Aidan Briggs

Barrister

Aidan Briggs, barrister, Ely Place Chambers (abriggs@elyplace.com; www.elyplace.com)

Barrister

Aidan Briggs, barrister, Ely Place Chambers (abriggs@elyplace.com; www.elyplace.com)

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Has the High Court clarified the law of cattle trespass, asks Aidan Briggs

Aidan Briggs explains why donatio mortis causa is an exception to nearly every rule

Business support may be the banks' next headache, says Aidan Briggs

The Makro case throws a business rates loophole wide open, says Aidan Briggs

Craig Barlow & Aidan Briggs consider Bonhoeffer & hearsay evidence in disciplinary proceedings

When can non-domestic rate demands be challenged ask Aidan Briggs
& Craig Barlow

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Real estate dispute resolution team welcomes newly qualified solicitor

Morr & Co—Dennis Phillips

International private client team appoints expert in Spanish law

NLJ Career Profile: Stefan Borson, McCarthy Denning

Stefan Borson, football finance expert head of sport at McCarthy Denning, discusses returning to the law digging into the stories behind the scenes

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NLJ this week: Cyber drills build real-world resilience

Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week

NLJ this week: Fairness from day one

In this week's NLJ, Robert Hargreaves and Lily Johnston of York St John University examine the Employment Rights Bill 2024–25, which abolishes the two-year qualifying period for unfair-dismissal claims

NLJ this week: When procedure is power

Writing in NLJ this week, Manvir Kaur Grewal of Corker Binning analyses the collapse of R v Óg Ó hAnnaidh, where a terrorism charge failed because prosecutors lacked statutory consent. The case, she argues, highlights how procedural safeguards—time limits, consent requirements and institutional checks—define lawful state power

NLJ this week: Jury still trusted—Crown Court study revisited

Michael Zander KC, emeritus professor at LSE, revisits his long-forgotten Crown Court Study (1993), which surveyed 22,000 participants across 3,000 cases, in the first of a two-part series for NLJ

NLJ this week: AI copyright clash

Getty Images v Stability AI Ltd [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) was a landmark test of how UK law applies to AI training—but does it leave key questions unanswered, asks Emma Kennaugh-Gallagher of Mewburn Ellis in NLJ this week

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