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 …
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 …
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 …
I recently received a question about driving without headlights. Effectively, a young driver had got in a car, and driven quite innocently, but driven home and forgot to put his headlights on. He told me, quite candidly, that the reason …
How does ShenSmith Barristers work with Litigation Funding? One of the aims of the ShenSmith Barrister model is also to ensure that clients have the benefits of, not only litigation and barrister skills , but also to provide litigation funding …
Transcription: It’s an offence under section 4(1) of the Road Traffic Action 1988 (“RTA 1998”) for a person to drive, or attempt to drive mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or other public place, while unfit to drive through …
Zero hours contracts – what has changed? In relation to zero hours contracts, there will no longer be exclusivity clauses. Now, there is whole discussion and debate in relation to zero hours contracts; that is another discussion for another …
What is shared parental leave? I’ve been asking a lot of questions about shared parental leave, and that’s a right is coming as of 5th April 2015. So a lot of employers and employees said “ What is this …
Introducing Stuart W Stevens: A tenacious, forward-looking barrister with an extraordinary ability to win cases and represent you in a modern, realistic fashion. Watch his intro, and contact us if you require his services. I am stuart. I’ve been …
Hi, I’m Jonathan Maskew, one of the directors and co-founder of ShenSmith Barristers. 2016, what is it hold for Direct Access to barristers? Well, we think there is a huge opportunity for clients in business, for clients who run …