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The Child Sex Abuse Enquiry: One Family’s Story
The Jimmy Savile scandal – involving widespread sexual abuse of many children ‘in plain sight’ – was a landmark event that acted as a wake-up call to the authorities. The result
was the setting up in March 2015 of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (“IICSA”) as a statutory inquiry so as to make recommendations to ensure the best possible
protection for children in the future. Leverets guided the Janner family through all of IICSA’s harrowing processes, advising on how best to protect their family and their father’s reputation. This required not only forensic rigour but sensitivity and empathy at a time when family members were grieving over his death.
Case Dismissed – Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company
Leverets successfully acted for Camila Batmangheldijh in the attempt by the Official Receiver to disqualify her as a de facto company director along with the other members of the Kids Company’s Trustee Board. In this landmark case Mrs Justice Falk held “disqualification was not warranted against any of the Trustees” as well as ruling that Camila Batmanghelidjh was not even a director. The Defendants maintained that it was unfounded allegations of sexual abuse during July 2015 which had sealed the charity’s fate.
Make your wishes known – Lasting Powers of Attorney
Lasting Powers of Attorney The recent change to the law that presumes you wish to donate your organs unless you have opted out, is a timely reminder that everyone should make their wishes known in the event of death, or incapacity. The obvious...
Your Barrister will see you now (without a Solicitor!)
Direct access barristers - What has changed? Unless you have been unfortunate enough to end up in court, most people’s image of a Barrister has been through the prism of Rumpole of The Bailey, Kavanagh QC, or Silks. For programme-makers, the...