Villiers - the Anglo/Scottish perspective

Heard by the Supreme Court in December 2019 with its judgment last July this case attracted much interest (or “lurid publicity” as per Mr Justice Mostyn in his judgement this week) as it unfolded.  Mr Villiers acting in person applied to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal the order made by Parker J on 8 July 2016 [2016 EWHC 668 (Fam [2017]) 1 FLR 1083].  The Bar Pro Bono Unit assigned to him the services of Michael Horton and Alexander Laing who represented him for free  in his appeals to both the Court of Appeal (Villers v Villers [2018] EWCA Civ 1120) and Supreme Court.  Lord Wilson rightly commended them for the work undertaken on Mr Villiers’ behalf.  Not only was the ‘access to justice for all’ appealing to altruistic members of the profession those technical constitutional colleagues amongst us focused the fact that the Lord Chancellor was given permission to intervene.

Emma Villiers’ legal team need no introduction ~ Pennington Manches Cooper LLP instructing Tim Scott QC Alexis Campbell QC and Gayatri Sarathy south of the boarder and as you...

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