(for Barristers) – Joining ShenSmith Barristers
Hi, we’re looking to add to the ShenSmith fold of Direct Access barristers over the next 6 to 9 months. The strategy so far to date has worked, to the extent that we’re having a flood of enquiries. …
Clerks’ Blogs
ShenSmith meet with the Bar Standards Board about the 2016-2019 Strategic Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUoAk8-7Yfo?rel=0 Following a positive meeting with the Bar Standards Board, we’d like to take the opportunity just to express our thoughts as to what we achieved at that meeting. To our great surprise, we were the only people to respond, …
Recap: Top Tips for a Successful Direct Access Practice – at Bar Council offices
Hi, quick catch up from ShenSmith Barristers, following yesterday’s hugely successful and well-attended event at the Bar Council offices – Top Tips for a successful Direct Access Practice. The event was led by Stephen Harvey QC of 1 Gray’s inn …
Neighbour building without planning permission?
There are some circumstances, where even though the matter of a planning application has been unsuccessful from your neighbour, they carry on building in any event. Well, a barrister can help you make sure that you’ve got the proper experience to document …
Types of Planning Matters
Some of the cases that come through to our planning barristers involve boundary disputes, as to who is responsible; shared drive ways, as who is responsible to those and care & maintenances of them. And the other application that are lodged …
Speed limit?
Ken was driving back to his home to Guildford one evening after working on a building site in Surbiton covering a site manager who had called in sick that day. It was late at night and raining, he did not …
Rogue Landlords
Katie and Stephanie moved into a city centre apartment in summer 2014 on a 12 month contract through a small lettings agency. They paid a deposit of the equivalent of one-and-a-half month’s rent (£1350) to the landlord to be placed …
Know your Consumer Rights: Beat the Christmas Blues
As we approach the last few days of November the festive season dawns upon us; Christmas lights and decorations are making an appearance in homes and around cities across the nation, we have seen our first snowfall of the year …