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Albion Chambers is located in Bristol, United Kingdom on Broad St. Albion Chambers is rated 4.9 out of 5 in the category barristerlegal services in United Kingdom. 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Chambers is led by Adam Vaitilingam QC and has 74 barristers including three Queen’s Counsel. There are two door tenants, both of whom are Queen’s Counsel. Expertise Experience Reassurance They’ve Got a Ticket to Ride… but do they care? Employment Status in the Supreme Court - Read more Police Disciplinary Proceedings – 2020, A Time of Real Change? - Read more Inquiry into the Coroner Service - Read more Combined claims of unfair dismissal and discrimination arising from disability - Read more Re T (A Child: Refusal of Adoption Order) 2020 EWCA Civ 797 - Read more Fraudulent Furloughs, Dobbing-In Dismissals: A Guide to Interim Relief in the Employment Tribunals - Read more Modifying Mostyn’s Methodology – Improving the drafting of Criminal Restraining Orders - Read more Employment Status: Varnish, Velodromes and Vento, the Second Lap or perhaps a Change of Gear? - Read more Employment Team E-Bulletin: July 2020 When is enough, enough (and how to establish this)? ….a tale of guitars, shoes and extended civil restraint orders Read more Child Law E-Bulletin July 2020 Re LC (A Child - Placement Order) [2020] EWCA Civ 787 Read more Fraudulent Furloughs, Dobbing-In Dismissals: A Guide to Interim Relief in the Employment Tribunals - Read more Modifying Mostyn’s Methodology – Improving the drafting of Criminal Restraining Orders - Read more Employment Status: Varnish, Velodromes and Vento, the Second Lap or perhaps a Change of Gear? - Read more Employment Team E-Bulletin: July 2020 When is enough, enough (and how to establish this)? ….a tale of guitars, shoes and extended civil restraint orders Read more Child Law E-Bulletin July 2020 Re LC (A Child - Placement Order) [2020] EWCA Civ 787 Read more Urgent Update on Furlough Scheme and Holidays - Read more Disclosure of Digital Records: The Key to the Sweet Cupboard is No Longer Left in the Keyhole - Read more Operation Glendora: Convictions secured in human trafficking case - Read more Getting Tribunals Moving - Read more Inquest Team E-Bulletin June 2020 Article 2 Inquests in Medical Cases Read more They’ve Got a Ticket to Ride… but do they care? Employment Status in the Supreme Court Submitted by Jessica Armfelt on Wed, 07/29/2020 - 11:03 The return of recreational cricket has been an interesting experience for me and many others. It allowed me to go back to giving people the finger in public (as an umpire). Accompanying cricket’s return is complex and exacting guidance for sanitisation breaks, social distancing in the field and regular ball sanitisation. As with all lawyers, the chance to use difficult rules to try and ruin everyone’s day is, of course, one I relish(!)   Read more about They’ve Got a Ticket to Ride… but do they care? Employment Status in the Supreme Court Police Disciplinary Proceedings – 2020, A Time of Real Change? Submitted by Jessica Armfelt on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 09:12 On 1 February 2020 a new raft of Police Misconduct Measures came into being. They are extensive and have created a multitude of changes to the regime. The complexion of the misconduct regime has changed dramatically. There is a greater emphasis on stricter time limits and the chair taking much more of a ‘case management’ role pre hearing.   This article can do no more than highlight just some of the main alterations, to act as a sign-post, as it were.   To assist the reader, at the foot of this e-bulletin, a list of Regulations and Guidance is provided.   Read more about Police Disciplinary Proceedings – 2020, A Time of Real Change? Inquiry into the Coroner Service Submitted by Jessica Armfelt on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 11:06 Reforms to the Coroner Service were introduced by the Coroners & Justice Act 2009. In 2015 the Ministry of Justice reviewed the Act’s effectiveness. That review has never been published. And so, at the start of July 2020, the Justice Select Committee announced an inquiry into the Coroner Service. The Chair of the Committee, Sir Bob Neill MP said the following:   Read more about Inquiry into the Coroner Service Combined claims of unfair dismissal and discrimination arising from disability Submitted by Jessica Armfelt on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 09:01 In the case of O’Brien v Bolton St Catherine’s Academy [2017] EWCA Civ 145, the Court of Appeal (Underhill LJ) upheld an Employment Tribunal’s Judgment that a dismissal found to be disproportionate and therefore unlawful under s15 EqA was necessarily unreasonable under s98(4) ERA. Underhill LJ went on to observe that it would be undesirable for the two tests to require the application of two different standards. Is the opposite true? Read more about Combined claims of unfair dismissal and discrimination arising from disability Re T (A Child: Refusal of Adoption Order) 2020 EWCA Civ 797 Submitted by Jessica Armfelt on Mon, 07/20/2020 - 16:22 This is a very unusual case where the maternal grandmother sought an adoption order to replace a special guardianship order made in 2017, in respect of her young grandson. Read more about Re T (A Child: Refusal of Adoption Order) 2020 EWCA Civ 797 Fraudulent Furloughs, Dobbing-In Dismissals: A Guide to Interim Relief in the Employment Tribunals Submitted by Jessica Armfelt on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 14:43 Reading ListTaplin v C Shippam Limited [1978] IRLR 450 (EAT)Parkins v Sodexho Ltd [2002] IRLR 109London City Airport Ltd v Chacko [2013] IRLR 610 (EAT)Raja v Secretary of State for Justice [2010] UKEAT/0364/09/1502  The Issue We are beyond the honeymoon stage. Just a couple of months ago the furlough scheme and all it offered seemed, if not the cure, then a soporific balm to our current economic and workforce woes.   Read more about Fraudulent Furloughs, Dobbing-In Dismissals: A Guide to Interim Relief in the Employment Tribunals Modifying Mostyn’s Methodology – Improving the drafting of Criminal Restraining Orders Submitted by Jessica Armfelt on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 10:47 Pupils at Albion Chambers are, almost uniquely, still required to undertake a mixed common law practice. Years ago this would have been commonplace at the Bar, but more recently the norm has been for pupils to specialise in a given area of law from the outset. I trained in both Family and Criminal law (amongst other areas!), before refining my practice in recent years. In doing so, I bucked a trend for junior tenants to give up crime in favour of family and did the opposite. Read more about Modifying Mostyn’s Methodology – Improving the drafting of Criminal Restraining Orders Employment Status: Varnish, Velodromes and Vento, the Second Lap or perhaps a Change of Gear? Submitted by Jessica Armfelt on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 12:40 For those of you that read it, you may recall my previous e-bulletin of the same name addressing the case of Ms J Varnish v British Cycling Federation t/a British Cycling & United Kingdom Sports Council t/a UK Sport Case No. 2404219/2017. In that e-bulletin I mentioned that it was unclear whether the decision would be appealed and concluded with ‘Where will this lead us? Well, that’s a topic for a future e-bulletin’…   Read more about Employment Status: Varnish, Velodromes and Vento, the Second Lap or perhaps a Change of Gear? Employment Team E-Bulletin: July 2020 Submitted by Jessica Armfelt on Tue, 07/07/2020 - 14:21 When is enough, enough (and how to establish this)? .... a tale of guitars, shoes and extended civil restraint orders So, the thing with lockdown. It’s taken its toll, I’m sure you would agree. Personally, I’ve eaten too much and am shamefully having to moderate what I say to my GP when asked “how many units per week do you drink” (if units were gallons, I’d be fine).   Read more about Employment Team E-Bulletin: July 2020 Child Law E-Bulletin July 2020 Submitted by Jessica Armfelt on Wed, 07/01/2020 - 16:09 Re LC (A Child - Placement Order) [2020] EWCA Civ 787 This is an interesting little case where the Court of Appeal dismissed the Local Authority’s appeal against the Judge’s dismissal of their application for a placement order in respect of the youngest of three siblings, the care plan for the older two being long-term foster care. This is a situation which will be familiar to most of us practising in this field. Read more about Child Law E-Bulletin July 2020 Pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last » Albion Chambers Broad Street Bristol BS1 1DR and 29 Park Street Taunton TA1 4DG T 0117 927 2144 F 0117 926 2569E clerks@albionchambers.co.uk   Barristers regulated by the Bar Standards Board Footer logos     Links Search form Search