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Five Paper is delighted to welcome Amardeep Dhillon to Chambers

5th July 2024

Five Paper is delighted to welcome Amardeep Dhillon to Chambers. Amardeep was called to the bar in 2010 and has a strong commercial chancery practice, with a particular focus on banking and finance, trust disputes and insolvency and company law. A main focus of his practice being shareholder and partnership disputes, especially those within the…

Ben Maltz successfully secures modification of restrictive covenant for Clarion Housing

3rd July 2024

Ben Maltz has obtained an order from the Upper Tribunal modifying a restrictive covenant in respect of Clarion’s proposed redevelopment of a site at the village of Wrotham in Kent, thereby unlocking the land from restricted use as a retirement housing scheme, which had become increasingly unviable as a result of limited facilities and public…

Nick Grundy KC successfully resists challenge to LB Haringey’s decision that a refugee did not have a priority need for accommodation

1st July 2024

LBH had found that ZR did not have a priority need for housing. He challenged that decision by a claim in the High Court, See: R (oao ZR) v (1) LB Haringey and (2) SoS Home Department [2024] EWHC 1476 (Admin). ZR, a Sudanese national, arrived in the UUK in February 2022 and applied for…

Shane Crawford’s success in the Employment Tribunal

27th June 2024

3304863/2023 – Mrs L Gallagher v Essity UK Limited Shane Crawford successfully applied to strike out all discrimination claims on behalf of the respondent. EJ Daniel on hearing the claimant’s evidence under cross-examination and submissions, decided that the claimant had acted scandalously and vexatiously and that a fair hearing was no longer possible. Applications to…

Sam Phillips and Taylor Blair successful in High Court appeal clarifying the test for interpretation of sequential orders

27th June 2024

Sam Phillips, leading Taylor Blair, successfully resisted the appeal of an order of HHJ Luba KC on a point of judicial interpretation. Soole, J, who had granted permission to appeal, was asked to consider the extent to which a Circuit Judge was able to interpret the meaning of his own order some months after the…

Five Paper is delighted to be supporting the 10,000 Black Interns scheme for another year

13th June 2024

We are looking forward to hosting further interns this summer, who will be able to gain an insight into Chambers, and our specialist areas of law, which will provide them with the experience and confidence to kick start their legal careers! Please see below if you would like more information about the scheme. 10000internsfoundation.com

Joe McBrien has edited the Green Book 2024 on the subject of Consumer Contracts

5th June 2024

Joe McBrien has edited the Civil Court Practice 2024 on the topic of Consumer Contracts (the Green Book). The chapter addresses all relevant consumer statutes including the Consumer Credit Act 1974, Sale of Goods Act 1979, the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 and the Consumer Rights Act 2015. This publication follows Joe being…

Michael Mullin succeeds on Costs Appeal in the High Court – Francois v The London Borough of Waltham Forest [2024] EWHC 1162 (KB)

16th May 2024

Francois v The London Borough of Waltham Forest [2024] EWHC 1162 (KB) CPR 46.5 limits the recovery of costs by litigant in person against another party by setting out various gateways through which costs can be recovered. CPR 46.5(3)(b) permits the recovery of “payments reasonably made by the litigant in person for legal services relating…

Five Paper Property Division Summer Lecture Programme 2024

30th April 2024

We are pleased to invite you to our Property Division Summer Lecture Programme 2024. All lectures at 5 pm for 1 hour by zoom – final event in person only! To register your attendance, please click the links in the programme. Each webinar has its own link. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email…

Michael Mullin & Scarlet Taylor-Waller successful in the Court of Appeal

24th April 2024

Judgment was handed down by the Court of Appeal today in Ghaoui v The London Borough of Waltham Forest which concerned the interplay between human rights legislation and the assessment of suitability under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996. Michael and Scarlet were instructed by the respondent local authority. They successfully argued that the…

Five Paper Finance, Insolvency and Company Law Webinar Programme 2024

16th April 2024

We are pleased to invite you to join us in our series of lunchtime webinars which will take place between 1 May and 17 September 2024. To register your attendance, please click the links in the programme. Each webinar has it’s own link. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to…

Five Paper’s pupils Taylor Blair and Freyja McLoughlin are now accepting instructions

4th April 2024

Our pupils, Taylor Blair and Freyja McLoughlin, are now accepting instructions in all of Five Paper’s specialist areas of law. For more information, or to instruct Taylor or Freyja, please contact the clerking team.

Five Paper is delighted to be hosting an event alongside SHLA – ASB: Investigation, Injunctions and Committals

2nd April 2024

We are looking forward to hosting this event alongside SHLA. Five Paper’s Jennifer Moate, Sam Phillips and Tristan Salter will be speaking on ‘ASB: Investigation, Injunctions and Committals’. For more information, or to book your place, please use the following link: ASB: Investigation, Injunctions And Committals – SHLA

Chancery Bar Association Conference, Geneva 2024

19th March 2024

On 18 April 2024, Roger Laville will be speaking at the Chancery Bar Association Geneva Conference, which is taking place at the Novotel Geneva Centre, on the subject of enforcing Swiss judgments in England and Wales outside the Lugano Convention. He will be part of a panel covering the wider topic of cross-border jurisdiction and…

[Case comment] THG v Zedra Trust [2024] EWCA Civ 158 – limitation periods for unfair prejudice petitions

19th March 2024

On 23 February 2024, the Court of Appeal held in THG PLC v Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 158 that unfair prejudice petitions brought under section 994 of the Companies Act 2006 are subject to the limitation periods under the Limitation Act 1980. In doing so, it departed from the “received wisdom”…

Spring Housing Conference 2024

11th March 2024

Date: Friday, 24th May 2024 Time: 09:00 AM – 4:30 PM Location: Ashworth Centre, The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2A 3TL Fee: £99.00 + VAT CPD points: 5 CPD Hr(s) Five Paper’s team of Social Housing barristers presents a one-day conference for housing lawyers working with local authorities, RPs and in private practice. Topics…

David Mold appears in out of time Appeal in the Employment Appeal Tribunal

4th March 2024

David Mold appeared in the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Shah v Home Office (PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE, JURISDICTIONAL: TIME POINTS) [2024] EAT 21. The Appellant had filed his appeal from the Employment Tribunal out of time. The EAT determined that it was one of the unusual cases where it was appropriate to grant an extension of…

Sam Phillips successful in unusual Upper Tribunal appeal of FTT’s reasons

23rd February 2024

Sam Phillips, member of Five Paper’s property division was successful in an appeal to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) on behalf of a landlord who sought to challenge the FTT’s characterisation of an agreement as a statutory, rather than contractual periodic tenancy. The UT agreed to take the unusual step of setting aside the FTT’s…

Five Paper is proud to be sponsoring the SHLA Annual Conference 2024

13th February 2024

Among the speakers will be Five Paper’s own Nicholas Grundy KC who is chairing “Leasehold Reform Panel Discussion – What’s left Of The Government’s Agenda?” and Elizabeth England who is chairing “Disrepair – Disclosure applications and Part 8 Claims” and “Equality Act Defences”. Please click here for the event page on the SHLA website, where…

Success in the Court of Appeal for Nicholas Grundy KC and Daniel Crehan – Rahimi v City of Westminster Council [2024] EWCA 73

5th February 2024

Nicholas Grundy KC and Daniel Crehan were successful in the Court of Appeal on behalf of the Respondent, City of Westminster Council (CWC) in this case. The appeal was from a first appeal decision of Lane J. reported at [2023] EWHC 825 (KB). The issue in the case is what is the test for the…

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