🚨 Hillsborough Law: Historic move to stop state coverups and bring justice to families The first reading of the #Hillsborough Bill – formally known as the Public Office (Accountability) Bill – took place in Parliament, marking an historic step. Read here 🔗 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/hillsborough...

"Equality Act is meant to be a shield rather than a sword"– Oscar Davies quoted in PinkNews 🗞️ Garden Ct barrister Oscar Davies has stated the Supreme Ct ruling on single-sex spaces is 'being misinterpreted in a way that excludes trans people'. Full coverage 🔗 www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/16/n...

Garden Ct's Liz Davies KC @lizdsocialist.bsky.social to speak at Housing Law Practitioners Association (HLPA) Meeting on Renters Rights 🏘️⚖️ 📅 17 September 2025, 6.30PM 📍 University of Bristol Law School Find out more about our #1 ranked #HousingLaw team 🔗 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/areas-of-law...

Garden Court Chambers mourns the loss of Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon). Conor was a shining light in civil liberties and human rights for decades through his work as a lawyer, as an educator, and as a thinker. Read on ▶️ gardencourtchambers.co.uk/garden-court...

Congratulations to Keir Monteith KC, a @uomsalc.bsky.social Simon Industrial and Professional fellow, on his recent promotion to Honorary Professor of Law. Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk... @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social @uomlaw.bsky.social @eithnequinn.bsky.social

Garden Court's Adrian Berry KC writes in new Cosmopolis blog: 'The ECHR & UK international relations'💡📝 "To contend that #ECHR withdrawal is a simple act without consequential effect is simply to blind oneself to international political reality..." Read here 🔽 tinyurl.com/4h4zh9jm #HumanRights

EHRC credibility – Oscar Davies in PinkNews ⚖️🗞️ Garden Ct's Oscar Davies (@nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social) quoted in PinkNews on recent concerns raised by Lemkin Institute over UK's Equality & Human Rights Commission accreditation at UN level. Coverage here 🔽 www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/09/e...

Birmingham City Council abandons appeal against High Ct order to reassess home-to-school transport package Ollie Persey & Alex Temple of Garden Ct's #EducationLaw Team acted for the respondent, instructed by Rachael Smurthwaite of Irwin Mitchell. Read on 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/birmingham-c...

🎓💫 Keir Monteith KC appointed Honorary Professor of Law at University of Manchester 🎓💫 Keir is promoted to Honorary Professor of Law (previously Honorary Senior Lecturer) at the University's School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social. Read more here 📖 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/keir-monteit...

⚖️ Why do jury trials matter more than ever and how do Leveson reforms fall short? 📖 @keirmonteith.bsky.social KC of Garden Court Chambers Crime Team writes for the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies 👇 www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/stop-injusti... ➡️Jury trials ➡️Racial bias ➡️Joint enterprise

Trans-led advocacy group to intervene in NHS Fife changing room tribunal Oscar Davies (@nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social) of Garden Court is instructed to represent the intervener, TransLucent. Counsel instructed by @leigh-day.bsky.social. 📖 Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/trans-led-ad...

🌟🎓 ‘Change Maker’ Oscar Davies shown alongside fellow KCL distinguished alumni🎓🌟 Since being honoured with King’s Distinguished Alumni ‘Change Maker’ Award, Oscar Davies’ image features at the main entrance of @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. 📖 Read more: gardencourtchambers.co.uk/oscar-davies...

💡 Tim Baldwin produces LexisNexis case analysis: Rent repayment orders and ‘person managing’💡 Tim Baldwin (@timbgclaw.bsky.social) of the Garden Ct #HousingLaw Team has produced an analysis with LexisNexis on Global 100 Ltd v Ross & Ors [2025]. Read more 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/tim-baldwin-...

✨ Breaking barriers in criminal justice & widening access to the Bar ✨ We are proud to announce we have been shortlisted at Chambers UK Bar Awards 2025: 🌟 Keir Monteith KC – DEI: Outstanding Contribution 🌟 Garden Ct – DEI: Outstanding Set Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/keir-monteit...

💫📣 Allison Munroe KC, Amanda Meusz & Stephen Lue shortlisted at Family Law Awards 2025 📣💫 🌟 Allison Munroe KC – Family Law KC of the Year 🌟 Amanda Meusz – Family Law Champion of the Year 🌟 Stephen Lue – Family Law Junior of the Year Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/allison-munr...

Council provides suitable housing to profoundly disabled man following urgent judicial review challenging Care Act breach @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/67991

💡📝 Garden Ct's Adrian Berry KC (@berryadrianc.bsky.social) writes in a new blog: 'Immigration Civil Penalty Employment Scheme to be extended to Sub-contractors, Agency Workers & Gig Economy (Border Security, Immigration & Asylum Bill 2025)'. Read on here 🔽 cosmopolismigration.com/2025/08/27/i...

🚨 Local authority provides suitable housing to profoundly disabled man following urgent judicial review challenging breach under Care Act 2014 Garden Court's Isaac Ricca-Richardson acted for the claimant, instructed by Emma Pein of @bindmans.com. Read on 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/local-author...

Legal Action Spotlight Nick Bano of @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social on what social justice lawyers need to know following RHZ v Sutton. 'It is useful and invigorating that there is now a clear route for including discrimination points in homelessness challenges.' ➡️ Read here swiy.co/h6eS

Defendant acquitted of possession with intent to supply cannabis Twanieka Alcindor of the Garden Court Crime Team acted for the defendant, instructed by Rukhsana Hayat of Rukhsana Hayat & Co Solicitors. Read on here 🔽 tinyurl.com/ate77hvu

Legal challenge submitted to ECtHR on behalf of UK’s first trans judge Garden Ct's Amanda Weston KC & Oscar Davies (@nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social) are instructed by Trans Legal Clinic, alongside Jenn Lawrence of @moncktonchambers.bsky.social. Read on 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/legal-challe...

This month's Legal Action cover story: Garden Court at 50 After 50 years of 'doing right, fearing no one', what next for @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social? @fionabawdon.bsky.social investigates. ➡️ swiy.co/h50O

🎓📣 Garden Court congratulates Access to the Bar for All scholarship recipients 📣 🎓 Garden Court is delighted to congratulate Abdeldjalile, Indiana, & Shilon, who all received offers from their first choice of university to study law. 👏👏👏 Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/garden-court...

Oscar Davies secures £56,000 settlement in discrimination claim for queer employee of drinks retailer Oscar @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social was instructed on a public access basis & is a member of Garden Ct's Employment & Discrimination Law Team. Read on 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/oscar-davies...

📣 Plans for giant intensive poultry unit in Norfolk overturned Acland Bryant of Garden Ct acted for Coalition Against Factory Farming with Alex Shattock of @landmarkch.bsky.social instructed by Ricardo Gama & Lucia Saborio Perez at Leigh Day. Read on 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/plans-for-gi...

🚨 High Court finds police detained claimant unlawfully after failure to effectively review detention Sarah Hemingway of the Garden Court Chambers #CivilLiberties Team acted for the claimants, instructed by Gregsons Solicitors. Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/high-court-f...

📣 High Ct finds local authority must provide suitable temporary accommodation to evicted family after breach of duty Article written by Renata Burns of Shelter Legal Services, who instructed Tim Baldwin (@timbgclaw.bsky.social) for the claimant. Read here🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/high-court-f...

“My grandparents fled Hitler, today in London someone screamed ‘filth’ in my face” – Garden Court barrister & author David Renton writes in the Daily Mirror about a counter-demonstration he went on to support refugees and defend them from protest. Read on here: 🔽 tinyurl.com/9s7m7hzf

📣 Tim Baldwin @timbgclaw.bsky.social co-authors article for Legal Action Group @legalactiongroup.bsky.social on expanding housing #LegalAid, with Dianne Cowie of Duncan Lewis Solicitors Ltd @duncanlewiss.bsky.social and Laura Coyle of Turpin Miller LLP Read on here 🔽 tinyurl.com/3yp86rk4

📢 Palestine Action won permission to challenge it's proscription as a terrorist organisation. Garden Court barristers Audrey Cherryl Mogan & Owen Greenhall are junior counsel. Why did the Court grant permission? 👇 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/palestine-ac... #article10 #article11 #Gaza #Protest

🚨 Raza Halim appeared on Sky News to highlight the call for 'action' to evacuate up to 30 Gazan children in need of urgent medical treatment. Garden Court barrister Raza Halim is a founding member of Project Pure Hope, and acts as a legal advisor. Watch the interview 🔽 youtu.be/IfEsX_5TK2g?...

🌟Garden Court barrister Oscar Davies: "You belong here - you don't have to change who you are to deserve your place in the legal industry." Read Oscar's (@nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social) interview featured in the latest issue of Modern Law Magazine 🔽 modernlawmagazine.com/the-magazine/

⚖️📣 Celebrating 50 years of Doing Right, Fearing No One - Digital Publication Available to Read! 📣⚖️ This unique publication profiles 50 important cases of the last half century & aims to inspire defenders of equal rights & justice for all. Read it here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Azroy Dawes-Clarke Inquest: Jury finds unnecessary and disproportionate restraint caused death at HMP Elmley Read on 🔽 lnkd.in/eMJTs-TV

🚨 UK approves Project Pure Hope medical evacuation of children from Gaza The Government has approved medical evacuation of 30 children. Garden Ct barrister Raza Halim is a founding member of Project Pure Hope (PPH) & acts as a legal advisor. Watch the Sky News interview 🔽 youtu.be/xIneOtRnMgA?...

📣Tim Baldwin @timbgclaw.bsky.social of the Garden Court Chambers #HousingLaw Team has co-written an article for Legal Action Group @legalactiongroup.bsky.social, with Access Social Care, exploring the decline in #CommunityCare legal aid lawyers. Read on here 🔽 tinyurl.com/2s328j6t

💡 'Never Mind the Bankers' - Henry Blaxland KC of the Garden Court Chambers #FinancialCrime Team discusses the Supreme Court appeals which quashed the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo. Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/never-mind-t...

📣 Joint Head of Chambers Grace Brown elected as bencher of Inner Temple 📣 We are delighted to share that Grace Brown, Joint Head of Garden Court Chambers, has been elected as a Barrister Bencher of @innertemple.org.uk. 💫🌟 Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/joint-head-o... #DoRightFearNoOne

🚨 Court of Appeal rules on approach of Tribunals relating to lack of capacity or other compromising disadvantage suffered by litigant DP was represented by Desmond Rutledge of Garden Ct, led by Jamie Burton KC of @doughtystreet.bsky.social. Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/court-of-app...

💡 Tim Baldwin produces LexisNexis case analysis on Upper Tribunal decision to set aside rent repayment order Tim Baldwin (@timbgclaw.bsky.social) of Garden Ct writes on Mitterhuber v Hernandez & Anor [2025] for @lexisnexisuk.bsky.social. ⚖️ Find out more 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/tim-baldwin-...

📣Sarah Hemingway appears in YJLC ‘Safeguarding First: Children and the Criminal Legal System’ Youth Justice Legal Centre have released a training video to explain how to use safeguarding and welfare law to better defend children in the criminal legal system. Read on: 🔽 tinyurl.com/y4k8ybfj

📢Ollie Persey @olliepersey.bsky.social at the Westminster Education Forum Policy Conference: Next steps for #SEND provision in England Ollie joined the panel, 'Improving accountability and oversight within the SEND system,' discussing reform, #inclusivity & more. 🔽More info: tinyurl.com/5epvsdy7

💫Our Oscar Davies @nonbinarybarrister.bsky.social speaks on embracing identity at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social championing the rights of minority groups & more. As the UK’s first publicly recognised non-binary barrister, Oscar is paving the way for LGBTQ+ rights in the UK. tinyurl.com/hbr997sp

📣 Lily Lewis joins Garden Court as new tenant 📣 We are delighted to announce that Lily Lewis has joined Garden Ct. Lily specialises in Inquests & inquiries, human rights, equality & discrimination law, JR & action against public authorities. Read on 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/lily-lewis-j...

📢EVENT- Intermediaries for Justice Conference 📆Friday 26 September ⚖️ Garden Court barrister Audrey Cherryl Mogan will deliver a presentation: 'Vulnerable defendants: Key principles and early applications for intermediaries in the criminal courts.' 🔽 Register and more info: tinyurl.com/mpe2sst6

Garden Ct barristers advise on potential breaches of international law arising from gas pipeline crossing Palestinian waters Legal advice from barristers Zehrah Hasan & Fatima Jichi has informed a seminal new report from @globalwitness.org. Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/garden-court...

⚖️ Elena Papamichael successful in half time submission on human trafficking counts alleged against her young adult client. 🔽 Read on: tinyurl.com/2krvehrx

📢EVENT- Civil Rights & National Security: Examining the UK's Proscription Powers 📆 Weds 16 July, 6.30-8PM 📍 Portcullis House, 1 Victoria Embankment, SW1A 2JR Audrey Cherryl Mogan will speak on the panel, hosted by @soasicop.bsky.social. 🔽 Register: tinyurl.com/ybnsvwdr

📣WE ARE RECRUITING 📣 Garden Court Chambers is seeking to recruit a Team Assistant to the our Public Law & Social Welfare and Immigration Teams. Deadline to apply is 4PM, 28 July 2025 🔽Apply here: tinyurl.com/mvhwuxf8

Courtenay, Lightly Upon the Wing – A Tribute to Courtenay Griffiths KC by Sean Horstead Courtenay Griffiths KC sadly passed earlier this month. All of us at Garden Court offer our deepest condolences to his family, and are honoured to share a poem by Sean. Read here: tinyurl.com/5xeyspnw