CHAMBERS WELCOMES NEW TENANT

We are delighted to anounce that William Lowe QC has accepted an invitation to join Chambers.

Since taking silk William Lowe QC has appeared in serious cases right across the spectrum of criminal offences. From murder and corporate manslaughter to Health and Safety offences and serious fraud.

He also has considerable experience in the fields of clinical negligence and personal injury, which includes industrial disease work, in particular asbestos related diseases resulting from exposure in shipbuilding and other industrial settings.

 

He will also continue to practise from Paradise Chambers in Leeds.

SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE OF WIFE IN TERRORIST LIQUID BOMB PLOT

Baroness Kennedy QC, and Faisal Saifee as junior counsel, have secured the acquittal of Cossor Ali on terror charges.

The wife of convicted terrorist Ahmed Abdullah Ali was acquitted by the unanimous verdict of a jury at Inner London Crown Court, after a trial lasting three weeks in which she was represented by Faisal Saifee.

 

Cossor Ali was arrested in 2006 when police uncovered the terrorist plot to blow up trans-atlantic aircraft using liquid explosives. She was prosecuted on charges under the Terrorism Act 2000, which alleged that she had information about her husband's plans to commit acts of mass murder but had failed to disclose that information to the authorities.

 

However, the case presented for Mrs Ali, after painstaking work undertaken by the defence team, left the jury entirely unconvinced by the evidence for the prosecution. All 12 jurors found the defendant not guilty and accepted that she had known nothing of her husband's plans.

 

Faisal Saifee has represented Mrs Ali throughout her long ordeal - she had to wait until after the conclusion of Ahmed Ali's trial in September 2009, for her chance to clear her name.