Clerk Details
- Clerk Name: Robert Leonard
- Clerk Telephone: 0330 332 0773
- Clerk Email: [email protected]
Family
Recent Public Law cases include:
- Representing mother involving allegations of rape on a 4yr old by a 12 year old (11 day hearing)
- Physical abuse, neglect and, more recently, factitious illness
- A case involving serious NAI injuries to a baby. Complex medical issues resulting in numerous medical experts giving conflicting opinions (20 day hearing)
- Case involving serious neglect and sexual abuse involving disabled parents (26 day hearing)
- Hearing involving a serious factitious illness case heard in the High Court (8 day hearing)
- Section 38(6) application representing long term drug/alcohol user (7 day hearing)
- Represent a mother whose already disabled child suffered acute subdural haemorrhages and the central issues resulting in a finding of fact hearing to decide the range of possibilities on how the injuries were caused. Complex medical evidence hearing necessary (9 day hearing)
- G and H (welfare of the children) [2021] EWFC B21 (06 April 2021)
- OCC v P [2020] EWFC B48 (21 October 2020
- OCC v P [2020] EWFC B47 (01 June 2020)
Recent Private Law cases involve:
- Private law residence, contact and removal out of the jurisdiction
- Involved in cases with particular cultural and religious aspects. An example of such a case involving Kurdistan refugees had a final hearing (12 day hearing)
- Complex case involved a convicted murderer seeking contact with child in the High Court before Correride J
- Dealt with child aged 14 in a dispute between parents running for 10 years resulting on complex issues of education, residence and relocation before Paulfey J
- Instructed by a Pakistani mother dealing with an allegation of serious domestic violence requiring a fact find hearing and then proceeded to deal with relocation within the UK (5 day hearing)
- Lecture given on ‘Removal out of Jurisdiction’ after final hearing lasting 4 days in High Court.
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3PB crime and regulatory barrister Rebecca McKnight has written on the new guidelines for strangulation or suffocation/ racially or religiously aggravated strangulation or suffocation. The new sentencing guidelines will come into force on 1st January 2025.The data in this area is relatively limited given the offences only came into force on 7 June 2022 but practitioners will know that it is becoming increasingly common to see a charge of strangulation or suffocation. There was a...
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Welcome to 3PB’s final Employment and Discrimination Law newsletter for 2024. Edited by Jo Laxton, it features analysis from Ben Amunwa, Alex Leonhardt and Emma Greening on the following cases:
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- Connor v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [2024] EAT 175
- Shakil v Samons Limited [2024] EAT 192
- L v The Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [2024] UKFTT 001044 (TC)
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