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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 1d

Lucy will deliver the webinar alongside @gmiau.bsky.social's Decla Palmer.

Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 1d

Garden Court North's Lucy Mair will speak at @freemovement.bsky.social's webinar on 29 October, exploring legal & practical considerations in submitting entry clearance applications for individuals from Gaza seeking to join relatives in the UK.

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Free Movement: Gaza applications and appeals - Garden Court North Chambers

Garden Court North's Lucy Mair will be speaking at Free Movement's webinar about Gazan family reunion cases on 29 October 2025.

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 5d

Garden Court North's Camille Warren represented Leo Barber's family during the inquest, instructed by Alice See and Navjot Kaur Kahlon of GT Stewart Solicitors.

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Inquest into self-inflicted death of 16-year-old Leo Barber finds missed opportunity by NHS mental health services - Garden Court North Chambers

Garden Court North's Camille Warren represented Leo Barber's family during the inquest into his self-inflicted death.

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 6d

These results reflect our unwavering commitment to publicly funded work, representing to those disadvantaged by discrimination and inequality, challenging the state, & fighting for justice.

A huge thank you to all referees who took the time to share their experiences working alongside our members.

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 6d

🎉 Garden Court North is delighted to be ranked as a Top Tier Set by Legal 500 for 2026 🎉

🥇 Ranked Top Tier across four practice areas.
🏅 'Leading' & 'Recommended' Set rankings in COP and crime.
👥 42 members ranked across 6 areas of law, including 3 leading silks and 18 leading juniors.

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 7d

Garden Court North is delighted to announce that Misha Alexandra Nayak-Oliver and Bethany Currie have accepted invitations to join Chambers following successful completion of pupillage.

Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 7d

(2/3) The conference brought together legal practitioners, NGOs, campaigners, media, academics & those with lived experience for six varied panels, book-ended by opening and closing speeches from Daniel Trilling (author & journalist for
@theguardian.com & Julia Savage (@asylummatters.bsky.social).

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 7d

(3/3) Garden Court North's Helen Foot and Elizabeth Mottershaw chaired & spoke across multiple sessions, including the 'looking ahead' & 'reporting, detention & removal' panels.

A special thanks to everyone who attended or spoke, Clyde & Co for hosting, Nicola Burgess & Alex Blair for organising.

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 7d

(1/3) Yesterday saw Garden Court North & @gmiau.bsky.social come together to host the inaugural North-West Migrants' Rights Conference, a day of humanising, compassionate rhetoric amid such hostility around immigration.

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 7d

Garden Court North's Elizabeth Mottershaw on the Housing, Support & Destitution panel.

GCN co-hosted the Migrants' Rights Conference alongside GMIAU.

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 8d

Panel 1: Housing, support + destitution🏡.

Great to hear from all speakers on: NRPF, homelessness + the political climate.

We have also been lucky to hear from those with lived experience sharing their moving stories of resilience, and the need for change to the housing/hotels accommodation model.

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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 8d

Our Migrants' Rights Conference is underway!

It's great to have Daniel Trilling with us, sharing the context behind why it's so important that we have come together today.

We’ll be sharing more throughout the day…

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 13d

@mirahammad.bsky.social and Bethany were instructed by Nicola Hall of Robert Lizar Solicitors, appearing alongside Garden Court North's associate member Hamish McCallum, and Maria L., Sarah-Jane Ewart and Michelle Harris of One Pump Court Chambers.

Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 13d

Garden Court North's Mira Hammad and Bethany Currie secured unanimous acquittals for clients who participated in a highly publicised protest action at the Grand National Race in 2023.

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Mira Hammad and Bethany Currie secure unanimous acquittals for Grand National protestors - Garden Court North Chambers

Garden Court North’s Mira Hammad and Bethany Currie secured unanimous acquittals for the protesters from Animal Rising.

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 14d

Coverage from The Mirror: www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

Ex-England captain in battle over DWP claims for 'industrial' head injuries

Dave Watson has probable Alzheimer’s and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE - his legal team say his DWP claims are a test case for generations of footballers.

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 14d

Coverage from @telegraphnews.bsky.social: www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

‘You are losing your best friend’: ‘Forgotten’ England captain Dave Watson’s dementia battle

A career spent heading the ball as an aerial colossus for club and country has come with a heavy toll

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 14d

In the Upper Tribunal next week, GCN's @tomroyston.bsky.social is representing ex-England football captain David Watson in his legal fight for Alzheimer's and CTE to be recognised as industrial diseases.

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Ex-England captain's legal fight for toll on his health

Former England football captain David Watson is fighting to have his neurological condition recognised as the result of head injuries during his career.

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 14d

Garden Court North’s Alexander McColl has secured acquittals for his three clients in one of the first trials for the new offence of ‘Being Equipped for Locking On’ in the UK.

More about the case and offence below.

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‘Drax 15’ acquitted as ‘being equipped for locking on’ trial collapses - Garden Court North Chambers

Garden Court North’s Alexander McColl secured landmark acquittals for his three clients, part of the 'Drax 15' protestors.

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Nicola Brook @nicolabrookbjc.bsky.social · 16d

Southport Inquiry Day 10. Today the inquiry will hear evidence from DCI Jason Pye from Merseyside Police as he explains what happened in the attack and the arrest and investigation of the perpetrator.
@bjcsolicitors.bsky.social represent 3 adult survivors
#SouthportInquiry

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rightsnet @rightsnet.org.uk · 19d

High Court quashes local authority’s council tax reduction scheme

@tomroyston.bsky.social @gcnchambers.bsky.social @leigh-day.bsky.social

www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68257

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 19d

Tom led Henderson Chambers’ Jack Castle, instructed by Leigh Day’s Carolin Ott and Sarah Crowe.

Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 19d

Garden Court North's @tomroyston.bsky.social represented the two women, who earlier today won their High Court judicial review against Trafford Council's unlawful and discriminatory tax reduction scheme, which left them and many other residents with massive bills.

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Trafford Council’s tax reduction scheme quashed following High Court legal challenge - Garden Court North Chambers

Two women have today won their judicial review against Trafford Council's unlawful tax reduction scheme in the High Court.

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Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 19d

(2/5) The day involved a case law update by Garden Court North's Kate Stone, a Hillsborough Law update by pete weatherby kc, and a dynamic breakdown of practicalities of inquests and the Coroners' Bench Book by Anna Morris KC, Leanne Devine and Gemma Vine.

Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 19d

(3/5) Rachel Francis from Claiming Space delivered a thought-provoking session on vicarious trauma later in the afternoon, before an exclusive screening of INQUEST's powerful documentary 'The UK is Not Innocent' closed out the conference.

Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 19d

(4/5) It chronicles @inquest-org.bsky.social's journey investigating the state-related deaths of Hillsborough, Grenfell, & many other tragedies, with moving interviews from the bereaved, @debcoles13.bsky.social, Leslie Thomas KC, & the late Benjamin Zephaniah's poem 'The One Minutes of Silence'.

Garden Court North Chambers @gcnchambers.bsky.social · 19d

(5/5) A huge thanks to everyone for coming - and congratulations to the winning team of the ever-competitive Northern Quiz, written by Stephanie Hill and Gemma Vine, quizmastered by Alex Blair.