Daria Gleyze has been awarded “Pro Bono Employed Barrister of the Year 2018”.

Daria’s clients have praised her “above-and-beyond service”, her work helping them understand the process and providing personal support whenever possible.

“She was a vital instrument by assisting in protecting the rights of a tenant, which I am certain left an imprint on the opposite party. Ms Gleyze is an excellent representative of the Law” Pro bono client in a landlord and tenant matter.

There were nine categories up for nomination and a star-studded judging panel, which included the Lord Chief Justice, Chair of the Bar and the elusive Secret Barrister.

This year’s awards were expanded beyond the one Bar Pro Bono Award which has been presented to a barrister each year since 1997, in order to recognise the wider contribution barristers and chambers make to providing free legal advice and advocacy to the most vulnerable in society.

The award categories were:

• Young Pro Bono Barrister of the Year, sponsored by Place Campbell

• Junior Pro Bono Barrister of the Year, sponsored by Juriosity, the Legal Knowledge Network

• Pro Bono QC of the Year, sponsored by Judicial & Silk (formerly JSB Judicial)

• International Pro Bono Barrister of the Year

• Employed Pro Bono Barrister of the Year

• Pro Bono Chambers’ Staff Member of the Year, sponsored by the Legal Practice Management Association

• Pro Bono Innovation of the Year, sponsored by Lexis Nexis

• Pro Bono Chambers of the Year

• Lifetime Achievement in Pro Bono

The awards were hosted at the historic Fleet Street bank Child & Co on 24 October 2018.

Click here for Daria’s full interview with Counsel magazine.

Three Stone is delighted to announce we will be hosting a seminar on Recent Developments in Insolvency on 31st October, 2018.

David Mohyuddin QC will chair the event. Speakers include:

Sebastian Kokelaar: Officeholders & Legal Privilege Post Lemos

Stephen Baister: Mediation in an Insolvency Context

Emma Knight: A Short Update on Recent Insolvency Decisions

Full details may be found here.

Numbers for this seminar are limited, so please reserve a place at clerks@threestone.law.

We are delighted to announce that Stephen Baister, formerly Chief Bankruptcy Registrar of the High Court, has joined Chambers’ Mediation Group.

Stephen will act as a mediator primarily in insolvency, insolvency-related and company law cases but will consider appointments in other commercial law disputes where appropriate.

Stephen was appointed as a bankruptcy registrar of the High Court in 1996, serving as chief registrar from 2004 until his retirement in 2017. He continues to sit as a deputy Insolvency Judge in the High Court. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, an honorary Member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and an honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management of which he is also president. He was made an honorary bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 2017.

After the success of Three Stone’s inaugural seminar on 29th November 2016, we are delighted to announce that Stephen Lloyd (a Deputy Chancery Master) will chair our next seminar on topical issues in Private Client.  The programme is:

Andrew Cosedge: Cough Up or Get Out: grappling with issues of non-doms, residence and tax

Sebastian Kokelaar: Mistake after Pitt v Holt: business as usual?

Kerry Bornman: The Abode of Love and other curious chancery cases: a private client round up

Stephen Lloyd: A View from the Chancery Master’s Bench: a Deputy Master’s guide to practice and procedure

The seminar will last 1 hour with a brief Q&A session followed by a drinks reception. Registration from 6pm onwards for a 6.30pm start.

For CPD purposes, (1) the learning aim is to improve the attendees knowledge and understanding of current trends and important developments in private client work and (2) the learning objective is that the attendees will be able to demonstrate an improved level of competence, knowledge and performance in their core areas of practice.

Full details may be found here.

Numbers for this seminar are limited, so please reserve a place at clerks@threestone.law.

Feedback from the previous seminar included:

“Excellent, I hope to bring others from the firm next time.” 

 “I learnt a lot today”

“Excellent speakers, relevant and practical presentations & topics.”

The Lord Chancellor has announced that Professor Surya Subedi OBE is to be appointed Queen’s Counsel (honoris causa) on 13 February 2017. We offer him our warmest congratulations.

The announcement on the Government’s website (which may be found here) describes Professor Subedi as:

“…a distinguished academic who has made a major contribution to international law and human rights. He has published extensively in international law and human rights. He served for 5 years between 2010 and 2015 as a member of the Advisory Group on Human Rights to the British Foreign Secretary.

During his tenure as UN Special Rapporteur for human rights he produced 4 substantive reports published by the United Nations focussing on judicial, parliamentary, electoral, and land reform in Cambodia. A number of his recommendations were implemented by the government. Collectively, these 4 reports provided an analytical point of reference for democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the country and became a primary source of reference for human rights defenders, UN agencies, and donor agencies that continue to be drawn on today. The work he carried out as Special Rapporteur was undertaken in addition to his full-time job at his university in England. It is an appointment based on substantive knowledge and integrity of experts serving in their individual capacities.

He was awarded an OBE in 2004 for services to international law, and he has continued to make an exceptional contribution over a sustained period at the international level to develop international law and to advance human rights. He was admitted to the Bar of Nepal in 1981 and called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2007. He currently is Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds and a member of Three Stone Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn, London.”

James Couser has recently succeeded in Sands v Layton [2016] EWCA Civ 1189 in persuading the Court of Appeal that the correct interpretation of s 375(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 means that a Judge at first instance has jurisdiction to hear an application to review, rescind or vary an order made by another High Court Judge sitting on appeal. The Court of Appeal reviewed two conflicting decisions of the High Court and adopted James’s reasoning.

 

On 29 November 2016 David Lord QC will chair a seminar presented by members of Three Stone on topical issues in litigation. The speakers and topics are:

Francis Moraes: “Defending Illegality”

Kate Hallet: “Restraint of Petitions: The Practicalities”

Rupert Coe: “Commercial Common Sense and Bad Bargains”

Sandy Joseph: “Fraud Undoes Everything: Hayward v Zurich”

Simon Hunter: “Special Parties in Civil Litigation: Dealing with Litigants in Person”

The seminar will take place in the Large Pension Room, Gray’s Inn starting at 6.15pm. It is accredited for 1.5 hours of CPD.

Numbers for this seminar are limited.  If you would like to attend, please contact the clerks at clerks@threestone.law

Full details may be found here.

The 2017 edition of Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide has been published and we are delighted with the results. Members of chambers have been ranked as leading practitioners in the fields of commercial litigation, chancery, insolvency, professional negligence, partnership, competition law, offshore, insurance, public international law and real estate litigation.

In an article published in the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law Richard Nowinski  examines three key issues relating to Article 50 TEU: whether the UK government in exercising the Crown’s prerogative powers can give notice of withdrawal from the EU without seeking Parliamentary approval; the voting procedure within the EU on the treaty under which the UK will leave the EU; and whether the future relationship between the UK and EU will result in a “mixed agreement” requiring unanimity of all Member States.

A copy of the article may be found here.