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Nicholas Griffin KC

King's counsel

Nicholas Griffin KC specialises in criminal and public law and has worked on major public inquiries over the last 15 years. He is chairman of the Bar Council Surveillance and Privacy Working Group, although this article is written in a personal capacity. He practises at 5 Paper Buildings (www.5pb.co.uk)

King's counsel

Nicholas Griffin KC specialises in criminal and public law and has worked on major public inquiries over the last 15 years. He is chairman of the Bar Council Surveillance and Privacy Working Group, although this article is written in a personal capacity. He practises at 5 Paper Buildings (www.5pb.co.uk)

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

Corporate facilitation of tax evasion: the new frontier. The second & final part of an exclusive analysis by QEB Hollis Whiteman Chambers

Corporate facilitation of tax evasion: the new frontier. A special two-part analysis by QEB Hollis Whiteman Chambers

Nicholas Griffin QC considers the CJEU Watson decision on UK surveillance law

 

Nicholas Griffin QC explores the scope & approach of the Pitchford Inquiry into undercover policing

Nicholas Griffin QC considers the future of the Goddard Inquiry into child sexual abuse

Overriding lawyer-client & confidential communications is incompatible with the rule of law, as Nicholas Griffin QC, Robert O’Sullivan QC & Gordon Nardell QC explain

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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