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Since 1926 Broadway House Chambers has provided Yorkshire with the highest levels of service in the fields of advocacy and legal advice. Today there are over 50 members offering expertise in crime and family law, employment and discrimination law, immigration, personal injury and environmental law. Chambers have premises in Bank Street, Bradford and in Park Square, Leeds both situated two minutes walk from the respective Combined Court Centres. Each location provides first class support facilities and meetings rooms. There are video conferencing facilities at the Bradford premises. Additionally chambers is fully committed to the use of information technology and e-communication, including email and telephone-conferencing to promote the accessibility of its barristers to clients throughout the UK. Tenants have access to an excellent updated library (paper and electronic). Members regularly practise throughout the north of England and often further afield. Please see the “Practice Teams” for details of the areas of work and the Barristers profiles for individual expertise. The maturity of Chambers is illustrated by the number of members who sit as Recorders and as Employment and Immigration Judges, Chairmen of the Mental Health Review Tribunals and Legal Advisors to the General Medical Council and Police Disciplinary Panels. Chambers is committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of its work and has been awarded the Legal Services Commission’s ‘Quality Mark’.
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Sharon Shoesmith is free to appeal her failed attempt to overturn her sacking at the height of the Baby Peter affair, after a judge issued a scathing criticism of the conduct of former children's secretary Ed Balls, and threw out all but a fraction of his claims for legal costs. ::: BBC ::: Times (registration) ::: Guardian
2 Sep 2010 07:27:05 GMT
One of the architects of the UK's Community Payback scheme - which the coalition wants to use increasingly as an alternative to prison - has admitted it has become a 'holiday camp'. ::: Daily Mail ::: Express
2 Sep 2010 07:25:19 GMT
The full judgment is finally available on a case relating to the retention of DNA profiles and fingerprints by the police - R (C) v Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis [2010] WLR (D) 193. ::: UK Human Rights Blog
2 Sep 2010 07:25:25 GMT
How do we keep judges out of politics? The UK Supreme Court president, Lord Phillips has said that "unelected judges are better than elected judges". ::: Standpoint
2 Sep 2010 07:05:31 GMT
The abuse that migrant domestic workers suffer at the hands of their employers in Britain has received considerable publicity recently - with good reason. ::: Guardian
2 Sep 2010 07:25:35 GMT
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