Jonathan Maskew: Today I’m with Stephen Harvey QC, Good morning, Stephen. Stephen Harvey QC: Morning, Jonathan. Jonathan Maskew: Everyone is keen to hear from of the country’s leading QCs about your perception of how we are currently positioned with Direct …
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I’ve been asked a lot of questions about vaping in the work place. As you probably know vaping is the new phenomenon that smokers have turned to in an effort to be able to give up on smoking. It is …
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-navnWEm8fo Transcript: Hello, I am Isabelle Parasram, an employment law specialist working for ShenSmith Barristers. Hopefully, if you’ve got an employment law query, your case will be referred to me or somebody like me. I’ll be able to give …
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIl9nhWpgIU?rel=0]Transcript:I am Sunil Rupasinha. I was called to the bar in 1983.I have practised as a criminal barrister at the London Bar for most of that time. I have prosecuted and defended so I have appeared in all sorts …
Read MoreSunil Rupasinha, independent road traffic barrister, clerked by ShenSmith Barristers
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nup-7khTY4Y?rel=0]Transcript:The law relating to “Drug Driving” is one which prohibits an individual from driving whilst under the influence of drink or drugs. Drugs are defined as any intoxicant other than alcohol. The offence under section 4 of the 1988 Road Traffic …
Read MoreNew Drug Drive Legislation: 2 March 2015, with Sunil Rupasinha
If you go to a solicitor, and the solicitor wants to instruct a barrister on your behalf, then you are the lay client, you are the one who is paying for the service; you are perfectly entitled to say I want …
Isn’t all legal advice expensive? Well, you might be surprised, because solicitors have very high costs. After all, they have high street offices, they have to pay rates and business rates, they have to pay bills, they have to staff …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJkzQ24gLbMTranscript:Sunil Rupasinha:I’ve spent 25 years at the criminal bar in London in traditional sets of chambers. Traditional sets of chambers are based in the Inns of Court in central London. And typically they consist of a large number of barristers, …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpAITIQK5lg?rel=0] So, I’ve been asked to tell you another “loophole” story. I was asked to defend a man who had been in a road traffic accident shortly after midnight. The accident had occurred in North London. There were quite …