Six of our barristers are named in the 2025 Pro Bono Recognition list of England and Wales, published today. John McLinden KC, Keith Chipato, Max Lansman, Ryan Anderson, Rebecca Davies, and Harrison Engler appear on the list.
John McLinden KC and John Critchley, assisted by first-six pupil Andrew Burrell, successfully persuaded the High Court to withdraw the intervention against their client and his firm in Santers Solicitors Limited & Anr v Law Society & The SRA [2024]. The judgment is a rare example of a solicitor overturning an intervention in their practice by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
We are proud to share that 5 of our barristers are named on the 2024 Pro Bono Recognition list published today. John McLinden KC, Francis Hoar, Rebecca Handcock, Eleanor Sibley and Max Lansman appear on the inaugural Pro Bono Recognition List.
At the inquest into the death of IT consultant Barry Pring in the Ukraine, his widow, represented by John McLinden QC, John Critchley and Ryan Anderson, was exonerated of his murder by the coroner.
On Monday 18 November 2019, the High Court dismissed proceedings in which the Pring family alleged Julianna Moore had orchestrated the murder of her husband Barry John Pring in Kiev, Ukraine, on 16/17 February 2008. John McLinden QC & John Critchley represented Ms Moore throughout.
John McLinden QC and Nikolas Clarke represented the local authority in an inquest concerning the death of a cyclist, Ben Wales, who fell off his bicycle and was then run over by a lorry.
John McLinden QC led Toby Bishop in successfully opposing the continuation and restoration of an interim injunction that had been obtained without notice. BEL complained that in the course of a substantial renovation of its premises, NWHUKL, a hotelier was unlawfully preventing it from using its easement through NWHUKL’s property to access its customer toilets . […]