Richard Lee, Amber Hobson and James O’Connor visited Northumbria University to host a Q&A event with this year’s Bar Course students. The event was well received and the students particularly enjoyed hearing from James, a former Northumbria M Law Exempting (Bar Course) student!
Amber Hobson writes an informative article on self-defence in cases involving charges of assault emergency worker. The article can be found here.
A masked teenager laughed as he filmed a frightened and very vulnerable woman being “terrorised” in her own home during shocking and despicable scenes of sadistic degradation. The defendant, Harvey Evans, was sent to a young offenders’ institution for five years by HHJ Thackray KC. He can be named after Judge Thackray made no reporting […]
Amber Hobson has today secured an acquittal after trial for a young man charged with Possession of class A drugs with intent to supply x2 (Heroin and Crack Cocaine). The trial was before Recorder Giuliani and lasted four days. The jury returned unanimous verdicts of Not Guilty. Well done Amber!
Amber Hobson represented a career foster carer with 12 years experience, accused of one count of common assault and a public order offence. The Defendant was said to have been verbally abusive to a child with whom her son had fallen out and thereafter grabbed her to the throat. The case involved cross examination of […]
On 25th May 2021 Amber Hobson attended Beverley Magistrates to represent a defendant who stood charged with criminal damage and common assault. The Defendant was an environmental protestor who had attended an energy plant to live stream his protest. The Defendant entered a guilty plea to the common assault and after seeing footage provided by […]
Amber Hobson defended Ms Gray in a sentencing hearing on the 11th for one offence of perverting the course of justice. The defendant had effectively hacked into her former partners Facebook messenger app and communicated with a decoy account of the vigilante group “Predator Exposure”, in order that they would attend and he would be […]
Amber M Hobson To mark this week being Transgender Awareness Week, Amber M Hobson of Wilberforce Chambers comments on the issues facing Transgender Defendants who do not have a Gender Recognition Certificate and face incarceration. As of 2018 HMPSS recorded that there were 139 prisoners identifying themselves as transgender within the custodial setting. Although the […]
Chambers wishes to congratulate Amber and Chloe as they come out of their unusual pupillages in style. They have now each qualified as barristers after working so diligently and successfully through pupillage and we are absolutely delighted to be in a position to finally welcome them as tenants and as our fellow members of Chambers. […]
Amber and Chloe are now accepting instructions in their own right as they embark on their second six in Chambers. They are undertaking work in crime, family and civil. Please speak to Phil or Hayley in Chambers if you want any information at all about their training to date and their practice areas. Wishing them […]
