friend with a gun which he did not know was loaded. A jury cleared Jordan Bassett, 25, of murder following a trial at Warwick Crown Court. He had already pleaded guilty […]
Two advocates from No5 Barristers’ Chambers are leading the prosecution in a murder trial over the stabbing of a student outside his Highgate college. Michael Burrows QC and Tom Schofield are prosecuting in the trial of a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, at Birmingham Crown Court. Sixteen-year-old Sidali Mohamed was allegedly stabbed […]
