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Chambers of Mark Ellison QC

1-2 LAURENCE POUNTNEY HILL, LONDON, EC4R 0EU, ENGLAND
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Work 020 7933 8855
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Fax 020 7929 3732
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858 LONDON CITY
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www.qebholliswhiteman.co.uk
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Consumer and product liability

Within Consumer and product liability, tier 5

At QEB Hollis Whiteman, David Groome and Ari Alibhai are specialists in trading standards consumer law issues.

Crime

Within Crime, QEB Hollis Whiteman (Chambers of Mark Ellison QC) is a second tier firm,

QEB Hollis Whiteman has ‘a huge array of excellent advocates from the most junior upwards’. William Boyce QC has ‘all the skills one would expect from a talented silk, with none of the attitude’, Rebecca Poulet QC has ‘the ability to almost immediately inspire confidence and maintain it’, and David Jeremy QCfocuses on what really matters in a case’. Anthony Glass QC is also recommended. Linda Strudwick, Adrian Darbishire, Paul Raudnitz, and Benn Maguire are among the rated juniors, with Kerry Broome also drawing praise for her ‘excellent grasp of the issues – there is no doubt she has an excellent future ahead of her’.

Fraud: crime (including money laundering and asset forfeiture)

Within Fraud: crime (including money laundering and asset forfeiture), QEB Hollis Whiteman (Chambers of Mark Ellison QC) is a first tier firm,

QEB Hollis Whiteman provides ‘uniformly high quality across a range of seniority’, with Anthony Glass QC utilised extensively on complex, high-value fraud cases. William Boyce QC, Mark Ellison QC and Peter Finnigan QC are also recommended. Since obtaining the status of silk, Sean Larkin QChas gone from strength to strength’. Of the juniors, Selva Ramasamy is ‘a consummate jury advocate with an extremely engaging manner’, Adrian Darbishire has ‘incisive intelligence and quickly gets to the heart of the matter’, and Bridget Petherbridge is ‘one of the few outstanding criminal counsel of her call’. Paul Raudnitz is ‘a silk in the making’.

Health and safety

Within Health and safety Health and safety – Leading Juniors

Professional discipline and regulatory law (including police law)

Within Professional discipline and regulatory law (including police law), QEB Hollis Whiteman (Chambers of Mark Ellison QC) is a second tier firm,

With ‘nearly unparalleled strength and depth in professional discipline and regulatory law’, leading barristers at QEB Hollis Whiteman include the ‘strongRebecca Poulet QC and Jeremy Donne QC. At junior level, Mark Aldred and the ‘incredibly brightSelva Ramasamy are highly recommended. Sarah Plaschkes QC made silk in 2011.

Tax: corporate and VAT

Within Tax: corporate and VAT Tax: corporate – Leading Silks


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    In Nzinga Maswaku v Westminster City Council [2012] EWCA Civ 669 the Court of Appeal clarified that in offering a homeless person with alternative temporary accommodation the local authority is obliged to point that if the offer is refused it has discharged its Part VII duties under the Housing Act 1996.
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  • COUNCIL TAX

    In Harrow LBC v Ayiku [2012] EWHC 1200 (Admin) Sales J held that the word “or” in the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) Order 1992, art 3 Class N, had a disjunctive meaning, therefore it was sufficient for the non-British spouse of a foreign student to satisfy one or other of the two conditions, namely being prevented from taking paid employment or being prevented from claiming benefits, in order to qualify as a “relevant person” who was exempted from liability to pay council tax.
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  • QUEEN’S SPEECH

    Bills already introduced pursuant to the Queen’s Speech on 9 May 2012 include Local Government Finance Bill and Electoral Registration and Administration Bill, both accompanied by Explanatory Notes, which in each case address ECHR compatibility.
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  • Standards

    In R (Calver) v Adjudication Panel for Wales [2012] EWHC 1172 (Admin) Mr Calver was a member of Manorbier Community Council who successfully challenged the decision of the Panel to dismiss his appeal against a decision by Prembrokeshire County Council Standards Committee censuring him for a number of comments or blogs posted by him on a website he owned and controlled.
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  • Public Sector Equality Duty (“PSED”)

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  • Public Sector Equality Duty

    Surrey County Council conducted a review of its Library Service. This culminated in a Report to the Council’s Cabinet. The Recommendations in the Report included that there should be consultation about a community-partnership approach at selected Libraries.
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  • Judicial Review

    The Judgment of Lindblom J in The Manydown Co Ltd v Basingstoke and Deane BC [2012] EWHC 977 (Admin) repays attention. The Claimant sought to challenge by judicial review 2 decisions of the Council: (1) the Council’s refusal to reconsider its position on the development of a site that it owns (and is the subject matter of a Joint Development Partnership Agreement with the Claimant); and (2) a decision of the Council’s Cabinet approving a selection of sites for development which did not include this site.
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  • The Health and Social Care Act 2012: impact on adult social services

    After its torrid passage through Parliament, the Health and Social Care Bill received Royal Assent on 27 March 2012. The Act deals principally with healthcare reform, but it also contains some amendments to the legislative framework for social care. It will come into force on a day yet to be appointed by the Secretary of State.
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  • Immigration update May 2012

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