Field Court Chambers is a leading set of barristers based in London. As well as high quality legal advice and representation, we offer expertise in alternative dispute resolution.
Our barristers work across many areas of law but focus on: business, employment, family, housing, property, public law & Court of Protection.
Jonathan Pennington Legh represented the successful applicant, resisting set aside and permission to appeal in residential property proceedings. The respondent sought to challenge the decision on the grounds that he lacked capacity. The Tribunal refused both the application to set aside and the second respondent’s request for permission to appeal.
Genevieve Screeche-Powell led by Kelvin Rutledge KC acted for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to successfully resist an appeal about the local authority’s use of a database of homeless applicants awaiting transfer to alternative temporary accommodation. The appellant, Ms Begum had claimed that the system of allocating temporary accommodation indirectly discriminated against women.
Is there a difference in how the courts approach piercing the corporate veil in matrimonial proceedings as compared with non-matrimonial proceedings? Case law now establishes that the answer is definitively ‘no’. Jonathan Cowen and Christopher Stirling highlight the points practitioners need to be aware of given the limited power to pierce the corporate veil.
Madeleine Southey summarises a judgment for Family Law Week about an appeal against a finding of rape. The finding, which had been made following a fact-finding hearing in Children Act 1989 proceedings 3 years previously, was overturned by Mr Justice Hayden.