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COVID-19 UPDATE
Red Lion Chambers Update
We are committed to continuing to provide the very highest standards of service whilst minimising risk to clients, staff and barristers. Counsel remain available to accept work as normal.
At all times we operate in a manner consistent with Government and Judicial guidance which we continually monitor.
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We wish you good health and thank you for your continued support.
From all at Red Lion Chambers
Fraud Newsletters
Compiled monthly by Tony Shaw QC Joint Head of Chambers.
A succinct summary of cases & matters over the past four weeks.
Latest News

Baroness Heather Hallett (a member of RLConsulting) appointed to hear inquest in Salisbury poisoning
Baroness Heather Hallett will preside over the inquest into the death of Dawn Sturgess, victim of the Salisbury Novichok poisonings. Dawn Sturgess,44, died in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018. Baroness Heather Hallett has been appointed to hear the inquest after Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Lewis sitting ...
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RLC celebrates Justice Week 2021
Justice Week takes place this week (1st March-5th March) exploring the theme of Rights and Justice: the cost of COVID-19.
Covid 19 has had a seismic effect on all of our lives and this is true within law, access to the justice system and other essential public services. From vulnerable ...
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Covid 19 has had a seismic effect on all of our lives and this is true within law, access to the justice system and other essential public services. From vulnerable ...
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Thames Water fined £2.3m for raw sewage pollution
Thames Water, the UK’s largest water company, has been fined £2.3million for a pollution incident in 2016 that resulted in the death of 1,200 fish and damaged the environment. RLC member Sailesh Mehta was instructed by the Environment Agency. He said: “This fine reflects the growing trend in courts to ...
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Kate Bex QC writes for The Law Society Gazette
Kate Bex QC has written an opinion piece in The Law Society Gazette looking at potential difficulties proving the offence of fraud for UK residents who conceal their return from a country on the government’s red list. Travellers now have to quarantine in an assigned hotel room for 10 days ...
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Oil Sales Representative convicted of Unaoil Bribery Charges
Gillian Jones QC and Faras Baloch (together with Michael Brompton QC) successfully prosecuted Paul Bond a former salesman at a Dutch oil and gas services company of conspiring to bribe public officials in Iraq to win a lucrative contract to build mooring systems in the Persian Gulf as part of ...
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Marcus Rickard investigates Cyber fraud and money laundering involving Decentralised Finance
Cyber fraud and money laundering involving Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is on the rise. Marcus Rickard looks at the risks DeFi creates for AML compliance, the consequences of those risks for AML compliance officers, how the risks can be mitigated, and the potential benefits DeFi brings. He says: "The rate of ...
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RLC Door Tenant Professor Susan Edwards writes for Counsel Magazine
Professor Susan Edwards with co-author Professor Kris Gledhill write for Counsel Magazine in a piece entitled "Strangulation and false narratives of consent". The issues considered in New Zealand’s Kempson v R echo calls for urgent law reform in England and Wales through the Domestic Abuse Bill and a standalone strangulation ...
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Faye Rolfe examines the long-awaited judgement in the case between KBR Inc. and the SFO
The 5 February 2021 saw publication of the judgement in the case between KBR Inc. and the SFO, in which the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the SFO’s compulsory production orders do not have extraterritorial effect. In September 2018 the Divisional court refused US company KBR Inc.’s application for judicial ...
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Simon Spence QC appears on the Get Legally Speaking podcast
Simon Spence QC appears on the Get Legally Speaking podcast for a "Crime Special – The Ipswich Prostitute Murders!" Twelve years ago, five sex workers were taken from the streets of Ipswich and murdered in the space of six weeks.
On January 2008, 49-year-old forklift truck driver, Steve ...
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On January 2008, 49-year-old forklift truck driver, Steve ...
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Helena Spector writes for Bar Council’s Bar Talk
Helena Spector talks about her journey from pupillage to tenancy during a pandemic. "I first started thinking about the Bar at the height of the ‘asylum crisis’ during the summer of 2015, interested in the dynamic between dominant public narratives, political expedience and legal reality." Read piece here: [Bar Council] ...
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Kate Bex QC talks to Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio London
Kate Bex QC talked to Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio London about the government's new rules for travellers returning from 'red list' countries. This follows Health Secretary Matt Hancock's announcement in the Houses of Parliament of a fine of up to £10,000 and maximum sentence of 10 years in ...
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David Young advises upon London Stock Exchange’s historic 1st Listing of a Medicinal Cannabis related Company
RLC member David Young advised Memery Crystal LLP in relation to MGC Pharmaceuticals, who made history on the 9th Feb, 2021 by becoming the first medicinal cannabis related company to be admitted to the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. This was a landmark day for the Medicinal Cannabis ...
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