Latest News and Events from our Barristers and Chambers

15 New Bridge Street will support the action recommended by the CBA in relation to the new Advocates Graduated Fees Scheme. Please click the link to read the full announcement from the CBA. Announcement for CBA Members.

John Waller secured the unanimous acquittal of his client who had been charged with a serious aggravated burglary. Despite a very strong prosecution case John was able to persuade the jury that there was considerable doubt. The prosecution alleged that the client was one of four men (some of...

The issue of whether a defendant may advance self-defence on a charge of Obstruct PC (contrary to s.89(2) Police Act), in circumstances where the officer is acting within their duty, has long been an area of significant legal ambiguity and uncertainty. This state of affairs has stemmed from an...

Ruby Selva appeared at the Colchester Court Martial representing a client charged with a sexual offence against a minor. The case involved detailed cross examination of the minor and also associated adult witnesses. The case was sensitively but firmly put. At the conclusion of the Prosecution case she successfully...

After a week long trial before the Recorder of Chelmsford, Jeremy Lynn and Kyri Argyropolous have secured the acquittal of a father and son from a travelling family who were accused of Possessing a Firearm with Intent, Affray, Criminal Damage and Assault. The Prosecution case was that the son...

Michael Hillman has secured the acquittal of a defendant who had gone missing from a psychiatric unit where he had been sectioned. He was accused of trying to abduct two girls aged 7 and 10  whilst fashioning a crack pipe from a bottle of Courvoisier. He was unanimously acquitted...

15 New Bridge Street Chambers is delighted to announce the appointment of Martin Rutherford QC as Head of Chambers. He succeeds David Aaronberg QC, who has been sworn in as a Circuit Judge.

Ruby Selva secured a unanimous acquittal in under 20 minutes following a trial at Southwark Crown Court. Her client was charged with sexual offences against a child when he was a child himself now facing trial as an adult. Her client’s defence was that the allegations were complete fabrications motivated...